Chair club part 5 - Legs in! Sanding flat

Once the holes were adequately chiselled out - taking care not to remove too much because the legs needed to fit in snugly - it took some serious knocking in to get them to slot in!

Now they did fit mostly perfectly, but as expected all was not perfect - a slight crack in the multi-layer plywood and a little chip in the surface of the Iroko on the stool top.

Nothing a little wood glue mixed with sawdust can't fix! Richard showed me a nifty, classic method of filling gaps, mixing sawdust from the appropriate wood, with wood glue and applying it as a filler.

 

Sanding the surface flat

Chair Club part 4 - making the necessary leg holes

Tricky tricky work! Marking out the holes for each leg to slot into, I drilled through to make a start and then began chiselling out. 

Richard had a brainwave to switch me over the using a power hand saw, and boy did it speed things up! But it was very delicate work and I had to carefully work close to the lines.

Chair Club part 3 - four legs

This is a chair club retrospective, since my stool was completed a few weeks ago. But it's good exercise for my woodworker memory to record the steps as blogposts!

So here are photographs of the next level of chair club, where the surface (made of various woods - see previous posts) is setting, it soon became time for leg making.

I originally set out to make a milking stool but took the decision to go four legged, for good balance and aesthetics.

Here are the steps taken to preparing four legs at angles, to splay out beneath the stool whilst slotting into the surface at right-angles. Using a set square and mortice gauge, carefully! Marking out each leg in the same way, and then removing the necessary sections.