Stool for gitfiddlin'...
Must be stool day...
Finished this stool off this afternoon. Needed a stool for playing - guitar, mandolin, ukulele - so kind of sussed this out. Haven't made any seating type implement in, geez, over 15 years. Took a class with Jim Rendi in the early 2000s, was really into it for a while, but kind of walked away for (apparently) a long bit. Wanted a staked stool, like the contrast between the mahogany and ash. Ash finished in water based poly (I don't like polyurethane at all, but seems appropriate for this, and will keep the ash as light as possible). Mahogany had a very light coat of BLO, then a bunch of coats of cut oil based gloss poly. In a week or so, will knock down the sheen with some 0000 steel wool.
Not sure why, but the mahogany blotched pretty bad when finished. It seems to be figure in the board, but have never seen mahogany do that. Have an order for one of these; will probably give it a spit coat of shellac and forego the oil on the next one. Hoping that, as the mahogany darkens, the contrast lessens.
Was fun designing and prototyping this. Very comfortable; looking forward to actually using it!