Jeff's Guitar Stool (4)

Programming Note: Next weekend we’ll be in Kansas City where my boys will compete at Globals for Destination Imagination. Usually I try to build up some content for the upcoming Sunday but I really doubt I’ll have a chance this week.

I am nearing completion of Jeff’s combination Guitar Stool + Guitar Stand. I spent fully half of the weekend on the footrest. I have said before that I didn’t like working with hickory. This is why. Planing hickory really isn’t like planing wood at all. I ended up sharpening my jack iron four times before creating this single 14” footrest (I was able to make four stretchers last weekend!)

The first three pictures show the foot rest in the stool and at a couple angles, the next two pictures show using rubber bands to figure out the actual location of the foot rest (much easier and cheaper than lasers!) and the last one shows how intensely hickory wears on an iron (it looks like I’ve been planing nails!)

Next I worked on getting the seat shaped. This involved cutting the overall pattern with my frame saw, then I used a rasp (on end grain) and a spokeshave (on the corners) and my trusty jack plane (on the sides) to shape the bottom. I then screwed a batten to the bottom of the seat to hold the seat with my vise, and shaped the seat using my scorp. I used my travisher I got more recently a little bit as well, but honestly I know how to use the scorp more and had better luck with it: