Redwood Footstool

OK, so here’s the deal…........

Wife states on a Saturday evening that she would like a “simple footstool” to place under her desk at work.

Sunday morning I looked through the lumber stack and saw a nice piece of redwood begging – just BEGGING to become a footstool. Why ANY piece of lumber would want to be a footstool is beyond me, but that’s what it wanted – honest! So now I had the perfect, willing piece of lumber.

Wrote down a few dimensions and traced some curves out and came up with what you see – a VERY sturdy stool on an angle just as my wife wanted! And she was able to take it to work the next day!

Easy build overall – just a REALLY tiny table with two legs shorter than the other two. :-)

The only really tricky part of this was that I wanted a lip on the top to be able to catch the feet, but it had to be really strong so…...... it’s all one piece! Those little notches are just decoration. I used a dado blade to remove the entire top inch of wood all except that little strip. If I were to do this again I would just glue a strip in and screw it from the bottom – WAY too time consuming the way I did it.

Anyway – finished it with some clear danish oil – I really love the way redwood shines when it’s treated like this!

-bob

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