Three-leg high chair / stool

[nuhobby]

In progress!

Generally I'm following a plan from Christopher Schwarz's "Anarchist's Design Book", but altering things a bit.
For joinery holes in the legs and rungs, he uses a super-long bit and a steady hand-held electric drill. I, of course, prefer using the Shopsmith's inherent jigging capabilities.

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More to follow...

[JPG]

I guess a wixey type thingie came in handy?

[nuhobby]

Actually, I used the world's best friction-pivot bevel gauge. That is, the vintage 2007 MITE-R-GAGE that I bought from Shopsmith back in the day

[JPG]

Close enough!

[nuhobby]

And we're pretty much done, letting the oils and waxes air out a bit.



Here was the top-layer getting glued on, and the whole thing being checked for height. The clamps weighed more than the stool!

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Here's a closeup of a rung-tenon all wedged and glued. Most satisfyingly, when these were later sawed closer to flush, the wedge glue job was 100% intact. The babies were tight!

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Here's a bit of paint and oil and wax adding flavor:

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Happy Woodworking!
Chris

[JPG]

Turn it around and you have a tv tray with knee space.


Seriously good job!

[thunderbirdbat]

Very nice.

[BuckeyeDennis]

I love the understructure — that’s a nice design and some fine craftsmanship.

Making one of these has been on my bucket list for a while, and my workshop is currently stool-less. But my scrawny butt craves a carved seat bottom. The closer to a tractor seat, the better. Perhaps Roy Underhill would loan me his vintage scorp.

Or failing that, there’s a clever radial arm saw trick. It’s kind of like milling a cove molding by running a board diagonally over a table saw blade, going progressively deeper with each pass. Except that for the RAS chair-seat trick, you machine the scallops in the seat by unlocking the yoke with the machine powered up, and rotating the whole motor/blade assembly about the vertical axis while the saw blade mills sideways through the wood in an arc. This is a potentially lethal technique, however, as Stumpy Nubs would likely die of a heart attack if he ever witnessed it!

[nuhobby]

We'll see how it works out for comfort

One thing not so easy to see in the pictures, is that the seat does tilt back a tad (per the design). I think that does add a bit of comfort.

If not, then "Mark 2" could come to enhance things

[algale]

Really like the design and the execution! Nice job!