daniel lane
03-11-2012, 11:45 AM
Okay, I'll never be at the same level as George, but maybe I can show some of the work I've done. Below is a wooden step stool I made for my son to help with potty training. It's so he can wash his hands all by himself, something he really wanted to (and does) do. It's not quite a neander project, as I used a router to round over the edges (don't have any molding planes, yet) and you can clearly see the imprint of the ROS in the dust, but it was a quick project over the Christmas holiday - 5 hours from raw stock to photograph, not counting the overnight panel glue-up.
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It's about 14" deep, 12" tall, and 20" wide, IIRC. I used a single 1x8x8' piece of premium pine from the BORG. To justify the neander forum post, I crosscut it with my new (to me) Disston D8 saw (and was very sad when I was so quickly done with that job!), cut the notches with my LV back saws, trimmed those with my shoulder plane, and predrilled the nail holes with an eggbeater. The nails are the wedge-shaped cut style of nails, and this project is the first time I used them. I admit to using them because I'd just bought them, that and speed are probably why I didn't bother dovetailing the cross braces. The side panels are glued up at the "L" and I really like how it turned out. The way I planned the crosscuts, I made sure to take two adjacent pieces and glued them together on the same edge. Sort of a "book match" if you will. The steps themselves were rounded over with a router, as was the top cross brace for comfort of little hands picking it up there.
Anyway, this is it when it was finished. The boy loves it and although I thought the wood looked fantastic and was prepared to oil/shellac finish it, he insisted on bright red paint. *sigh*
daniel
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It's about 14" deep, 12" tall, and 20" wide, IIRC. I used a single 1x8x8' piece of premium pine from the BORG. To justify the neander forum post, I crosscut it with my new (to me) Disston D8 saw (and was very sad when I was so quickly done with that job!), cut the notches with my LV back saws, trimmed those with my shoulder plane, and predrilled the nail holes with an eggbeater. The nails are the wedge-shaped cut style of nails, and this project is the first time I used them. I admit to using them because I'd just bought them, that and speed are probably why I didn't bother dovetailing the cross braces. The side panels are glued up at the "L" and I really like how it turned out. The way I planned the crosscuts, I made sure to take two adjacent pieces and glued them together on the same edge. Sort of a "book match" if you will. The steps themselves were rounded over with a router, as was the top cross brace for comfort of little hands picking it up there.
Anyway, this is it when it was finished. The boy loves it and although I thought the wood looked fantastic and was prepared to oil/shellac finish it, he insisted on bright red paint. *sigh*
daniel