Shop Stool

SPalm said:

Wood Gloat & Maloof Joint

A week and a half ago I was bored and decided to check Craig's List for lumber. I noticed a weird post of cherry for sale and it stated "must get rid of". Heh. I noticed the location was just 5 miles away. I gave a call and headed over. Turns out I got about 500 board feet of thirty year old air dried in the basement cherry. Almost all of it was 7 feet long and either 3×3s, 4×4s, or 4×6s - strange sizes for cherry. The price was really cheap. A bit of it is pretty cracked, but what a lot of fun I can have. There was so much that I had to make two loads with my small pickup truck.

.
I don't have a lot of wood storage available. I schlepped a bunch down to my basement, and made a small stack in the garage. Then I called in reinforcements. Funny how fellow a LJ will react when given the offer of free wood - and it really helped me out so I could park in the garage again. Thanks Bob.

Here is the stack in the basement. I milled up a stick or two and made a cutting board just to see how the wood looked. It is beautiful; almost all heart wood and very red. I am a happy man.

.
So… I always wanted to make something with a Maloof Joint. A shop stool with my new cheap cherry will be the victim. 29 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep. I glued up a top that is about 1 ¼ inches thick. I cut notches in the four corners that are 3/8 inches less than the thickness of the legs.

.
A quick primer on this joint type; it requires two router bits. A quarter-round and a rabbeting bit. The diameter of these two must be the same. That is the only requirement. I used two that happened to both be from Whiteside; a 1 ¼ inches outside diameter - 3/8 inch rabbeting bit and a 5/8 inch radius quarter-round. Note that 5/8 inch radius = 1 ¼ inch diameter.

I chucked the rabbeting bit in a hand held router. I clamped some scrap to the sides of the top to prevent tear out and routed both sides to form the corner tenon.

.

.
Now on to some legs. I cut one of the 4×4s into three sections. I milled two of the sections, and then cut one of these into four legs. I always think it is amazing when milling rough lumber.

.
I routed a quarter-round on the top couple of inches.

.
I then cut a dado on two sides of the legs.

.
So… this is where it is right now.

.

.

.

That was fun. Now I want to finish it somehow. I plan to add some stretchers to the legs and do a lot of rounding to all the square sides. I had thought of making the top scooped, but I will probably leave that for version 2.0.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Steve

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SPalm said:

Wood Gloat & Maloof Joint

A week and a half ago I was bored and decided to check Craig's List for lumber. I noticed a weird post of cherry for sale and it stated "must get rid of". Heh. I noticed the location was just 5 miles away. I gave a call and headed over. Turns out I got about 500 board feet of thirty year old air dried in the basement cherry. Almost all of it was 7 feet long and either 3×3s, 4×4s, or 4×6s - strange sizes for cherry. The price was really cheap. A bit of it is pretty cracked, but what a lot of fun I can have. There was so much that I had to make two loads with my small pickup truck.

.
I don't have a lot of wood storage available. I schlepped a bunch down to my basement, and made a small stack in the garage. Then I called in reinforcements. Funny how fellow a LJ will react when given the offer of free wood - and it really helped me out so I could park in the garage again. Thanks Bob.

Here is the stack in the basement. I milled up a stick or two and made a cutting board just to see how the wood looked. It is beautiful; almost all heart wood and very red. I am a happy man.

.
So… I always wanted to make something with a Maloof Joint. A shop stool with my new cheap cherry will be the victim. 29 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep. I glued up a top that is about 1 ¼ inches thick. I cut notches in the four corners that are 3/8 inches less than the thickness of the legs.

.
A quick primer on this joint type; it requires two router bits. A quarter-round and a rabbeting bit. The diameter of these two must be the same. That is the only requirement. I used two that happened to both be from Whiteside; a 1 ¼ inches outside diameter - 3/8 inch rabbeting bit and a 5/8 inch radius quarter-round. Note that 5/8 inch radius = 1 ¼ inch diameter.

I chucked the rabbeting bit in a hand held router. I clamped some scrap to the sides of the top to prevent tear out and routed both sides to form the corner tenon.

.

.
Now on to some legs. I cut one of the 4×4s into three sections. I milled two of the sections, and then cut one of these into four legs. I always think it is amazing when milling rough lumber.

.
I routed a quarter-round on the top couple of inches.

.
I then cut a dado on two sides of the legs.

.
So… this is where it is right now.

.

.

.

That was fun. Now I want to finish it somehow. I plan to add some stretchers to the legs and do a lot of rounding to all the square sides. I had thought of making the top scooped, but I will probably leave that for version 2.0.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Steve

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SPalm said:

Wood Gloat & Maloof Joint

A week and a half ago I was bored and decided to check Craig's List for lumber. I noticed a weird post of cherry for sale and it stated "must get rid of". Heh. I noticed the location was just 5 miles away. I gave a call and headed over. Turns out I got about 500 board feet of thirty year old air dried in the basement cherry. Almost all of it was 7 feet long and either 3×3s, 4×4s, or 4×6s - strange sizes for cherry. The price was really cheap. A bit of it is pretty cracked, but what a lot of fun I can have. There was so much that I had to make two loads with my small pickup truck.

.
I don't have a lot of wood storage available. I schlepped a bunch down to my basement, and made a small stack in the garage. Then I called in reinforcements. Funny how fellow a LJ will react when given the offer of free wood - and it really helped me out so I could park in the garage again. Thanks Bob.

