Green Wood Stool
This is a stool that I made on a two-day green woodworking course with Touch Wood. The first day was spent making the legs (from ash) using froe, hatchet, drawknife and then pole-lathe. The seat was made of walnut using hatchet, drawknife, travisher and then (for reasons explained below) smoothing plane. The seat is 50 mm thick and the legs are (maximum) 44 mm diameter. The seat height is 530 mm, which suits the length of my legs very well.
This photo shows the woodland workshop where the stool was made. I didn't take many photos on the first day, but this was one of the pole-lathes used to make the legs...
... and this is a photo of me using another one of the pole-lathes (with a bench chisel being used a skew chisel):
Lines were burnt into the legs using a piece of steel wire:
For the seat, the first job was cutting out the rough shape with a frame saw:
I then roughly shaped the bottom (to match an existing chamfer on the two sides) with a hatchet...
... and drawknife:
The top-surface of the seat was then cleaned up with a travisher, leaving a slightly rippled finish.
Holes (38 mm diameter if memory serves me correctly) were drilled in the seat for the legs and the legs were wedged. One of the legs was a bit narrow (or the drill bit wandered?) on the seat top and it left a fairly large gap. I hadn't completely finished the stool during the course (the legs still needed cutting off at top and bottom) and when I brought it home I decided to try to fill the gap. Having done this, it seemed that the best look I could achieve would be by planing the top surface such that the repair was flush with the top of the leg (and the top of the stool). You can see the gap repair in this photo:
Another view of the seat top:
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