Rustic Stool

  • Hey Guest, Early bird pricing on the Summer Moot (29th July - 10th August) available until April 6th, we'd love you to come. PLEASE CLICK HERE to early bird price and get more information.

Muddypaws

Full Member
Jan 23, 2009
1,094
313
Southampton
Today I finished making this rustic stool.

Rustic stool by Alan Muddypaws, on Flickr

Rustic stool 2 by Alan Muddypaws, on Flickr

The legs are ash - these I turned on the pole lathe some time ago, when I had some straight grained logs, with a view to making a stool one day. I was hoping to get a larger hardwood log, that I could split a suitable sized slab from, to make the stool top. But I never seemed to find that log, so instead I made a softwood top, by gluing up some 38x63mm CLS timber.
I used my bandsaw to rough out the 10 inch circular shape, but all the finishing was done with hand tools. Because the legs were already turned, and I envisaged a thinner hardwood top, the round tenons were not long enough to come through the stool top to be wedged. So I drilled blind holes, and fox wedged the legs into them. It's had a couple of coats of Danish oil, and will probably take a couple more.

Not exactly fine furniture, but good enough to raise my bum a little off the floor when sitting outside and whittling.
Thanks for looking.
 

BCUK Shop

We have a a number of knives, T-Shirts and other items for sale.

SHOP HERE