How to make a strong wood step stool - DIY Woodworker Weekend Project

[Music] today's video explores the making of the steps tool that i designed i designed it to have angled sides a simple aesthetic arch and nice clean lines this video will document the making of several different variations of the same step stool an important feature for the woodworker is that it's held together all with woodworking joinery and there are no fasteners this is a final side it has some angled sides along with a curve that's cut out on the bottom and also you can see a tenon that has been cut on the top and so here you can see i've drawn out the entire piece we have our curve along the bottom the angled sides that will cut with a panel saw and on the top we have our tinian and we'll use some back saws to cut that [Music] [Music] so [Music] now we turn our attention to cutting the tinion with the back sauce uh [Music] we next remove the saw marks with a hand plane and round over the edges with the radius plane [Music] so now i want to talk about making the top the top is just a rectangle but it has rounded edges here on each corner and also has a 16th of an inch radius put on this each edge furthermore on the back side you can see some mortises that are put into the back and this allows it to mate nicely with the sides that interlock like this and so in this next segment we're going to look at cutting the mortises and rounding the edges and rounding these corners [Music] [Music] [Music] so i've now unclamped these boards and here you can see that there's some glue residue here that kind of builds up from clamps and so the first thing we want to do is remove that and then clean these surfaces down with a hand plane [Music] wow [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] we are now ready to make the rails to do that we partially assemble the steps tool and instead of cutting this to length ahead of time i found that it's better to mark this to fit the space between the two ends so here we'll do that so i first marked that space i then set this in place and spin it around and mark the other one [Music] uh [Music] next insert this into here spin it around and mark the other one so here we have our three step stools that are partially assembled and what we're going to do next is we're going to cut the joinery that connects the sides to the rails here we could have cut a tenon joint that looks like this that's cut into the end of the rails but i chose intentionally to use something called a loose tenon which requires us to cut a slot in both the ends and in the rails so in the next step we're going to cut a slot or in in the rails and finally the last step will be that we want to round over the edges on the rails and we want to round over the edges so when someone picks up the step stool it feels nice and comfortable so the last thing we want to do before assembling the step stools is round over these sharp edges here we're going to do this with this pan plate using this hand plane is a lot easier than setting up your router so that's why i like to use it we're now ready to assemble the steps tool [Music] [Applause] after wiping off the excess glue this is now ready to sit overnight here you can see the three fully assembled step stools that i worked on in this video and here are some other variations once they've been finished [Music] you

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Id: HepMK28-3Xg

Length: 11min 32sec (692 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 30 2020