Asa and Silas, the blond Grands, wanted to make their mother a step stool for Mother's Day. I designed the unit and then James and I milled the parts for a step stool that they could assemble.
I created a quick drawing in Sketchup.. elements were a stout top and legs with a stretcher to hold down racking...through tenons that will have wedges to lock...
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The wood for the stool was southern yellow pine left over from the bench project...we milled down a couple of boards, jointed the edges and then put in Dominoes
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| We used 10 mm x 50 mm Dominoes... image shown is the glue up... |
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Clamp down...this created a board roughly 11 inches wide...all parts were milled from this board |
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After cutting a 10 inch x 18 inch top, Domino mortises were put into the underside...
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A fence was clamped down to guaranteee consistent mortise location... |
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Here are the milled legs, top and stretecher...Domino
tenons were test fitted and all was well... |
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Through mortises were laid out...and most
of the mortise was hogged out with a Forstner bit on drill press. |
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Walls of the mortises were squared and finished out with chisels... |
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Final squaring and corner cleanup was done
with a Nishiki Kinari paring chisel... |
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Minor adjustments to the mortise were made
with an Auriou rasp. |
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A little cleanup on the tenon shoulders with LV skew rabbit plane. |
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Bias cuts on the legs were made with track saw. |
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| Milled leg.. |
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Dry test fit...very stout even without glue... |
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Finished parts...ready for assembly by the
Grands. |
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The glue up... |
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The stool after the clamps are removed...wedges
to be trimmed. |
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Finished product in use. |
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