Shortening Bar Stools

[garys]

I shortened the legs on the shop stool I use in my woodworking shop. I simply clamped a stop to the crosscut sled to set up the amount I wanted off the legs. Then just lay each leg against the stop and cut. It takes the same amount off each leg in seconds and the stool stands flat on the floor again only shorter.

[Hobbyman2]

After reviewing the suggestions here and on couple of other sites I decided to use this method. I saw this on a YouTube video.

The stools each have 4 legs and she wanted 3" taken off. I've never attempted a project like this before. So I searched around on the internet and found a link to someone who had a idea that I could copy and I thought it would do the job.

I cut a couple of pieces of scrap pw to 3" by 7" making sure the edges were square. I put them against the legs to be trimmed and by trial and error cut shims so the sides of my jig would be square to the stool legs. When I was happy with the fit I attached them with DST. Then I clamped the jig to a chair leg and used the top surface of the pw as a guild and trimmed the 3" off by hand with a pull saw. Then I clamped a piece of scrap to the cut leg and moved the jig to leg number 2. The front and back legs were different so I needed different shims. Before cutting I used painters tape to cut down and splintering when the saw exited the cut.

This process worked really well. Thanks for looking.
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Good job.

Did you put the taper back on the bottom of the legs?

[JPG]

Yes it can be a bit tricky with sloping(non-vertical) legs.

I assume 4 legs.

Not sure a power saw is the best tool.

How much shorter and which stool?

[dusty]

After reviewing the suggestions here and on couple of other sites I decided to use this method. I saw this on a YouTube video.

The stools each have 4 legs and she wanted 3" taken off. I've never attempted a project like this before. So I searched around on the internet and found a link to someone who had a idea that I could copy and I thought it would do the job.

I cut a couple of pieces of scrap pw to 3" by 7" making sure the edges were square. I put them against the legs to be trimmed and by trial and error cut shims so the sides of my jig would be square to the stool legs. When I was happy with the fit I attached them with DST. Then I clamped the jig to a chair leg and used the top surface of the pw as a guild and trimmed the 3" off by hand with a pull saw. Then I clamped a piece of scrap to the cut leg and moved the jig to leg number 2. The front and back legs were different so I needed different shims. Before cutting I used painters tape to cut down and splintering when the saw exited the cut.

This process worked really well. Thanks for looking.
bar stool AS 01.jpgbar stool AS 02.jpgbar stool AS 00.jpgbar stool AS 03.jpgbar stool AS 04.jpg

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Good job.

Did you put the taper back on the bottom of the legs?

Given the way he cut the legs, would they not already be tapered???

[JPG]

Given the way he cut the legs, would they not already be tapered???

I think so!

Critical is insuring the cut off legs are propped up the correct amount.

[rpd]

Note , this is an old thread from 2015 that was revived by new member murmarsta in his first and only post so far, No mention of owning a Shopsmith and it contains a link to a commercial web site in Australia. Not sure but is smells like spam to me.

[Hobbyman2]

it looked to me like the wedge was used to square the leg so the clamps would hold the guide blocks,, too bad it was a old thread,,, it would have been interesting to see how he would have added the tapers.