Trying to wrap my head around chair making. I made the tall counter stool for myself since I eat most of my meals at my kitchen counter. The short stool will be for a friend’s work desk. It will likely get trimmed a little shorter once she has a chance to try it out. The tall one has a poplar seat and the short one is cherry. The legs are hard maple. Everything was done by hand.
The angles are a little wonky, I’m not sure how much error got introduced in drilling/reaming the mortises vs. cutting/tapering the tenons. I used the techniques Christopher Schwartz demonstrates, planing a 6” taper on the end of the leg to start, then switching to a tapered tenon cutter to finish the tenons. Drilling and reaming the mortises was done by eye, using an auger bit in a brace, then the tapered reamer in an electric drill. It feels like a procedure that gets easier with practice.
I enjoyed making these. I may make another tall stool soon for work. The angled seat on my counter stool feels very ergonomic and my back feels much better after using it for a few weeks. We have desks that can be raised and lowered at work and I’m thinking that switching sitting positions throughout the day may be a really good idea.
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