Yellowstone Last Week.

We were in Yellowstone National Park last week. I'll be adding pictures this week.

Here is Old Faithful


Old Faithful (between eruptions) with Bison.

Stool builder

I have been building prototype stools, but I have not been gluing them together. Will has decided that he can take the stools apart, and have someone help him put them back together. He needed a construction hat like he has at home, so he used a orange bucket that we had with the toys. In this picture, Will is hammering the stool parts back together, with Linda's hammer. We are going to have a problem when I get the final stools built.

Stool Project prototype #3

I have a sample stool built, and it is the right size, I now need to get some hardwood to build the stools. I plan on using white oak, so it will match the wood in the rest of the house.

Stool Project prototype #2

I made a smaller stool and took it to my Mother's to compair it to the stools she had. The new stool was still 3 inches taller that the one my Mother had. Off to build another prototype.

Stool Project.

We purchased two camel saddle bags last February. I had planned on building stools for the bags, but I haven't had time. This weekend I finally got around to building a prototype of the stool out of scrap pine. The final stools will be made of white oak. I needed to build a prototype, because I can't tell if I like the shape and size unless I see it full size. In this picture, I have the prototype stool next to the craftsman foot stool that I'm using as a model. Orignally the prototype was larger than it is in the picture, I have cut 1.5 inches off of the bottom of the stool and 5 inches off of the width. The stool still looks a little big, so I am going to make the vertical posts in the corners smaller, and I think I will still make it shorter.