Here is the stack in the basement. I milled up a stick or two and made a cutting board just to see how the wood looked. It is beautiful; almost all heart wood and very red. I am a happy man.

.
So… I always wanted to make something with a Maloof Joint. A shop stool with my new cheap cherry will be the victim. 29 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep. I glued up a top that is about 1 ¼ inches thick. I cut notches in the four corners that are 3/8 inches less than the thickness of the legs.

.
A quick primer on this joint type; it requires two router bits. A quarter-round and a rabbeting bit. The diameter of these two must be the same. That is the only requirement. I used two that happened to both be from Whiteside; a 1 ¼ inches outside diameter - 3/8 inch rabbeting bit and a 5/8 inch radius quarter-round. Note that 5/8 inch radius = 1 ¼ inch diameter.

I chucked the rabbeting bit in a hand held router. I clamped some scrap to the sides of the top to prevent tear out and routed both sides to form the corner tenon.

.

.
Now on to some legs. I cut one of the 4×4s into three sections. I milled two of the sections, and then cut one of these into four legs. I always think it is amazing when milling rough lumber.

.
I routed a quarter-round on the top couple of inches.

.
I then cut a dado on two sides of the legs.

.
So… this is where it is right now.

.

.

.

That was fun. Now I want to finish it somehow. I plan to add some stretchers to the legs and do a lot of rounding to all the square sides. I had thought of making the top scooped, but I will probably leave that for version 2.0.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Steve

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SPalm said:

Wood Gloat & Maloof Joint

A week and a half ago I was bored and decided to check Craig's List for lumber. I noticed a weird post of cherry for sale and it stated "must get rid of". Heh. I noticed the location was just 5 miles away. I gave a call and headed over. Turns out I got about 500 board feet of thirty year old air dried in the basement cherry. Almost all of it was 7 feet long and either 3×3s, 4×4s, or 4×6s - strange sizes for cherry. The price was really cheap. A bit of it is pretty cracked, but what a lot of fun I can have. There was so much that I had to make two loads with my small pickup truck.

.
I don't have a lot of wood storage available. I schlepped a bunch down to my basement, and made a small stack in the garage. Then I called in reinforcements. Funny how fellow a LJ will react when given the offer of free wood - and it really helped me out so I could park in the garage again. Thanks Bob.

Here is the stack in the basement. I milled up a stick or two and made a cutting board just to see how the wood looked. It is beautiful; almost all heart wood and very red. I am a happy man.

.
So… I always wanted to make something with a Maloof Joint. A shop stool with my new cheap cherry will be the victim. 29 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep. I glued up a top that is about 1 ¼ inches thick. I cut notches in the four corners that are 3/8 inches less than the thickness of the legs.

.
A quick primer on this joint type; it requires two router bits. A quarter-round and a rabbeting bit. The diameter of these two must be the same. That is the only requirement. I used two that happened to both be from Whiteside; a 1 ¼ inches outside diameter - 3/8 inch rabbeting bit and a 5/8 inch radius quarter-round. Note that 5/8 inch radius = 1 ¼ inch diameter.

I chucked the rabbeting bit in a hand held router. I clamped some scrap to the sides of the top to prevent tear out and routed both sides to form the corner tenon.

.

.
Now on to some legs. I cut one of the 4×4s into three sections. I milled two of the sections, and then cut one of these into four legs. I always think it is amazing when milling rough lumber.

.
I routed a quarter-round on the top couple of inches.

.
I then cut a dado on two sides of the legs.

.
So… this is where it is right now.

.

.

.

That was fun. Now I want to finish it somehow. I plan to add some stretchers to the legs and do a lot of rounding to all the square sides. I had thought of making the top scooped, but I will probably leave that for version 2.0.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Steve

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SPalm said:

Wood Gloat & Maloof Joint

A week and a half ago I was bored and decided to check Craig's List for lumber. I noticed a weird post of cherry for sale and it stated "must get rid of". Heh. I noticed the location was just 5 miles away. I gave a call and headed over. Turns out I got about 500 board feet of thirty year old air dried in the basement cherry. Almost all of it was 7 feet long and either 3×3s, 4×4s, or 4×6s - strange sizes for cherry. The price was really cheap. A bit of it is pretty cracked, but what a lot of fun I can have. There was so much that I had to make two loads with my small pickup truck.

.
I don't have a lot of wood storage available. I schlepped a bunch down to my basement, and made a small stack in the garage. Then I called in reinforcements. Funny how fellow a LJ will react when given the offer of free wood - and it really helped me out so I could park in the garage again. Thanks Bob.

Here is the stack in the basement. I milled up a stick or two and made a cutting board just to see how the wood looked. It is beautiful; almost all heart wood and very red. I am a happy man.

.
So… I always wanted to make something with a Maloof Joint. A shop stool with my new cheap cherry will be the victim. 29 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep. I glued up a top that is about 1 ¼ inches thick. I cut notches in the four corners that are 3/8 inches less than the thickness of the legs.

.
A quick primer on this joint type; it requires two router bits. A quarter-round and a rabbeting bit. The diameter of these two must be the same. That is the only requirement. I used two that happened to both be from Whiteside; a 1 ¼ inches outside diameter - 3/8 inch rabbeting bit and a 5/8 inch radius quarter-round. Note that 5/8 inch radius = 1 ¼ inch diameter.

I chucked the rabbeting bit in a hand held router. I clamped some scrap to the sides of the top to prevent tear out and routed both sides to form the corner tenon.

