Show me your shop stool

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Mike Davis

Mike
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I need a new perch for working on small tedious assemblies and light work at the bench.

What do you use?

What do you like about it?

What would you get if you could have anything?
 

Jeff

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Jeff
This is a bar height swivel chair (24" to the top of the seat and 35" to the top of the backrest) that we bought somewhere back in the late 70s. It's comfortable for sitting at a +/- 3' tall workbench, swivels, and the back rest is nice if you want to lean back and think or just get some support.

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This is a stool that I made a few years ago but it could be used as a shop stool too (about 26" to the top of the seat).

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Raymond

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Cheap swivel stool from Global Industrial.
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Richo B

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Richo
The saw bench in my avatar has become my bench in the shop. Use it more for sitting than for sawing since its just the right size for doing dovetails on my bench. This is especially funny since the small stool you can see in the upper right corner was meant to be the shop stool but it is not as high for sitting at the table.
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TENdriver

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WRT using the sawbench as a stool, I’ve built a handful of these following Christopher Schwarz instructions. Those sawbenches are outstanding exercises in hand tool wood working. As fantastic as they are to make, the design has some inherent flaws that make them exceptionally unstable if you place the slightest amount of weight near the legs/ends.

I would go so far as to say the C.S. design is literally unsafe. I’ve marked the outboard section of my benches with red warnings to help prevent injury. I should rebuild them in a safer more stable version, but I rarely have anyone else in my shop.

Just my experience specifically with th C. S. design.
 

Canuck

Wayne
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Purchased this swivel stool from Northern Tool about 10 years ago to use as an elevated shop stool.​


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Got a little tired of plastering the worn/torn cushion with layers of duct tape so I made a new seat out of quarter sawn oak.​

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Nice a strong and accommodates wear and tear perfectly.

Wayne​



 
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Chris C

Chris
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I've been chewing on the same problem for a while.

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It serves the purpose.

But my mother had a piano stool that I acquired and "disassembled" for the mechanism.

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It's on the ever-growing list of things to complete.
 

Richo B

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Richo
WRT using the sawbench as a stool, I’ve built a handful of these following Christopher Schwarz instructions. Those sawbenches are outstanding exercises in hand tool wood working. As fantastic as they are to make, the design has some inherent flaws that make them exceptionally unstable if you place the slightest amount of weight near the legs/ends.

I would go so far as to say the C.S. design is literally unsafe. I’ve marked the outboard section of my benches with red warnings to help prevent injury. I should rebuild them in a safer more stable version, but I rarely have anyone else in my shop.

Just my experience specifically with th C. S. design.

Mine isn't based on C.S. In fact I built mine before I had even heard of him. Mine is from the Aldren A Watson book on Hand Tools: Their Ways and Workings. But all the same I still watch out not to let my butt cross the jaws or else it's tipping time.
 
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KenOfCary

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I also use one like bash posted a link to from Northern Tool most often. I have a few wooden ones that are taller for work at the scroll saw, etc. Would like to get a padded pneumatic one that is taller than the NT stool.
 

Richo B

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Richo
Even though I have other stools that look better suited, I find myself using this one way more than any other. $15 with the perpetual $5 off $15 coupon.

https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200672984_200672984

They had those in the furniture labs at Colonial Williamsburg when I worked there. I want one for my lab here. Now I know where to get one. They're great for working on large pieces of furniture or sofas while seated without sitting on the floor. Thanks for posting this.
 

sawman101

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I bought one of these through Walmart. The price seems to have increased since my purchase. It is adjustable and I use it for scroll sawing, and at my Jet Mini Lathe. Because of severe back pain, I need to sit while working, as much as possible. My one complaint is I am always sitting on the edge of the seat, and it's slippery. Got mine in orange to match my Power King Tractors I love to restore and use. Probably should have ordered in red to match my dearly beloved Hawk scroll saws! Woodcraft sells the same stool.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Adjustab...ol-with-Tractor-Seat-Multiple-Colors/10996244
 
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dazart

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Steve
Back support - nice. I need some of that. But if you're always sitting forward and not using the back support, maybe not for me.

I bought one of these through Walmart. The price seems to have increased since my purchase. It is adjustable and I use it for scroll sawing, and at my Jet Mini Lathe. Because of severe back pain, I need to sit while working, as much as possible. My one complaint is I am always sitting on the edge of the seat, and it's slippery. Got mine in orange to match my Power King Tractors I love to restore and use. Probably should have ordered in red to match my dearly beloved Hawk scroll saws! Woodcraft sells the same stool.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Adjustab...ol-with-Tractor-Seat-Multiple-Colors/10996244
 
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bowman

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Neal
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But my mother had a piano stool that I acquired and "disassembled" for the mechanism.

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It's on the ever-growing list of things to complete.


I think I have that exact piano stool. My daughter and son-in-law was going to throw this away when they moved into their house this spring. I rescued it for hopes of restoring at some point.
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i also have a camp stool that I use too.
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Chris C

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I think I have that exact piano stool. My daughter and son-in-law was going to throw this away when they moved into their house this spring. I rescued it for hopes of restoring at some point.
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i also have a camp stool that I use too.
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Exactly the same...I saved the parts I think. If you need something let me know
 
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