Child’s Stool

A friend of mine just had a baby, and I wanted to make her something for him. I had a couple of pieces of African mahogany leftover from doing Julie’s plant stand so I decided to use that to make a multipurpose stool.

I didn’t design this one; 25 years ago, maybe a little more, when I was just starting into serious woodworking, I got a book with designs for children’s furniture. I made several pieces from that book including a crib/youth bed for newborn Ben and a really neat stool/chair thing that could be used in multiple ways as he grew. I have no idea what happened to that original stool or the book the design came from, but I still had the pattern I’d made it from:

The only question left unanswered was how wide to make the actual seat. I thought I remembered it being under a foot — is made for a child, after all — but I couldn’t find the book or the one I’d made long ago. I looked at my scrap piece and figured I could handle 11 inches, so that was the figure I went with.

First I cut two pieces from the larger mahogany scrap, which was just big enough to get them in one piece. Clearly I’d screwed this pattern down before, but I had double-faced tape now; I used that, and a straight bit in the router, to get them identical.

And then I cut the straight pieces from the other scrap piece. That was only 6-1/2 inches wide, so I had to graft a cutoff piece to the side of one.

(No, they’re not that different in real life; African mahogany has a high degree of chatoyance, so it’s perceived color changes with angle and light.)

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Next, I took my pattern again and routed the grooves on the inside face of each side piece to receive the seat. I used a 1/2″ upcut spiral and a 5/8″ guide bushing, which left me room for a 1/8″ tenon shoulder on the seat pieces. I rounded over the tenons and that was basically it for joinery. It glued together in one step.

After three coats of Arm-R-Seal, it was finished:

I really wish I could find that book again, because the designer of this piece did a great job.

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