.

.
Now on to some legs. I cut one of the 4×4s into three sections. I milled two of the sections, and then cut one of these into four legs. I always think it is amazing when milling rough lumber.

.
I routed a quarter-round on the top couple of inches.

.
I then cut a dado on two sides of the legs.

.
So… this is where it is right now.

.

.

.

That was fun. Now I want to finish it somehow. I plan to add some stretchers to the legs and do a lot of rounding to all the square sides. I had thought of making the top scooped, but I will probably leave that for version 2.0.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Steve

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SPalm said:

Wood Gloat & Maloof Joint

A week and a half ago I was bored and decided to check Craig's List for lumber. I noticed a weird post of cherry for sale and it stated "must get rid of". Heh. I noticed the location was just 5 miles away. I gave a call and headed over. Turns out I got about 500 board feet of thirty year old air dried in the basement cherry. Almost all of it was 7 feet long and either 3×3s, 4×4s, or 4×6s - strange sizes for cherry. The price was really cheap. A bit of it is pretty cracked, but what a lot of fun I can have. There was so much that I had to make two loads with my small pickup truck.

.
I don't have a lot of wood storage available. I schlepped a bunch down to my basement, and made a small stack in the garage. Then I called in reinforcements. Funny how fellow a LJ will react when given the offer of free wood - and it really helped me out so I could park in the garage again. Thanks Bob.

Here is the stack in the basement. I milled up a stick or two and made a cutting board just to see how the wood looked. It is beautiful; almost all heart wood and very red. I am a happy man.

.
So… I always wanted to make something with a Maloof Joint. A shop stool with my new cheap cherry will be the victim. 29 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep. I glued up a top that is about 1 ¼ inches thick. I cut notches in the four corners that are 3/8 inches less than the thickness of the legs.

.
A quick primer on this joint type; it requires two router bits. A quarter-round and a rabbeting bit. The diameter of these two must be the same. That is the only requirement. I used two that happened to both be from Whiteside; a 1 ¼ inches outside diameter - 3/8 inch rabbeting bit and a 5/8 inch radius quarter-round. Note that 5/8 inch radius = 1 ¼ inch diameter.

I chucked the rabbeting bit in a hand held router. I clamped some scrap to the sides of the top to prevent tear out and routed both sides to form the corner tenon.

.

.
Now on to some legs. I cut one of the 4×4s into three sections. I milled two of the sections, and then cut one of these into four legs. I always think it is amazing when milling rough lumber.

.
I routed a quarter-round on the top couple of inches.

.
I then cut a dado on two sides of the legs.

.
So… this is where it is right now.

.

.

.

That was fun. Now I want to finish it somehow. I plan to add some stretchers to the legs and do a lot of rounding to all the square sides. I had thought of making the top scooped, but I will probably leave that for version 2.0.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Steve

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SPalm said:

Wood Gloat & Maloof Joint

A week and a half ago I was bored and decided to check Craig's List for lumber. I noticed a weird post of cherry for sale and it stated "must get rid of". Heh. I noticed the location was just 5 miles away. I gave a call and headed over. Turns out I got about 500 board feet of thirty year old air dried in the basement cherry. Almost all of it was 7 feet long and either 3×3s, 4×4s, or 4×6s - strange sizes for cherry. The price was really cheap. A bit of it is pretty cracked, but what a lot of fun I can have. There was so much that I had to make two loads with my small pickup truck.

.
I don't have a lot of wood storage available. I schlepped a bunch down to my basement, and made a small stack in the garage. Then I called in reinforcements. Funny how fellow a LJ will react when given the offer of free wood - and it really helped me out so I could park in the garage again. Thanks Bob.

Here is the stack in the basement. I milled up a stick or two and made a cutting board just to see how the wood looked. It is beautiful; almost all heart wood and very red. I am a happy man.

.
So… I always wanted to make something with a Maloof Joint. A shop stool with my new cheap cherry will be the victim. 29 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep. I glued up a top that is about 1 ¼ inches thick. I cut notches in the four corners that are 3/8 inches less than the thickness of the legs.

.
A quick primer on this joint type; it requires two router bits. A quarter-round and a rabbeting bit. The diameter of these two must be the same. That is the only requirement. I used two that happened to both be from Whiteside; a 1 ¼ inches outside diameter - 3/8 inch rabbeting bit and a 5/8 inch radius quarter-round. Note that 5/8 inch radius = 1 ¼ inch diameter.

I chucked the rabbeting bit in a hand held router. I clamped some scrap to the sides of the top to prevent tear out and routed both sides to form the corner tenon.

.

.
Now on to some legs. I cut one of the 4×4s into three sections. I milled two of the sections, and then cut one of these into four legs. I always think it is amazing when milling rough lumber.

.
I routed a quarter-round on the top couple of inches.

.
I then cut a dado on two sides of the legs.

.
So… this is where it is right now.

.

.

.

That was fun. Now I want to finish it somehow. I plan to add some stretchers to the legs and do a lot of rounding to all the square sides. I had thought of making the top scooped, but I will probably leave that for version 2.0.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Steve

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SPalm said:

Wood Gloat & Maloof Joint

A week and a half ago I was bored and decided to check Craig's List for lumber. I noticed a weird post of cherry for sale and it stated "must get rid of". Heh. I noticed the location was just 5 miles away. I gave a call and headed over. Turns out I got about 500 board feet of thirty year old air dried in the basement cherry. Almost all of it was 7 feet long and either 3×3s, 4×4s, or 4×6s - strange sizes for cherry. The price was really cheap. A bit of it is pretty cracked, but what a lot of fun I can have. There was so much that I had to make two loads with my small pickup truck.

