Thread: Please instpect my stool too.

Originally Posted by Allen Neighbors

Nice work, TL!
Suggestions for the big box.... hollow it from the bottom, insert a false bottom, cut off the top "pillow", and hollow it for the lid. It'd sure make it lighter... that is, 'if' it's too heavy for ya.
Still, just like it is, it'd be nice to have in the living area to just roll around where you want it.
I like it.

Originally Posted by NeilS

Serious bit of spindle turning there TL.

I'm not sure what it is with women woodworkers and the very solid wooden stools they make.... one of the members of the Japanese Hand Tools forum has been doing her own versions, here.

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Those stools do look very interesting. The log that this one is turned out of will split as it dries more too and I've been pondering butterfly keys as a way to stop it completely falling apart.

It also occurred to me today that I could turn each "pillow" layer separately in layers (cross grain instead of end grain.) and fix then together. The middle ones could then just be rings, to make the whole thing slightly hollowed and lighter. Although in a way having it so heavy stops it falling over. Ain't no one gonna push these babies over.

I know someone with lots of slabs of cedar too. And other interesting wood.