11-25-2020, 01:12 AM
Hi All. Hope you're staying safe wherever you are in the world. Though I know that task is getting harder in some corners of the world at the moment.
I recently finished a small stool made to accompany a dressing table I made about a year ago. It's mostly hand tool work from rough sawn Tasmanian Oak. Stock prepared by hand, joinery work by hand. Router employed for doing the edge chamfers and roughly forming the bum curve in the seat using a curved sled. The roughly formed bum curve was then smoothed with a card scraper which was way more effective that I had anticipated. I hardly had to touch it with sandpaper in the end. The seat floats above the legs about 20mm, or 0.7874 inches
I started this one during our covid isolation (around April/May) then work life got very hectic after isolation and quite a few weekend shop sessions were lost, but finally I got it done and put into service weekend just gone.
What I learned from this build was that there's as much work in a stool as there is a dining table. So if given the choice definitely choose the dining table. But if you need a stool and not a dining table, then you just have to grin and bear it.
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I recently finished a small stool made to accompany a dressing table I made about a year ago. It's mostly hand tool work from rough sawn Tasmanian Oak. Stock prepared by hand, joinery work by hand. Router employed for doing the edge chamfers and roughly forming the bum curve in the seat using a curved sled. The roughly formed bum curve was then smoothed with a card scraper which was way more effective that I had anticipated. I hardly had to touch it with sandpaper in the end. The seat floats above the legs about 20mm, or 0.7874 inches
I started this one during our covid isolation (around April/May) then work life got very hectic after isolation and quite a few weekend shop sessions were lost, but finally I got it done and put into service weekend just gone.
What I learned from this build was that there's as much work in a stool as there is a dining table. So if given the choice definitely choose the dining table. But if you need a stool and not a dining table, then you just have to grin and bear it.
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