.
I don't have a lot of wood storage available. I schlepped a bunch down to my basement, and made a small stack in the garage. Then I called in reinforcements. Funny how fellow a LJ will react when given the offer of free wood - and it really helped me out so I could park in the garage again. Thanks Bob.

Here is the stack in the basement. I milled up a stick or two and made a cutting board just to see how the wood looked. It is beautiful; almost all heart wood and very red. I am a happy man.

.
So… I always wanted to make something with a Maloof Joint. A shop stool with my new cheap cherry will be the victim. 29 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep. I glued up a top that is about 1 ¼ inches thick. I cut notches in the four corners that are 3/8 inches less than the thickness of the legs.

.
A quick primer on this joint type; it requires two router bits. A quarter-round and a rabbeting bit. The diameter of these two must be the same. That is the only requirement. I used two that happened to both be from Whiteside; a 1 ¼ inches outside diameter - 3/8 inch rabbeting bit and a 5/8 inch radius quarter-round. Note that 5/8 inch radius = 1 ¼ inch diameter.

I chucked the rabbeting bit in a hand held router. I clamped some scrap to the sides of the top to prevent tear out and routed both sides to form the corner tenon.

.

.
Now on to some legs. I cut one of the 4×4s into three sections. I milled two of the sections, and then cut one of these into four legs. I always think it is amazing when milling rough lumber.

.
I routed a quarter-round on the top couple of inches.

.
I then cut a dado on two sides of the legs.

.
So… this is where it is right now.

.

.

.

That was fun. Now I want to finish it somehow. I plan to add some stretchers to the legs and do a lot of rounding to all the square sides. I had thought of making the top scooped, but I will probably leave that for version 2.0.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Steve

Click to expand...

SPalm said:

Wood Gloat & Maloof Joint

A week and a half ago I was bored and decided to check Craig's List for lumber. I noticed a weird post of cherry for sale and it stated "must get rid of". Heh. I noticed the location was just 5 miles away. I gave a call and headed over. Turns out I got about 500 board feet of thirty year old air dried in the basement cherry. Almost all of it was 7 feet long and either 3×3s, 4×4s, or 4×6s - strange sizes for cherry. The price was really cheap. A bit of it is pretty cracked, but what a lot of fun I can have. There was so much that I had to make two loads with my small pickup truck.

.
I don't have a lot of wood storage available. I schlepped a bunch down to my basement, and made a small stack in the garage. Then I called in reinforcements. Funny how fellow a LJ will react when given the offer of free wood - and it really helped me out so I could park in the garage again. Thanks Bob.

Here is the stack in the basement. I milled up a stick or two and made a cutting board just to see how the wood looked. It is beautiful; almost all heart wood and very red. I am a happy man.

.
So… I always wanted to make something with a Maloof Joint. A shop stool with my new cheap cherry will be the victim. 29 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep. I glued up a top that is about 1 ¼ inches thick. I cut notches in the four corners that are 3/8 inches less than the thickness of the legs.

.
A quick primer on this joint type; it requires two router bits. A quarter-round and a rabbeting bit. The diameter of these two must be the same. That is the only requirement. I used two that happened to both be from Whiteside; a 1 ¼ inches outside diameter - 3/8 inch rabbeting bit and a 5/8 inch radius quarter-round. Note that 5/8 inch radius = 1 ¼ inch diameter.

I chucked the rabbeting bit in a hand held router. I clamped some scrap to the sides of the top to prevent tear out and routed both sides to form the corner tenon.

.

.
Now on to some legs. I cut one of the 4×4s into three sections. I milled two of the sections, and then cut one of these into four legs. I always think it is amazing when milling rough lumber.

.
I routed a quarter-round on the top couple of inches.

.
I then cut a dado on two sides of the legs.

.
So… this is where it is right now.

.

.

.

That was fun. Now I want to finish it somehow. I plan to add some stretchers to the legs and do a lot of rounding to all the square sides. I had thought of making the top scooped, but I will probably leave that for version 2.0.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Steve

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SPalm said:

Wood Gloat & Maloof Joint

A week and a half ago I was bored and decided to check Craig's List for lumber. I noticed a weird post of cherry for sale and it stated "must get rid of". Heh. I noticed the location was just 5 miles away. I gave a call and headed over. Turns out I got about 500 board feet of thirty year old air dried in the basement cherry. Almost all of it was 7 feet long and either 3×3s, 4×4s, or 4×6s - strange sizes for cherry. The price was really cheap. A bit of it is pretty cracked, but what a lot of fun I can have. There was so much that I had to make two loads with my small pickup truck.

.
I don't have a lot of wood storage available. I schlepped a bunch down to my basement, and made a small stack in the garage. Then I called in reinforcements. Funny how fellow a LJ will react when given the offer of free wood - and it really helped me out so I could park in the garage again. Thanks Bob.

Here is the stack in the basement. I milled up a stick or two and made a cutting board just to see how the wood looked. It is beautiful; almost all heart wood and very red. I am a happy man.

