These two stools both incorporate half-inch thick cherry wood seats. In order to feel secure when sitting down, I re-inforced the seats with a pair of strips underneath running across the grain and glue joints. The stools use wedged through tenon construction throughout, and the legs are pinned to the seats with purple heart dowel (after I discovered that when I sat down hard, the seats tended to settle down onto the legs a bit… oops!).
Splay leg thin-top stool, 1999, 25" high, cherry wood, lacquer finish (photo: Al Surratt)
Splay leg thin-top stool, 1999, 25" high, Padauk wood with cherry wood seat, lacquer finish, collection of the artist (photo: Al Surratt)