As my first piece of furniture, I made a Japanese design inspired dining stool. The motivation was requiring a few extra seats around the dining table when we exceeded the seating capacity of 6.
This stool is all black walnut. I started with a template for the curve, made from 1/2” mdf. This template was used to curve the legs (curves on both outer faces), the long and short stretchers, and also the bench style 18x12” seat. Joinery was done with mortises and floating tenons (dominos). The stool was finished with two coats of Odies Universal Oil.
