This is what a stepstool I made back in January looked like before I put it together.
We had seen a stepstool just about like this in a store (Home Coming?) in Newton Centre that was going out of business in November. We asked about it, but it wasn’t for sale. I looked at it long enough to figure out how it was made, bought lots of oak lumber at Home Depot, and eventually got down to work. Somewhere there’s a picture of the finished object, because, yes, I did finish it. Even “finish” in the woodworking sense, with Minwax wood finish (golden oak color, my favorite for oak projects).
Let’s see: piano hinge to hold it together at the top. Big wooden clamp to hold the pieces to the workbench while I cut dados for the steps with a router. Angle marking gauge, essential to getting the sides cut to match. Nice folding metal ruler, maybe two feet all unfolded but very compact when folded, my best yard sale purchase ever (but there are probably a half-dozen things I’ll call my best yard sale purchase ever, depending on how I feel at the time). Xcelite screwdriver that I’ve had since I was in college. Franklin Titebond glue, yellow carpenter’s glue, makes joints about as strong as the wood.
