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furnitude skip to main skip to sidebar addthis n innerhtml at container insertbefore n footer return true document doat hentry furnitude a blog about handmade furniture by someone who makes it labels furniture i love 43 woodworking in america 17 rocking chairs i love 12 ridgid r4512 9 table saw quest 8 craftsy 6 feats of woodworking 6 events i love 4 design blogs i love 3 woodworking blogs i love 2 moxon vise 1 tools 1 what s the deal with 1 books i love 1 libby schrum 1 woodworker s safety week 1 monday july 27 2015 walking stick complete so here s a few photos of the completed walking stick i m happy with how it turned out and it justified purchasing a drawknife so that s a win win posted by furnitude at 12 31 pm 0 comments progress on four legged three legged stool after much more time and energy than i care to admit i m making good progress on the two cherry stools these are my four legged version of the tage frid three legged stool design i m working on milling wood for all the parts which is challenging because the humidity is making them move all over the place but the biggest achievement so far is the progress i ve made with the seat connector piece this little 4 by 5 chunk does the work of keeping the whole stool together by the way when does a stool become a chair this is going to have four legs so maybe it deserves chair status this piece joins the front part of the seat to the seat back but also connects to the back legs that s more action per square inch than any other part of the chair so here s the rundown on what i ve done to the connector so far made a blank out of plywood 3 16 thick pieces of cherry laminated in perpendicular layers straightened it up and cut it down to size cut a 4 wide tenon to fit the mortise in the front of the seat cut a 75 degree angle on the back next up cutting angled dovetails to join the seat back cutting an angle on the underside to join the seat cutting 13 degree bevels on both sides cutting slots to fit dovetails on the two back legs this is a lot of stuff especially since two of the upcoming tasks require making jigs that work just fine in my head but haven t been attempted in the real world and after all this i have to make the rest of the stools i mean chairs posted by furnitude at 12 26 pm 0 comments friday july 10 2015 walking stick a client approached me recently about making a walking stick from a piece of wood she and her husband picked up on a hike i thought how difficult could it be to take a large piece of wood and make it into a smaller piece of wood when i saw the wood at first i didn t recognize the species i thought it could be anything from ash to oak to cherry to walnut i got out my new hatchet and started removing the bark when i got down to the heartwood i realized the species was hickory it felt like i was trying to cut marble i fretted about how i was going to remove enough wood to make this stick functional and attractive considering using a chainsaw or a grinder but i realized it was kind of fun hacking away at it with the hatchet so i kept going i m new to using a hatchet so this was the perfect way for me to learn about its capabilities and how to use it i found that the hatchet was great for doing a kind of hewing i would chop perpendicular to the grain in a long row then go back through with glancing chops to remove the wood it worked really well and removed material much faster than i imagined after taking the piece down to a thickness of 2 or so i used a drawknife to refine the shape a bit more i don t have a shaving horse so it was a challenge to secure the wood i managed to lean it against the house or hold it down with my foot at an angle against a chair it wasn t pretty but i made progress with the wood down to the approximate thickness i was going for and basically round i used a spokeshave to do more refining i love using a spokeshave it s an incredibly versatile tool that i am incorporating more and more into my work the stick is quite rustic on purpose there are some knots here and there some worm channels and even holes that go straight through i chopped off the bottom and the top drilled a hole for a strap and sanded it the hickory is amazingly strong this stick will outlast anyone who owns it once i apply a few coats of finish i m using boiled linseed oil polyurethane and some mineral spirits i ll post a photo once the finish is on but for now here it is x posted by furnitude at 3 26 pm 0 comments monday june 8 2015 engineering solution to get around the issue of the grain running in the wrong direction on the connector of my modified tage frid style stool my idea is to make the connector piece essentially out of hardwood plywood i created the plywood with ¼ thick plies of cherry in an alternating perpendicular orientation this way potentially the wood on the sides of the connector piece will have a substantial amount of end grain to connect to i made the plywood cleaned it up a bit on the jointer and planer and cut the sides with a 15 degree bevel this bevel establishes the splay angle of the legs to complicate matters the leg will also be joined at another angle that will establish the rake making this a compound angle dovetail the splay angle is side to side the rake is front to back i used the test leg i cut for my first test since it already had the tenon that will form the vertical tail of the dovetail the