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
8PQKQmcJDWBqT_lu4HgKKXRRQCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_20180311_162344.jpg">https://1.bp.blo
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

Well done Gye.  Fun to drill those holes and wedge the tops of the tenons.  You
might consider a hollow auger as an easy way to make the round tenons if you are
going to make more.  Or trimming them round with a spokeshave - drill a hole in
a scrap and use it to slowly remove material until it fits the hole snugly.
Chalk on the inside of the hole-in-the-scrap will leave residue on the tenon
where you need to trim it.  Make more!



Ed Minch

To add to what Ed said, your second one will be easier!  Trick is to start
another one right away.
Cheers,
Claudio


Ed Minch
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> https://gyegreene.blogspot.com.au/2018/03/my-first-stool.html <
https://gyegreene.blogspot.com.au/2018/03/my-first-stool.html>
>

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Very nice Gye, I really like it. I really like the rustic look you pulled off.



Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8+.

-------- Original message --------
From: Gye Greene 
Date: 3/14/18 09:21 (GMT-05:00)
To: oldtools@s...
Subject: [OldTools] Made an intentionally rustic stool

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
8PQKQmcJDWBqT_lu4HgKKXRRQCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_20180311_162344.jpg">https://1.bp.blo
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
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Good thoughts.

Although:  I really do like using my lathe. So: any excuse...  ;)


--Travis

LOL!  I've been tending to go where my compulsiveness takes me.

My next project is either making an electric guitar out of hardwood pallet
scraps -- or *finally* finishing a jewelery box that I started making for
my parents' 50th anniversary two years ago... missed the deadline
(technical difficulties, so it took longer than I anticipated)... and then
now that it was "late", got sidetracked on more urgent/interesting projects.


--Travis

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 2:22 AM, Claudio DeLorenzi 
wrote: