And finally, a piece of furniture, and let’s take a break from jigs and/or guides for a moment, because after all, making some furniture is what we woodworking enthusiasts aim for. As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, this is a tall wooden stool with a backrest, like those in a bar.
The materials needed to make this tall wooden stool are a couple of 40×40 millimeter strips, a couple of 30×40 millimeter strips, and a piece of solid wood board roughly 350×350 millimeters (600×600? I don’t know what I was thinking) and 30 millimeters thick.
If we had to make it with just a saw and chisel, it would surely take a lot of time and a few headaches if we’re not very skilled in that system of making mortise and tenon joints. However, with the jigs I present in this blog, it’s quite quick to do and I think it’s a good project to practice with the tenon jig and the mortise jig (in this case, I had to make a new mortise jig for the 40×40 millimeter strips), but don’t start this project if you’re not comfortable with the tenon jig, or you might end up ruining some strips.
The bad news (at least for you) is that I thought a good way to fund this blog might be to sell some of the plans (and considering the current situation, maybe some furniture too) and this will be the first one I put up for sale. Anyway, I’ll post an exploded view with the parts of the stool but without measurements.
As I’ve been delaying the sale of the plans for too long, I’ll leave them here: Plans for the tall wooden stool. I hope you can follow them without problems. I appreciate any links back to this blog in return.
While I’m preparing the corresponding PDF and deciding on one of the options for selling files I’ve found online, I’ll leave you with the videos of the stool.
You can tell I don’t have deadlines to meet. I finally uploaded the video on how to make the seat board for the tall wooden stool.
My intention was to make it with a strip board bought at a DIY store. They come in various sizes and thicknesses and usually don’t need much more work than cutting them to the size or shape we need.
Since I didn’t have it bought and couldn’t make it to the DIY store these days, I decided to make a small strip board with some leftover pieces. The procedure was a bit makeshift, I admit, but as you can see in the photos and in this video in this post, the result was quite good. The next post with a video will be about how to glue and make this board and you can judge for yourselves.
As for how to cut the board to fit this wooden stool, the easiest option might seem to use a jigsaw, but I don’t like to use it for solid wood or for thicknesses greater than a centimeter because the cuts usually don’t come out very vertical.
I don’t know how it would be with more homogeneous grain woods (someday I will have to start working with higher quality wood than fir and pine strips), but in the case of pine and fir, where there is a lot of difference between the grains, with some very hard and others very soft, the jigsaw blade tends to cut through the softer areas so that it bends, not maintaining verticality, and we don’t realize it until we have made the cut. Using a band saw would be ideal, or at least the most comfortable, quickest, and would give us the best finish, but the one I have seems like a toy, and since I’m just making one stool, I used a back saw and a chisel to make sure I made the cuts straight and perpendicular to the surface of the board.