Spring Harvest Fine Woodworking
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Spring Harvest Fine Woodworking
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Stool
This wonderful red oak stool is based on plans that were published in Fine Woodworking Magazine. Although the magazine article has the round parts of this stool turned in a lathe, you will shape these parts using a shaving horse, drawknife and spokeshave. Note the attractive tapers in both the posts and rungs. The finish is lacquer over tung oil and the seat is hickory bark woven into a herringbone pattern. In traditional post and rung chair making the wood is worked green so that the drawknife slices through it as if it were a block of hard cheese. The rungs are dried overnight in an oven before the joinery is cut while the posts maintain their high moisture content. After the joints are driven together, the posts shrink around the rungs gripping them in a joint reputed to last, as the 19th century woodworkers might say, "until the cows come home". It is said that chairs made this way will not come apart unless broken apart. In this class you will learn:
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