If You Can, this is a big help: www.patreon.com/wordsnwood ========== ========== Yes, another step stool, but this is less "beginner" than the previous. I like it quite a lot!
Art, I recently found your channel and enjoyed your build, thank you. One idea with the plugs might be to use them as a design element by using a contrasting wood like maple. All the best, Dan.
Thanks Art it really is nice to see how to use a planer sled. Been doing this for a while. It’s the first time I’ve heard of it. Great idea. Thanks for the explanation.
That came out beautiful Art, nicely done! The cherry one is still my favorite though. I need to make a few of these with a slightly bigger top this summer.
Nice job Art. Isnt it interesting how even these little projects can develope into something a bit more iattractive merely by,say, using anglea on the legs?Takes the piece to a new level.Anybody can nail three bits of wood together and have a(somewhat) functional stool,start using angles and hide the fasteners with anicer bit of wood and the bar is raised.
I have had this beautiful cherry board for years. It has a unique ripply grain. Problem is, it has a bad twist. Was already planed down to 3/4 inch, so I guess I can only use it for small things!
Always great to see an upload from Mr. Art - Words & Wood! I've been a subscriber for many moons 🌙 & always find something within that is something to add to my own bag of knowledge. Thanks foe the content, great work, great detail of your work & pride you put into all of your projects, big or small. They're all a joy! Hope you continue for many more years to come & as a suggestion of something to make, of you happen to need it, would a desk caddy/organizer/valet of some kind. I push a pen and tap a few keys as well. It would be nice to find a hybrid of something like this that doesn't take 75% of your work top, but makes value space up by combining everything if at all possible. Everything I think of doing something like this, I always fall back to ART can do that!! Lol Just a suggestion. Take care..... Tony - Central Coast Cali 🇺🇸
Did you consider hand planing to flatten the board? Not owning a stationary electric planer, that's the only way I've done it - and it's quite satisfying.
Alcohol will make taking hot glue off a lot easier, just get some around the blob and capillary action will make the job a lot easier. Step up stool really steps up, nice job.
I... I have no idea. It's yellow and green, but no logo. I have no idea where it came from, probably from my dad's garage, so Beaver Lumber is a definite possibility. (He was a carpenter all through the 60s and 70s)
I noticed you sent in your planer sled with the cleat and it first. Is this correct? The knives are spinning towards you as you feed the board, and I think the cleats should serve as a stop for the board not to move. Correct me if I’m wrong but I’ve always fed the cleated end of the sled last
The knives push back, but the rollers push forward... To be honest, I can see both sides. I have no idea any more where I first saw a planer sled demonstrated. As long as the wood is held firm and will not rock I bet it will work.
He did it right; cleat first. The rollers are pushing the board toward the cleat. The board slides away from the cleat if you have the cleat on the rear of the sled.
Cleat first, if it needs a cleat at all. The planer is pushing the material through the planer, and the sled is just along for the ride. The hot glue is more than strong enough to overcome the friction of the sled against the planer bed.
@@ninomaiorano6697 Which indicates that it would have been fine without a cleat. Even without the hot melt glue, just the pressure of the rollers is probably enough to keep the sled planted firmly on the material.
I usually set my blade height on my table saw about 1/4" higher than the piece I'm cutting. I notice that you run yours very high. Is there a reason why you do that?
Thanks, Robin. This one actually surprised me at how much better I thought it looked! And as for the Shellac -- I used that first to "wake up" the walnut. I was using up a can of plain waterbased poly, which can give walnut or cherry a bit of a "flat/dead" look. So the Shellac was for aesthetics, and not to seal up anything. (Ironically, later off screen I refinished the old Cherry stepstool, and I used shellac there because I was changing from rattlecan-spray-lacquer to Waterbased Poly. THEN I needed the shellac as a barrier coat. )
"I want about an angle" I bet it will be 10 degrees "I think I want 15 degrees" Oh, I was way off. "Actually that is more than I want, think I'll do about 10" Called it.