.
So… I always wanted to make something with a Maloof Joint. A shop stool with my new cheap cherry will be the victim. 29 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep. I glued up a top that is about 1 ¼ inches thick. I cut notches in the four corners that are 3/8 inches less than the thickness of the legs.

.
A quick primer on this joint type; it requires two router bits. A quarter-round and a rabbeting bit. The diameter of these two must be the same. That is the only requirement. I used two that happened to both be from Whiteside; a 1 ¼ inches outside diameter - 3/8 inch rabbeting bit and a 5/8 inch radius quarter-round. Note that 5/8 inch radius = 1 ¼ inch diameter.

I chucked the rabbeting bit in a hand held router. I clamped some scrap to the sides of the top to prevent tear out and routed both sides to form the corner tenon.

.

.
Now on to some legs. I cut one of the 4×4s into three sections. I milled two of the sections, and then cut one of these into four legs. I always think it is amazing when milling rough lumber.

.
I routed a quarter-round on the top couple of inches.

.
I then cut a dado on two sides of the legs.

.
So… this is where it is right now.

.

.

.

That was fun. Now I want to finish it somehow. I plan to add some stretchers to the legs and do a lot of rounding to all the square sides. I had thought of making the top scooped, but I will probably leave that for version 2.0.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Steve

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SPalm said:

Wood Gloat & Maloof Joint

A week and a half ago I was bored and decided to check Craig's List for lumber. I noticed a weird post of cherry for sale and it stated "must get rid of". Heh. I noticed the location was just 5 miles away. I gave a call and headed over. Turns out I got about 500 board feet of thirty year old air dried in the basement cherry. Almost all of it was 7 feet long and either 3×3s, 4×4s, or 4×6s - strange sizes for cherry. The price was really cheap. A bit of it is pretty cracked, but what a lot of fun I can have. There was so much that I had to make two loads with my small pickup truck.

.
I don't have a lot of wood storage available. I schlepped a bunch down to my basement, and made a small stack in the garage. Then I called in reinforcements. Funny how fellow a LJ will react when given the offer of free wood - and it really helped me out so I could park in the garage again. Thanks Bob.

Here is the stack in the basement. I milled up a stick or two and made a cutting board just to see how the wood looked. It is beautiful; almost all heart wood and very red. I am a happy man.

.
So… I always wanted to make something with a Maloof Joint. A shop stool with my new cheap cherry will be the victim. 29 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep. I glued up a top that is about 1 ¼ inches thick. I cut notches in the four corners that are 3/8 inches less than the thickness of the legs.

.
A quick primer on this joint type; it requires two router bits. A quarter-round and a rabbeting bit. The diameter of these two must be the same. That is the only requirement. I used two that happened to both be from Whiteside; a 1 ¼ inches outside diameter - 3/8 inch rabbeting bit and a 5/8 inch radius quarter-round. Note that 5/8 inch radius = 1 ¼ inch diameter.

I chucked the rabbeting bit in a hand held router. I clamped some scrap to the sides of the top to prevent tear out and routed both sides to form the corner tenon.

.

.
Now on to some legs. I cut one of the 4×4s into three sections. I milled two of the sections, and then cut one of these into four legs. I always think it is amazing when milling rough lumber.

.
I routed a quarter-round on the top couple of inches.

.
I then cut a dado on two sides of the legs.

.
So… this is where it is right now.

.

.

.

That was fun. Now I want to finish it somehow. I plan to add some stretchers to the legs and do a lot of rounding to all the square sides. I had thought of making the top scooped, but I will probably leave that for version 2.0.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Steve

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SPalm said:

Wood Gloat & Maloof Joint

A week and a half ago I was bored and decided to check Craig's List for lumber. I noticed a weird post of cherry for sale and it stated "must get rid of". Heh. I noticed the location was just 5 miles away. I gave a call and headed over. Turns out I got about 500 board feet of thirty year old air dried in the basement cherry. Almost all of it was 7 feet long and either 3×3s, 4×4s, or 4×6s - strange sizes for cherry. The price was really cheap. A bit of it is pretty cracked, but what a lot of fun I can have. There was so much that I had to make two loads with my small pickup truck.

.
I don't have a lot of wood storage available. I schlepped a bunch down to my basement, and made a small stack in the garage. Then I called in reinforcements. Funny how fellow a LJ will react when given the offer of free wood - and it really helped me out so I could park in the garage again. Thanks Bob.

Here is the stack in the basement. I milled up a stick or two and made a cutting board just to see how the wood looked. It is beautiful; almost all heart wood and very red. I am a happy man.

.
So… I always wanted to make something with a Maloof Joint. A shop stool with my new cheap cherry will be the victim. 29 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep. I glued up a top that is about 1 ¼ inches thick. I cut notches in the four corners that are 3/8 inches less than the thickness of the legs.

.
A quick primer on this joint type; it requires two router bits. A quarter-round and a rabbeting bit. The diameter of these two must be the same. That is the only requirement. I used two that happened to both be from Whiteside; a 1 ¼ inches outside diameter - 3/8 inch rabbeting bit and a 5/8 inch radius quarter-round. Note that 5/8 inch radius = 1 ¼ inch diameter.

I chucked the rabbeting bit in a hand held router. I clamped some scrap to the sides of the top to prevent tear out and routed both sides to form the corner tenon.

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Now on to some legs. I cut one of the 4×4s into three sections. I milled two of the sections, and then cut one of these into four legs. I always think it is amazing when milling rough lumber.

.
I routed a quarter-round on the top couple of inches.

