With Saw, Plane and Chisel by Zachary Dillinger

Author:Zachary Dillinger [Dillinger, Zachary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Choose your stock carefully

This piece uses a very small amount of walnut so, if you can, spend the money for the most figured wood you can find, especially for the rails. I bought one figured piece of 2"-thick walnut and resawed the four rails from it.

The leg stock should be at least 3" square in the rough. Pieces like this often can be purchased as turning blanks from specialty woodworking stores, or you can simply rip 12⁄4 stock to size. Either way, be picky about what you choose. Look for rift-sawn stock, meaning the end grain runs from corner to corner. This ensures that each leg will have a pleasing and consistent grain pattern on both show faces, something you will not have if you buy flat-sawn or quarter-sawn wood.

For the rails, the reference surfaces are the outside face and the bottom edge. Plane them flat and square to each other. The inside face can be left in the rough or with rough plane marks, whichever suits your fancy, but aim for an approximate 7⁄8" thickness for the four rails.

On the legs, the inside faces are your reference surfaces and should be as flat, straight and square to each other as possible. The outside faces of each leg blank require no planing as those faces will be completely changed as you make the cabriole legs. And last, orient the legs in the stool so that the curve of the end grain faces the outside corner (Photo 1).

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