Audrey's Chair-Stool  5                                                04-2018

 

 

Again I used my 3/4" end mill for the dowel hole. However, I had to sand down the dowel a small amount to have it slide through the hole.
 

 

 

I also put a small radius on the end so there were no sharp edges to poke anyone.
 

 

 

The square is resting on the top surface and the edge of the scale represents the path of the screw. Notice the screw will just make contact with the dowel keeping it from moving once in place.
 

 

 

Here you can see what I was talking about. This worked out really good.
 

 

 

Here you can see the arm resting against the dowel and it works great.
 

 

 

Now it's time to put a nice radius on all the surfaces that will exposed to skin. I used a 3/16" corner round cutter on my router that made short work of all the edges.
 

 

 

Some of the edges I wanted to keep sharp compared to most of them. Notice the radius stops short of the end. This area will have a mating piece that would look funny if I ran the radius all the way to the end. I did this in a few places and placed a pencil mark where I wanted the cutter to stop. Not fancy but it worked.
 

 

 

I had to buy a new can of this polyurethane made by Zarr as I used up most but not all of the other can. However, after a couple of years sitting on my shelf, it started to go bad. This product has an oil base so instead of cleaning brushes, I just used the cheap use-once-and-throw-it-away kind. The one problem with this type of brush is that they tend to leave a bristle on your work here and there. But I can live with that so I don't have to use a lot of lacquer thinner cleaning any brushs.
 

 

 

Here is my paint booth: saw horses and a piece of plywood with finishing nails under the work pieces. This process works pretty good but it smells really bad. I put two coats per side and after the first coat, I remembered just how bad this stuff smells so for all the other coats I used a cheap paint mask that helped a bunch.
 

 

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