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berry wrote: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
Given the way he cut the legs, would they not already be tapered???Hobbyman2 wrote:berry wrote: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?
dusty wrote:
Given the way he cut the legs, would they not already be tapered???
