GGs,


SUMMARY:  I made an intentionally rustic stool -- my first (completed!)
project in a fair while.  Here's a photo --
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yHgwx7VZntk/WqkYAgXmXQI/AAAAAAAADQg/BMVBUiOg
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gspot.com/-yHgwx7VZntk/WqkYAgXmXQI/AAAAAAAADQg/BMVBUiOg8PQKQmcJDWBqT_lu4HgKKXRRQ
CLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_20180311_162344.jpg
-- and here's a blog entry with three other pics, plus a whole lot of
explanation:

https://gyegreene.blogspot.com.au/2018/03/my-first-stool.html



ELABORATION:

-It's my first stool/chair/table; my first piece of "furniture" (I've made
a few storage racks, but I don't count those); and my first use of my lathe
beyond just some tool handles.

-The seat is from about a year and a half ago:  a co-worker's wife gave it
to me when they were downsizing and moving from a house into an
intentionally small 2 BR apartment.

-The legs are from an oddly slow-growing tree (lagesrstromia [poorly
spelled!]/crepe myrtle).  Oddly, I didn't log where they came from --  but
it's either prunings from the front yard of our previous house, which had
been my wife's grandmother's house for 70-ish years (we were living with my
wife's parents, and then the grandmother died, so we moved into the house
for a few years until the family figured out what they wanted to do with
it) -- or else prunings from the tree that a backhoe moved from the
grandmother's back yard into our new house's front yard (I removed about
half the branches, so that the reduced root ball wouldn't be overloaded
with excess branches to support).

-It's the result of a lot of artistic plus engineering decisions:  to splay
the legs or have them vertical (I splayed them, but subtly); to sand back
the wood (i.e. removing the motor oil stains and dribble of blue-green
paint), or to retain the patina.


--Travis