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I then cut a dado on two sides of the legs.

.
So… this is where it is right now.

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.

.

That was fun. Now I want to finish it somehow. I plan to add some stretchers to the legs and do a lot of rounding to all the square sides. I had thought of making the top scooped, but I will probably leave that for version 2.0.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Steve

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SPalm said:

Wood Gloat & Maloof Joint

A week and a half ago I was bored and decided to check Craig's List for lumber. I noticed a weird post of cherry for sale and it stated "must get rid of". Heh. I noticed the location was just 5 miles away. I gave a call and headed over. Turns out I got about 500 board feet of thirty year old air dried in the basement cherry. Almost all of it was 7 feet long and either 3×3s, 4×4s, or 4×6s - strange sizes for cherry. The price was really cheap. A bit of it is pretty cracked, but what a lot of fun I can have. There was so much that I had to make two loads with my small pickup truck.

.
I don't have a lot of wood storage available. I schlepped a bunch down to my basement, and made a small stack in the garage. Then I called in reinforcements. Funny how fellow a LJ will react when given the offer of free wood - and it really helped me out so I could park in the garage again. Thanks Bob.

Here is the stack in the basement. I milled up a stick or two and made a cutting board just to see how the wood looked. It is beautiful; almost all heart wood and very red. I am a happy man.

.
So… I always wanted to make something with a Maloof Joint. A shop stool with my new cheap cherry will be the victim. 29 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep. I glued up a top that is about 1 ¼ inches thick. I cut notches in the four corners that are 3/8 inches less than the thickness of the legs.

.
A quick primer on this joint type; it requires two router bits. A quarter-round and a rabbeting bit. The diameter of these two must be the same. That is the only requirement. I used two that happened to both be from Whiteside; a 1 ¼ inches outside diameter - 3/8 inch rabbeting bit and a 5/8 inch radius quarter-round. Note that 5/8 inch radius = 1 ¼ inch diameter.

I chucked the rabbeting bit in a hand held router. I clamped some scrap to the sides of the top to prevent tear out and routed both sides to form the corner tenon.

.

.
Now on to some legs. I cut one of the 4×4s into three sections. I milled two of the sections, and then cut one of these into four legs. I always think it is amazing when milling rough lumber.

.
I routed a quarter-round on the top couple of inches.

.
I then cut a dado on two sides of the legs.

.
So… this is where it is right now.

.

.

.

That was fun. Now I want to finish it somehow. I plan to add some stretchers to the legs and do a lot of rounding to all the square sides. I had thought of making the top scooped, but I will probably leave that for version 2.0.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Steve

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SPalm said:

Wood Gloat & Maloof Joint

A week and a half ago I was bored and decided to check Craig's List for lumber. I noticed a weird post of cherry for sale and it stated "must get rid of". Heh. I noticed the location was just 5 miles away. I gave a call and headed over. Turns out I got about 500 board feet of thirty year old air dried in the basement cherry. Almost all of it was 7 feet long and either 3×3s, 4×4s, or 4×6s - strange sizes for cherry. The price was really cheap. A bit of it is pretty cracked, but what a lot of fun I can have. There was so much that I had to make two loads with my small pickup truck.

.
I don't have a lot of wood storage available. I schlepped a bunch down to my basement, and made a small stack in the garage. Then I called in reinforcements. Funny how fellow a LJ will react when given the offer of free wood - and it really helped me out so I could park in the garage again. Thanks Bob.

Here is the stack in the basement. I milled up a stick or two and made a cutting board just to see how the wood looked. It is beautiful; almost all heart wood and very red. I am a happy man.

.
So… I always wanted to make something with a Maloof Joint. A shop stool with my new cheap cherry will be the victim. 29 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep. I glued up a top that is about 1 ¼ inches thick. I cut notches in the four corners that are 3/8 inches less than the thickness of the legs.

.
A quick primer on this joint type; it requires two router bits. A quarter-round and a rabbeting bit. The diameter of these two must be the same. That is the only requirement. I used two that happened to both be from Whiteside; a 1 ¼ inches outside diameter - 3/8 inch rabbeting bit and a 5/8 inch radius quarter-round. Note that 5/8 inch radius = 1 ¼ inch diameter.

I chucked the rabbeting bit in a hand held router. I clamped some scrap to the sides of the top to prevent tear out and routed both sides to form the corner tenon.

.

.
Now on to some legs. I cut one of the 4×4s into three sections. I milled two of the sections, and then cut one of these into four legs. I always think it is amazing when milling rough lumber.

.
I routed a quarter-round on the top couple of inches.

.
I then cut a dado on two sides of the legs.

.
So… this is where it is right now.

.

.

.

That was fun. Now I want to finish it somehow. I plan to add some stretchers to the legs and do a lot of rounding to all the square sides. I had thought of making the top scooped, but I will probably leave that for version 2.0.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Steve

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SPalm said:

Wood Gloat & Maloof Joint

A week and a half ago I was bored and decided to check Craig's List for lumber. I noticed a weird post of cherry for sale and it stated "must get rid of". Heh. I noticed the location was just 5 miles away. I gave a call and headed over. Turns out I got about 500 board feet of thirty year old air dried in the basement cherry. Almost all of it was 7 feet long and either 3×3s, 4×4s, or 4×6s - strange sizes for cherry. The price was really cheap. A bit of it is pretty cracked, but what a lot of fun I can have. There was so much that I had to make two loads with my small pickup truck.

