Project Information
Here is the step stool I mentioned designing in another post.
I designed it for my daughter to reach the sink in the bathroom.
It's made from Santos Mahogany and Peruvian Walnut. No fancy joinery just 24 1 3/4" long screws
with the heads plugged the the opposite colored wood. I didn't ever want this to work loose, so glued
and screwed.
The steps are both 6" heigh. The only part I was worried about was it breaking at the inside corner at the first step, right in the middle. The third picture shows my solution so that it will never break. I added a spline lengthwise. I cut this by clamping the completed stool to the tablesaw fence and raising the blade up to the depth I wanted. Then cut the spline by setting my compass to 5" (the radius of my 10" blade) and marked the spline and cut it out.
Total time about 4 hours over two days.
I designed it for my daughter to reach the sink in the bathroom.
It's made from Santos Mahogany and Peruvian Walnut. No fancy joinery just 24 1 3/4" long screws
with the heads plugged the the opposite colored wood. I didn't ever want this to work loose, so glued
and screwed.
The steps are both 6" heigh. The only part I was worried about was it breaking at the inside corner at the first step, right in the middle. The third picture shows my solution so that it will never break. I added a spline lengthwise. I cut this by clamping the completed stool to the tablesaw fence and raising the blade up to the depth I wanted. Then cut the spline by setting my compass to 5" (the radius of my 10" blade) and marked the spline and cut it out.
Total time about 4 hours over two days.