Four legs?
Four legs?
Four legged....
Tis' folly to play such games...
Nonetheless....3
"You can observe a lot just by watching."
--Yogi Berra
50/50 chance of getting it right. Both look good but the three legged one looks lighter and better to me. Me thinks the lady went for the three legged stool.
+1 for the proverbial three-legged stool.
I like the spilled soup drain holes.
Neither! She said she preferred the two-legged one while she was staring at you
Now that I think about it Derek in most of the pictures of your home and the furniture you make/design for it are light (in weight) looking and contemporary so why should this be any different. So I think your wife said, the three legs.
I'm gonna guess the one with four legs and three holes in the seat.
I'll stay out of the design review (!4!), but stick with Pat here. It's simple dyna-statical-cypher-empiri-neering.
I built a 3-leg baptismal font, around a large glass bowl. I was very concerned about how tippy it is. As Mr. Roy's video points out, if the stool tips past the 'plumb line', it goes over (all due respect, it is a rather pointless demo - who sits in a stool at that angle? They will have hit the 'eject' button long before.) But more importantly, as Pat points out, if the user's center of gravity shifts outside the fulcrum, they are going over too. Even if the stool was flat on the floor.
I'd want to prototype this, but it seems intuitive to me that the safest setup is the 'single' leg to the front-center, with paired-legs to the rear. Rationale being, that if legs are reversed (paired to front, single in back), and if the passenger is sitting upright or leaning into the backrest, then ~80-90% of their weight is directly on the single leg. Any weight shift to left or right, necessarily moves their CG past Pat's fulcrum and they go glass-over-tea-kettle. Personal injury lawyers, please have a seat ...right here.
At least with the single leg forward, they can catch themselves. I'm betting Nakashima found this acceptable in his designs above...?
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I have a few shop stools that my son has made me and one has the scooped seat, the other a more bike seat approach. I like and use them both and as far as comfort it is really hard to draw a conclusion of what is more comfortable. Funny enough one has the T stretchers and the other the three spindle approach. Stools just don't "hold" the body like a chair, so they don't follow the same comfort criteria and a seat that somewhat fits the buns works good. So a lot said, but no conclusion. I prefer a blend of windsor/shaped seat and Bern has something going with his stretcher layout.
I think Derek needs to post a picture of his tool box.
OK Derek, fess up. Which did she prefer?
Derek,
Can I copy your design? It would be a fun project.
Hi Lowell
You are more than welcome to copy it all ... it is not original. As much as I like to have my stamp on what I make, I am a beginner with Windsor designs and styles, and am stepping in the footprints of others. I post my stuff because I believe that there are others - like yourself - also feeling their way here. We all need as much guidance as possible.
Regards from Perth
Derek