I just completed four (4) kitchen/bar stools in Cherry. The seat blanks and footrest/stretchers are joined with 8x50 dominos. All components were cut on my TechnoIsel LC4896 CNC Router. The leg to seat joinery is a Maloof style. I sanded with a Festool RO90 and ETS125. The finish is four coats each of poly/oil and oil/wax.
Cherry Kitchen / Bar Stools
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Those are sharp! Love the details. Grain really popping. [thumbs up]
Peter
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I've always loved cherry, and those stools are exquisitely beautiful. Well done!!! [thumbs up]
Nice work and use of the Maloof joint. Those look nice!
Any photos for how you fixtured / held the legs while cutting with the CNC? I assume you had three different setups for each face? Top looks relatively easy, but the legs had me scratching my head!
Thanks for sharing.
Any photos for how you fixtured / held the legs while cutting with the CNC? I assume you had three different setups for each face? Top looks relatively easy, but the legs had me scratching my head!
Thanks for sharing.
Neil,neilc said:
I don't think I have photos of the setup. The seats, legs and stretcher are all double sided machining. I used the CNC to pre-place some sockets in the spoil board for some Rockler hold down clamps incorporating their T-bolts on the seat blanks. Also drilled index holes through the material/spoil board used 3/8" dowels to align the material for the second side.
The legs were done four at a time, blanks cut long and bolted to the spoil board using the sockets and T-bolts, with the same indexing dowels.
A lot of work even with the CNC, tons of sanding, probably will not build more of these. Still a fun project.
Don
I did use a jig to cut the dados in the legs for the stretchers.