.
I don't have a lot of wood storage available. I schlepped a bunch down to my basement, and made a small stack in the garage. Then I called in reinforcements. Funny how fellow a LJ will react when given the offer of free wood - and it really helped me out so I could park in the garage again. Thanks Bob.

Here is the stack in the basement. I milled up a stick or two and made a cutting board just to see how the wood looked. It is beautiful; almost all heart wood and very red. I am a happy man.

.
So… I always wanted to make something with a Maloof Joint. A shop stool with my new cheap cherry will be the victim. 29 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep. I glued up a top that is about 1 ¼ inches thick. I cut notches in the four corners that are 3/8 inches less than the thickness of the legs.

.
A quick primer on this joint type; it requires two router bits. A quarter-round and a rabbeting bit. The diameter of these two must be the same. That is the only requirement. I used two that happened to both be from Whiteside; a 1 ¼ inches outside diameter - 3/8 inch rabbeting bit and a 5/8 inch radius quarter-round. Note that 5/8 inch radius = 1 ¼ inch diameter.

I chucked the rabbeting bit in a hand held router. I clamped some scrap to the sides of the top to prevent tear out and routed both sides to form the corner tenon.

.

.
Now on to some legs. I cut one of the 4×4s into three sections. I milled two of the sections, and then cut one of these into four legs. I always think it is amazing when milling rough lumber.

.
I routed a quarter-round on the top couple of inches.

.
I then cut a dado on two sides of the legs.

.
So… this is where it is right now.

.

.

.

That was fun. Now I want to finish it somehow. I plan to add some stretchers to the legs and do a lot of rounding to all the square sides. I had thought of making the top scooped, but I will probably leave that for version 2.0.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Steve

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SPalm said:

Wood Gloat & Maloof Joint

A week and a half ago I was bored and decided to check Craig's List for lumber. I noticed a weird post of cherry for sale and it stated "must get rid of". Heh. I noticed the location was just 5 miles away. I gave a call and headed over. Turns out I got about 500 board feet of thirty year old air dried in the basement cherry. Almost all of it was 7 feet long and either 3×3s, 4×4s, or 4×6s - strange sizes for cherry. The price was really cheap. A bit of it is pretty cracked, but what a lot of fun I can have. There was so much that I had to make two loads with my small pickup truck.

.
I don't have a lot of wood storage available. I schlepped a bunch down to my basement, and made a small stack in the garage. Then I called in reinforcements. Funny how fellow a LJ will react when given the offer of free wood - and it really helped me out so I could park in the garage again. Thanks Bob.

Here is the stack in the basement. I milled up a stick or two and made a cutting board just to see how the wood looked. It is beautiful; almost all heart wood and very red. I am a happy man.

.
So… I always wanted to make something with a Maloof Joint. A shop stool with my new cheap cherry will be the victim. 29 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep. I glued up a top that is about 1 ¼ inches thick. I cut notches in the four corners that are 3/8 inches less than the thickness of the legs.

.
A quick primer on this joint type; it requires two router bits. A quarter-round and a rabbeting bit. The diameter of these two must be the same. That is the only requirement. I used two that happened to both be from Whiteside; a 1 ¼ inches outside diameter - 3/8 inch rabbeting bit and a 5/8 inch radius quarter-round. Note that 5/8 inch radius = 1 ¼ inch diameter.

I chucked the rabbeting bit in a hand held router. I clamped some scrap to the sides of the top to prevent tear out and routed both sides to form the corner tenon.

.

.
Now on to some legs. I cut one of the 4×4s into three sections. I milled two of the sections, and then cut one of these into four legs. I always think it is amazing when milling rough lumber.

.
I routed a quarter-round on the top couple of inches.

.
I then cut a dado on two sides of the legs.

.
So… this is where it is right now.

.

.

.

That was fun. Now I want to finish it somehow. I plan to add some stretchers to the legs and do a lot of rounding to all the square sides. I had thought of making the top scooped, but I will probably leave that for version 2.0.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Steve

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SPalm said:

Wood Gloat & Maloof Joint

A week and a half ago I was bored and decided to check Craig's List for lumber. I noticed a weird post of cherry for sale and it stated "must get rid of". Heh. I noticed the location was just 5 miles away. I gave a call and headed over. Turns out I got about 500 board feet of thirty year old air dried in the basement cherry. Almost all of it was 7 feet long and either 3×3s, 4×4s, or 4×6s - strange sizes for cherry. The price was really cheap. A bit of it is pretty cracked, but what a lot of fun I can have. There was so much that I had to make two loads with my small pickup truck.

.
I don't have a lot of wood storage available. I schlepped a bunch down to my basement, and made a small stack in the garage. Then I called in reinforcements. Funny how fellow a LJ will react when given the offer of free wood - and it really helped me out so I could park in the garage again. Thanks Bob.

Here is the stack in the basement. I milled up a stick or two and made a cutting board just to see how the wood looked. It is beautiful; almost all heart wood and very red. I am a happy man.

.
So… I always wanted to make something with a Maloof Joint. A shop stool with my new cheap cherry will be the victim. 29 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep. I glued up a top that is about 1 ¼ inches thick. I cut notches in the four corners that are 3/8 inches less than the thickness of the legs.

