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3-legged Stools

comments (2) January 28th, 2010 in Reader's Gallery

bob_ressel bob_ressel, member
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31, 24, and 17 versions
My demo stools from 1st semester
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Front view
Walnut seat of 24 stool
31, 24, and 17 versions - CLICK TO ENLARGE

31", 24", and 17" versions
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I teach high school woodworking in southeastern Pennsylvania, mainly from a production point of view. This stool project is centered around the use of jigs and fixtures to drill the angled holes in the seat and legs as well as machining the four-sided tapers on the legs.


Design or Plan used: My own design
posted in: Reader's Gallery, cherry, walnut, white oak, stool, danish modern inspired
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bob_ressel bob_ressel writes: Hey Lynn. I saw your stools the other week and thought the same thing. I started with the Tage Frid stool as well, tried it as a project in class with the students a few years ago but it was too complicated so i simplified it, same as you. Even though I have a 20" bandsaw capable of cutting the seat in one pass, that's a lot of blade to deal with so I have the students make the seat out of two halves. They drill the seat holes first, cut the radius of the seat, and then glue the two seat halves together. Saves a lot of grinding time as well. And since the seat halves are roughly 5 3/4" wide, you can make the cut on a standard 14" bandsaw. Nice job on your stools also.

Posted: 3:03 pm on January 31st

LWillis LWillis writes: This is spooky. Please check out the photos of MY 3-legged stools on page 16 of this gallery. I, too, started with the Tage Frid model. I didn't have access to a large band saw, so had to shape the seats with an angle grinder and sander. When I saw these stools, I naturally thought that you had patterned your stools after mine. Then I saw the photo that you had posted in January, 2009. I had not seen that one (or these) until tonight. I think it's really interesting how similar our stools turned out to be.

Lynn Willis
Posted: 12:22 am on January 31st

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