I made this stool as a part of a class I was taking in the fall of two thousand. It is made from one board of 8/4 maple 12 feet long and 8 inches wide. The idea for the large dovetail is an abstraction of the joint between a guitar neck and the guitar body. The top is held together with four vertically apposed ¼" x 1 ½" splines in each of the three joints. This has proven to hold the top together despite expansion and contraction.

The holes on the bottom were to facilitate the clamping of the top using custom miter clamps. Before the circle was cut out the top was triangular. The outside was notched to provide two points of pressure to glue the top.

The stool is finished with two coats of Minwax Wipe on Poly glossy, and a final coat of Minwax Wipe on Poly satin.