.
A quick primer on this joint type; it requires two router bits. A quarter-round and a rabbeting bit. The diameter of these two must be the same. That is the only requirement. I used two that happened to both be from Whiteside; a 1 ¼ inches outside diameter - 3/8 inch rabbeting bit and a 5/8 inch radius quarter-round. Note that 5/8 inch radius = 1 ¼ inch diameter.

I chucked the rabbeting bit in a hand held router. I clamped some scrap to the sides of the top to prevent tear out and routed both sides to form the corner tenon.

.

.
Now on to some legs. I cut one of the 4×4s into three sections. I milled two of the sections, and then cut one of these into four legs. I always think it is amazing when milling rough lumber.

.
I routed a quarter-round on the top couple of inches.

.
I then cut a dado on two sides of the legs.

.
So… this is where it is right now.

.

.

.

That was fun. Now I want to finish it somehow. I plan to add some stretchers to the legs and do a lot of rounding to all the square sides. I had thought of making the top scooped, but I will probably leave that for version 2.0.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Steve

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SPalm said:

Wood Gloat & Maloof Joint

A week and a half ago I was bored and decided to check Craig's List for lumber. I noticed a weird post of cherry for sale and it stated "must get rid of". Heh. I noticed the location was just 5 miles away. I gave a call and headed over. Turns out I got about 500 board feet of thirty year old air dried in the basement cherry. Almost all of it was 7 feet long and either 3×3s, 4×4s, or 4×6s - strange sizes for cherry. The price was really cheap. A bit of it is pretty cracked, but what a lot of fun I can have. There was so much that I had to make two loads with my small pickup truck.

.
I don't have a lot of wood storage available. I schlepped a bunch down to my basement, and made a small stack in the garage. Then I called in reinforcements. Funny how fellow a LJ will react when given the offer of free wood - and it really helped me out so I could park in the garage again. Thanks Bob.

Here is the stack in the basement. I milled up a stick or two and made a cutting board just to see how the wood looked. It is beautiful; almost all heart wood and very red. I am a happy man.

.
So… I always wanted to make something with a Maloof Joint. A shop stool with my new cheap cherry will be the victim. 29 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep. I glued up a top that is about 1 ¼ inches thick. I cut notches in the four corners that are 3/8 inches less than the thickness of the legs.

.
A quick primer on this joint type; it requires two router bits. A quarter-round and a rabbeting bit. The diameter of these two must be the same. That is the only requirement. I used two that happened to both be from Whiteside; a 1 ¼ inches outside diameter - 3/8 inch rabbeting bit and a 5/8 inch radius quarter-round. Note that 5/8 inch radius = 1 ¼ inch diameter.

I chucked the rabbeting bit in a hand held router. I clamped some scrap to the sides of the top to prevent tear out and routed both sides to form the corner tenon.

.

.
Now on to some legs. I cut one of the 4×4s into three sections. I milled two of the sections, and then cut one of these into four legs. I always think it is amazing when milling rough lumber.

.
I routed a quarter-round on the top couple of inches.

.
I then cut a dado on two sides of the legs.

.
So… this is where it is right now.

.

.

.

That was fun. Now I want to finish it somehow. I plan to add some stretchers to the legs and do a lot of rounding to all the square sides. I had thought of making the top scooped, but I will probably leave that for version 2.0.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Steve

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SPalm said:

Wood Gloat & Maloof Joint

A week and a half ago I was bored and decided to check Craig's List for lumber. I noticed a weird post of cherry for sale and it stated "must get rid of". Heh. I noticed the location was just 5 miles away. I gave a call and headed over. Turns out I got about 500 board feet of thirty year old air dried in the basement cherry. Almost all of it was 7 feet long and either 3×3s, 4×4s, or 4×6s - strange sizes for cherry. The price was really cheap. A bit of it is pretty cracked, but what a lot of fun I can have. There was so much that I had to make two loads with my small pickup truck.

.
I don't have a lot of wood storage available. I schlepped a bunch down to my basement, and made a small stack in the garage. Then I called in reinforcements. Funny how fellow a LJ will react when given the offer of free wood - and it really helped me out so I could park in the garage again. Thanks Bob.

Here is the stack in the basement. I milled up a stick or two and made a cutting board just to see how the wood looked. It is beautiful; almost all heart wood and very red. I am a happy man.

.
So… I always wanted to make something with a Maloof Joint. A shop stool with my new cheap cherry will be the victim. 29 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep. I glued up a top that is about 1 ¼ inches thick. I cut notches in the four corners that are 3/8 inches less than the thickness of the legs.

.
A quick primer on this joint type; it requires two router bits. A quarter-round and a rabbeting bit. The diameter of these two must be the same. That is the only requirement. I used two that happened to both be from Whiteside; a 1 ¼ inches outside diameter - 3/8 inch rabbeting bit and a 5/8 inch radius quarter-round. Note that 5/8 inch radius = 1 ¼ inch diameter.

I chucked the rabbeting bit in a hand held router. I clamped some scrap to the sides of the top to prevent tear out and routed both sides to form the corner tenon.

.

.
Now on to some legs. I cut one of the 4×4s into three sections. I milled two of the sections, and then cut one of these into four legs. I always think it is amazing when milling rough lumber.

.
I routed a quarter-round on the top couple of inches.

.
I then cut a dado on two sides of the legs.

.
So… this is where it is right now.

.

.

.

That was fun. Now I want to finish it somehow. I plan to add some stretchers to the legs and do a lot of rounding to all the square sides. I had thought of making the top scooped, but I will probably leave that for version 2.0.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Steve

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