Richard Raffan turns a stool for the 4-Ways series of projects.
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- Turning this simple stool for the fourth 4-Ways project had me tweaking the design as work proceeded. Working to a measured drawing would dhave been easier. You see how I turn and fit three matching legs. Here are links to three other approaches to turning a stool.
Sam Angelo - • Turning a Stool---Four...
Tomislav Tomašić - • How to make a stool/ch...
Mike Peace - • Turn a Shop Stool - 4...
4-Ways comprises Sam Angelo, Mike Peace, Richard Raffan, and Tomislav Tomašić who suggested that having a few turners publish their approach to one project on TH-cam at the same time should bre interesting. 4-Ways publish after noon on the first of each month US time, which is evening in Europe. For Australasians it’ll be the 2nd. morning of each month. Each video has links to the others.
Wonderful project. Not only well documented, but so considerate!
Somewhere where aging sock can put his foot up and rest from the frictions of the workplace
and ponder attempts to wax eloquent.
Wonderful sentiments!!!
If you place painters tape around the holes and tenon tops. The epoxy can easily be lifted off with a sharp knife. I'm an old furniture builder.😁
For me, as a beginner.... It was good to see how you stood and moved around the 34min mark where the camera showed your stance; this helped me 😁
Thank you for this lesson in turning a project that is not a bowl. The comments both verbal and written are very instructive. I also appreciated the shots on body movements.
Thank you very much Richard for all these lovely videos!. I really enjoy learning both from your artistic taste and manual dexterity. I'm addicted!😜 each time you post a new video I have to stop anything I'm doing to watch it 😬 Thanks again for your generosity!!!
Love dual purpose with flat top, excellent excecution ☺️glad You using your gurtools!
It's just the right height to be used as a low table and a good sitting height for lacing up shoes.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning and simple yet elegant looking 👍
Love to listen to you talk to yourself. While tuning the first leg your used the word 'chubby'. I had a good chuckle with that one. Really enjoy your entertaining videos. Thank you. Oh yea, I have some different Christmas presents in mind !
This is a great stool. Thank you for all of the excellent tips.👋👋👋👍👍
Thank you for showing the whole process. I have wanted to make one of these, and seeing this video gives me a better understanding of how to drill it together and the final fit and finish. Great project Richard
I really look forward to the first of the month to see what project the four of you are doing. I enjoy seeing the different thought processes that each of you use when approaching the task. I gives me more to think about with what I am turning my self. I have only been turning a little over a year and appreciate what I am learning for all of you
Nicely done Richard, thanks for sharing the process
Take care
Cheers
Harold
Very nice shop stool Richard! Interesting the different methods of drilling and attaching the legs. Thanks you!
Take care, Dave
The stool has moved indoors - it's just the right height for me to sit on whilst tying shoelaces.
Very well done Richard. Great entry in the four way challenge. I really like the bevel on the underside of the seat that matches the leg splay. Nice design. Simple and easy to build. Great fixture for drilling leg holes in the seat. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂
Great little stool Richard.
Very nice simple, useful project
Thanks Richard
I just watch all four of you guys video and they all are very good . All was a little different tw ist to the same project , and all is very nice and usefull .
Thanks so much for your dialogue as you make decisions!
Thamk you for sharing this
Very nice, thank you! Love the four way. Your designs are thoughtful, love the chamfer.
I hollowed out my seats a little - they seem to "sit" a bit more comfortable. On the other hand - the flat ones can be utilized as small tables for tea-cups etc. Nice work. Kind regards.
Jolie travail bravo 👍👏
cant wait to try this, and end up making yet another pencil holder out of it...
Simplicity at it’s very best. That is a beautiful stool!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
A simple and versatile design, both as a seat and a (side) table. Interesting indeed to see how you changed your ideas and plans along the way. And the four different approaches to the same basic idea. Farewell, Old Sock. Briefly I knew you, but much stripey joy did you give me. What type of wood is it? If you said, I feared I missed it on the first viewing? Many thanks for sharing your insights and experience once more.
The wood is box elder.
Awesome as usual! Simple design but very aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Was that spalted maple? Beautiful! Your drill press jig was the bombdiggity best. Thanks again! I have never turned a stool but I must soon! For removal of epoxy, glue etc I have gone to using a wood chisel with a near 90 degree blunt end. Just like 1 degree of angle to leave an 89 degree point. Quick grind on the grinder leaves a beautiful burr that with the chisel laid flat on the surface does extremely quick removal of glues and leaves a surface that doesn’t need further sanding if following the grain. Stumpy Nubs brilliant idea this, and is one I wish I’d have known 50 years ago. Best tip ever! Glue squeeze out is now a breeze when before it drove me nuts. Again you are the man Richard!! Greetings from across the pond to the west.
A wood chisel made into a scraper is basically all it is, just used flat, not on its edge.
This is box elder. Many thanks for the cleanup tip. I've a couple of old chisels I can regrind and I can see them being very handy cleaning up after filling gaps. I'd not thougth of scraping rather than sanding.
Believe it or not, I really needed to see how to find the center using the arches… maybe it’s something trivial but critical for me.
I know you're not alone when it comes to finding centre, which is why I left it in.
Great video as always Richard, always something to learn from watching the master at play. I made three stools for my grand kids from different hard woods using the project in your Taunton press turning book. They have become prized family possessions. one was made from Tamarind, which looks similar to the wood you are using - whht is that wood?
Box elder
Great project! What kind of scraper do you use? Home made? Thanks
All the tools are HSS and variously made by Henry Taylor, Hamlet, Sorby, D-Way, Gurtool, and Thompson. The scrapers are Henry Taylor and Hamlet.
I know I have asked you this before. What included angle do you grind your skew at?
The included angle is about 30-35 degrees.
Hallo Richard, I see you are using some new spindle gauge?
I am, and you'll see it again.
Czech republic
Hot glue
Vicmarc makes a longer rest…
They do indeed but I need one so rarely I can't justify the expense.
Legs should have stretchers for strength and support.
The stool is only 360mm high and I'm sure at these legs will be fine, especially being similar to stools I've used for many years.
Richard, I know you are a master woodturner. I live in a German/Swiss community that has been building furniture since the 1850’s.
We have chairs at the White House that were requested by John Kennedy for his inauguration. Furniture from this area is sold worldwide.
My point is-we know how to design and build all types of furniture, including stools.
My channel has an example. I have built all types of projects, including wooden boats. Been at it for 65+ years.
@@DS12-42 Having looked at your stool and other work I can see we have totally different ideas on what constitutes good design.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning 😂😂👍
Sure hope you’re 300 lb cousin doesn’t test it. Or, trip over those protruding legs.
Not a fan of a stool idea, more design in tool handles than stool legs.
Good video and job though.
As makers we enjoyed this project. And you'd be surprised how much thought goes into the the design of a tool handle. Simple doesn't mean easy.
Slivers not "Slithers"🪱 great work. Makes me want to have a go at this now
For what it's worth, Wiktionary notes "slithers" is a non-standard or informal British usage, so not necessarily to be considered incorrect. I remember Paul Sellers mentioning it, at one point
@@waelisc So not just my malapropism du jour...