Jeff's Guitar Stool (1)

This weekend I started on a new project for a friend (Jeff.) The project is a guitar stool with an integrated stand for the guitar. After some back and forth we came to a consensus on the design. Here it is:

I projected the sightlines using these orthographic drawings to make sure that the legs would be bored properly:

Finally I used Peter Galbert’s method to go from sightline to bore angle.

Using the above, I created the seat:

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The next step is to create the legs, and once they are in the seat I’ll plan out the various stretchers, foot stand, etc. Rather than ripping the legs with a saw (which is slow and may create weak legs because it won’t be perfectly parallel with the grain) I used a froe to split out all the legs (plus an extra in case things go sideways.) When you split legs out in this fashion the legs follow the grain and should be very strong.

I did this all together but decided to split each leg into a separate video: