Mum's Bum

A stool with a curved shaped and sanded seat design, domino joint assembled legs, Yakisugi scorched structure beams and a circular wedged tenon joint coming through to the top.

Originally designed as a little stool near the back door to put on your muddy gardening shoes and developed into a furniture piece celebrating the light and dark contrast and layers of plywood.

Using the materials: Plywood, Tulipwood and Ash.

In the Making

This project is part of my light and dark wood series and it was originally created as a gift for my mother for her gardening boots and has started a series of construction principle and striking furniture pieces.

The process

This making process started with a test prototype you can see at the start and then became a more detailed and joinery assembled piece.

Some of the machinery and techniques used were Yakisugi wood scorching, planing the plywood levels down for curved edges, routing the holes, using the hand orbital sander for wood carving the directional seat, saws, drill and a few more.

Details and Joinery

This stool in the collection of my wood series is about the contrasts of light and dark .

Here I show the more visual side of colour contrast, in the directional seat the layers have been carved into a pattern by slowly curving and steering the sander by eye - this is more of a visual difference than a textural one as the seat is comfortable and flowing to use.

Circular wedged tenon joint with tulip wood leg spindle and ash wood wedge with the black scorching createing a black ring around the hole.

Full view of seat top. By eye and hand I used the orbital sander to carve this directional seat into the plywood.

Highlighting the colour contrasts in wood and showing the structure beams entrance to the routed leg hole.

Showcasing my design work and creative journey.

Design

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