Foot Stool PIC

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Ted Shuck

>Great looking stool, and small world! I know Walt from his previous career as a geophysicist. I saw his brother, Roger, last year who told me that Walt was into chairmaking now. It's great to see an example of his art.

Thanks,

Ted

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Paul M. in San Diego

>Phil,

Do the stretchers have a cross inlay along the length of them? I've never seen anything like that before. The angle of the cut is so shallow that it should not compromise the strength of the strecher. Neat idea!

-- Paul M.

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Phil Smith

>Yes the inlay is full width of both the stretcher and also of the legs.

I glued the inlay into a shallow scarf joint that I cut on the band saw and then hand planed flat. This inlay was with two scarf joints on opposite sides of the square stock with the same angle. But if you change the angle of the scarf joints or change the rotation you could get a lot interesting patterns.

not Walt's design

Bill Tindall, E. TN

>Walt taught the weaving. The stool design is entirely Phil's and it eclipsed anything the rest of us thought of.

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Walt Turpening

>Bill is right. The basic design is mine but Phil did take it over the top. Basicly, it is a splayed leg stool variation on Shaker chairs that use the webbing or tape for the seat. By making the legs splayed and increasing the seat rail spacing one then uses a cord the saddle can be easily shaped as it is woven.

If Bill would post a photo of his barstool a second excellent variation can be seen.

I really enjoyed teaching the class. All seven students did good work on something not usual for woodworkers, i.e. weaving.

Walt T.

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