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Tavern stools - portable for events


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On 4/10/2023 at 3:36 PM, Mary Diamond said:

Once upon a time I read about a tailors bench that had been flipped upside down to provide a surface for buttonhole chisel work… perhaps I need to bring my buttonhole chisels? 😊

Put a chisel and hammer in my hand... Best stand back while the chips fly.

I'm definitely learning!

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Aye... Plunder Awaits!

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I reworked one of the stools and made another...

The dark one use to be the thick round one, sorta natural color with Pine seat/oak legs...

and the hexagon is the new one I just made, Pine seat/Birch legs.

 

These will be shipped to ft Gaines for the event. Might even add one to the auction!

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Aye... Plunder Awaits!

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Wow. I have so much sweat equity and experimentation time in this I almost dont want to share it, so I'm abbreviating it here...

You need the kit in the picture. They are $40-$70 depending where you get it. Mine was around $40 on Ebay. I bought the 1-1/8 inch tap kit.

When tapping the hole use a liberal amount of tung oil or some equal kind of lubricant.

 Soak the ends of the dowels in tung oil for 10 minutes before threading those. Go slow and smooth.

 

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probably should move this topic to Shipwright forum or similar (since this is no longer Ft Gaines, but more generic efforts) ...

Here's the makings of another stool and two small cricket tables (based on the stool design with threaded legs). The holes are all threaded. I went to buy dowels for the legs today but lowes and homedepot were completely out of the size dowels I needed.

The legs on the tables are going to be longer than the legs of the stools. The table tops will be attached to what would be the seat with wooden pegs...

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I drilled the legs at 5 degrees this time, but I'm not sure how this will work with longer legs and a wider top, might be top heavy.

Also trying poplar legs this time around since oak is $12 a dowel and the poplar dowls are half the price and are a foot longer.  Again this is an experiment, at worst we go back to oak legs

I'm sure 5 degs will be fine for the stools. I think I did 7 degrees the 1st time around

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On 6/4/2024 at 6:05 PM, madPete said:

probably should move this topic to Shipwright forum or similar (since this is no longer Ft Gaines, but more generic efforts) ...

Here's the makings of another stool and two small cricket tables (based on the stool design with threaded legs). The holes are all threaded. I went to buy dowels for the legs today but lowes and homedepot were completely out of the size dowels I needed.

The legs on the tables are going to be longer than the legs of the stools. The table tops will be attached to what would be the seat with wooden pegs...

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Excellent work, sir!

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Oooh, shiny!

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Here's the first one. It's 30 inches tall which is a bit tall for the stools. I may leave the height on this one and cut the legs slightly shortly on the second one.  It's basically a taller stool with a table top attached with wooden pegs.

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