Making A Three Legged Stool

I've been doing a lot of reading up about stick chairs lately (mostly the Lost Arts Press stick chair book) and I've been watching lots of videos about making them too and finally decided to dip my toes into the stick chair world with a simple 3 legged stool. I really wanted a stool for my workshop and made myself one out of Ash and then I had just enough walnut lying around so I decided to make this one to try and raise some money for charity.

I was so paralyzed looking at all the options for turning round tenons but decided I could save some money and turn them on my lathe, so far they've all fit really nicely into their holes, but I'm sure there's an easier way to turn the tenons. Either with a tenon sizing tool or I've seen people modify a spanner to cut accurate tenons, I might have to try that!

[laromande]

Brilliant. I think you just manage to get so much done with a minimal set of tools, relying heavily on math and measures to get your design just right. Truly inspiring, thanks for the video David!

[sick-days]

This is a banger, Dave. Beautiful stool. So jealous of your workshop

[kspencer_handcrafted]

Well done once again! Always enjoy your videos.

[ellieagnew]

What angle did you go for on the drill press? Great vid!