trick to cutting angled dovetails is to not think about the fact that they are angled dovetails just mark everything clearly and cut to the lines i was a little nervous when i tapped the dovetail together because this is where it broke in my last test the fit was a bit too tight and i had to do more pounding than tapping to put it together the joint survived the pounding without a budge now that it was together i had to try to break the wood i wrenched it around simulating the wracking force chair legs have to endure nothing moved no cracks anywhere i put the leg securely in my vise and got out my hammer i bashed it in all directions and still it didn t move finally i climbed up on the bench and put all my body weight on the joint there was a bit of creaking but i think that was me and not the wood i m satisfied now that this plywood method will hold not only does it provide end grain for the dovetail but each layer bolsters the other layers against movement i m considering adding another ply of cherry going side to side on the underside just between the two leg joints and adding a small stretcher a few inches down from the seat which will serve two purposes fortifying the two legs and serving as a handle to move the stool also i feel like the tenon can be a touch wider so i ll incorporate that as well all in all i m happy enough to go forward posted by furnitude at 1 15 pm 0 comments wednesday june 3 2015 engineering problem i love a good engineering problem i think my favorite thing about woodworking is that it s the intersection of engineering and creativity i m working on a design for some barstools based on the tage frid three legged stool the problem is that the seat height needs to be about 28 and i m afraid sitting on a three legged stool that high would make it top heavy the last thing i d ever want is someone falling off of one of these stools frid swore by the design of the third leg in the back i ve made a couple of those stools now and i agree that it s fine when you are sitting at a low height people aren t used to having one leg in the back so when they shift around expecting the seat to be solid they could topple over the second problem is that i ve seen examples of people making the tage frid stool with slight variations and they never look right the proportions are critical to this design they make the design so how do i add another leg in the back without messing with the proportions i did drawings where i widened the connector between the seat and back to accommodate two legs joined with through tenons they looked awful i found that no matter how great the rest of the stool looked my eye always went right to the connector which called attention to itself because it was so out of proportion to the rest of the stool my proposed solution is to join the legs on the sides of the connectors with vertical dovetails so the other problem is the grain direction of the connector the grain needs to run straight from the dovetails on the back to the tenon on the front if you make a hole on the side you leave a section of short grain which is vulnerable to breaking indeed on my first test run the back chunk of the connector broke immediately this is a critical area of the stool so that part of the connector needs to be strong my idea for mounting the legs in that spot with a dovetail is to make the connector out of laminated perpendicular plies it would be like plywood except this would be hardwood plywood this is a compromise as most design decisions are my hope is that the plies will adhere well and strengthen each other time to do some tests posted by furnitude at 11 32 am 0 comments friday november 21 2014 tage frid three legged stool i just finished a series of posts on the craftsy woodworking blog about building a tage frid inspired three legged stool it was a challenging build from start to finish these posts detail the whole process my version is made of ambrosia maple craftsy posts introduction http www craftsy com blog 2014 06 making a tage frid stool making the seat http www craftsy com blog 2014 07 how to make a stool drilling holes for the legs http www craftsy com blog 2014 07 woodworking stool shape the seat http www craftsy com blog 2014 08 tage frid stool wedged tenon joints for legs http www craftsy com blog 2014 09 wedged tenon joint tapering the legs http www craftsy com blog 2014 10 making tapered legs making the stretchers http www craftsy com blog 2014 10 how to make wood stretchers gluing up the stool http www craftsy com blog 2014 10 wood glue up tutorial finishing http www craftsy com blog 2014 11 how to build a wood stool posted by furnitude at 2 26 pm 0 comments wednesday september 10 2014 robotic furniture this article introduces the roombot a robot that assembles itself into different pieces of furniture transformers style the inventors describe it as the future of furniture why am i not worried posted by furnitude at 12 30 pm 1 comments older posts subscribe to posts atom follow me human hands woodworking contact me name email message woodworking links the wood whisperer matt s basement workshop giant cypress the village carpenter wisdom of the hands sandal woods the wood shepherd woodworking magazine weblog vesper tools furnitology glue tube from fine woodworking the renaissance woodworker heartwood the splintered board dorset furniture blog unplugged shop adam king studio blog the folding rule working wood tom fidgen