I use a kitchen stool as a side table. It is just a cheap one I’ve had forever and I had a little maple and walnut left over from other projects, so decided to make a nicer replacement. I’ve done a couple little stools to figure out chair-making techniques and I may try my hand at a back-chair sometime soon. This mostly followed the techniques Christopher Schwarz demonstrates in his books and videos.
This came out fairly well. I started to split the seat when testing the leg tenons, so I put a butterfly in the top and the bottom. The stools I’ve made before had softer wood for the seat, and I learned I need to be more careful with a walnut seat. I did a better job getting the mortises in the seat drilled and reamed at consistent angles. I was a little off drilling the mortises for the stretchers, so it took some whittling to get everything to go together properly. I used epoxy to glue everything together. I just put a coat of wax on it and I’ll put another on in a week or two and call it good.
This was a fun and relatively quick project, which was kind of nice to have since we’ve been stuck inside with the rain a bunch this month.
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After:
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