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