With Charlie Kate turning 2 this month, I decided it was time to make her a stool. Gabe (pics here) and Graydon have their own stools, so it was time to make one more.
I used Gabe’s stool, which has held up really well over the past 3 years of heavy duty service, to get my rough dimensions worked out.
I have two unofficial rules for building the stools- all scraps and little or no fasteners. That first rule means that I have to stretch to find all the material I need or that the pieces will start out a bit mismatched.
I’m matching the cuts exactly here, but if any more stools are in my future, I am going to let the tops of the legs run long and trim them after glue up, which is what I am doing with the sides of the stool base in the third picture.
And when I said earlier that I had one more stool to make, I actually meant two- my father in law had requested that if I ever got around to building any more of these stools to make him one that was adult portioned.
I would have made the red one taller, but that was the maximum length legs I could get out of the scrap I had on hand.
Here’s a family photo of all the stools, in chronological order: Gabe’s, Gradyon’s, Charlie’s, and the red one is for Roy.
