weekend Step Stool

[Mike Allen1010]

This Walnut stepstool was a fun weekend project. It's from fine woodworking book on "small projects". Super easy to do with all hand tools and the angled, through wedged M&T joints were fun opportunity to use your chisels to work on that "mortise precision". I'm super bad at geometry but I figured out by the end of this project all the angles are 10 degrees – just set the bevel gauge at the beginning of the project and go from there.

Cheers, Mike


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[Mel Fulks]

Always liked the the train tunnels on those ! I was shocked at an early age to see someone sit on a train tunnel.

[Ron Citerone]

Real nice! That walnut really fits the project.

[Edward Weber]

The stool looks nice but I can't get past the wedges in the top running parallel to the grain.
JMO

[Mike Allen1010]

The stool looks nice but I can't get past the wedges in the top running parallel to the grain.
JMO

You’re totally right Ed- wedges on top should have gone the other way- sorry my bad! At least I got them right for horizontal stretcher-side M&T.