hello my name is Scott Shafer I'm a builder for rustic style at the mangas Colorado I live here in Aurora so I build the small stuff out of my one car garage today I'm going to show you how i turn these into this this is a 30 inch bar stool within the bolstered leather top totally i build for parcels at a time and it takes me about two days to build for bar stools but today I'm just going to build one for the sake of this demonstration so right now I'm not using the later that's meant to be used i clamped the armature so it wouldn't just to add a little resistance to it so that I can move the log on my own you really need to be careful though not to bump the on switch while you're doing this you look here at din I'm using an 80 grit sandpaper to send the logs on the first go around 80 grit is just perfect it takes off a lot of the residue from the bark and dirt and stuff but it doesn't take so much off that it changes the shape of the lock and of course i'm using a drop blade to pull off some of the park you are here right now this particular leg has some brutal on it so I'm going to use a chisel to just dig out some of the bark from inside the Burrell you up here right now I designed and built this workbench specifically for these tools and for this purpose because it's a one-car garage an i do have a lot of tools storage space is a problem for me so i found a way to store my larger tools like the lathe and the joiner but also make them easy to pull out and use when I first told my dad I was going to build this bench you thought it was a stupid idea but I proved him wrong right now I'm cutting the legs to length using a jig that gives them three inch tape I'm going to drill just a quarter inch pilot hole in each to the top of the legs and we need to number the logs to correspond with the holes in the seat it's a beautiful night you are here right now what I'm doing right now is I'm drawing lines that are going to show me where to drill my holes for my spindles you are here right now and I label each line with a six or a nine depending on the height of that spindle it's really important to minimize the number of times that you take the bolts in and out of the wood so now I'm using those lines I sure to not only show me where to put the hole but where to aim the hole this is an important step that it's really easy to miss I'm growing pilot holes for my plug holes where the mountains kisses so we change from a one-and-a-half inch bit to a seven eighths inch pin follow cabin through a moonlit night and get a sense of cliff sides spaces and wide open places if there were prophets in this world now i'm using 120 grit sandpaper to do the final sanding on the legs hi I'm Evan single open spaces boss medals and tall rock pieces I lift my the music listening to is Tim guidotti you can probably find them on facebook or myspace he's local to Durango really cool guys this is the land God all of the earth beneath my feet 10 th st now I need to make sure that all my holes are facing in the right direction and I label all the holes so that I can measure for my spindle length can't run the weights around the bend will need to catch up I want to make sure that the log i use for my spindles is at least one and a half inches thick because of my holes for the tenants are a one and a half inch hole where the mountains kiss the sky and the eris then we look now rustic style doesn't typically use a working lathe to form Tenon's we actually do it by hand with the draw blade and a sander i'm using working late because my setups a little bit different and it saves me a lot of time boss metals and toxins I and if they start down sky high because rustic style doesn't actually use a working wave I had to watch youtube videos to learn how to do it Oh beneath my feet unjust in me it's important for both style and structure for that tendon to be as tight as possible if the tenon fits too loose I have to throw it out and start over with a new one cynics says tons of changing times are getting harder today the cynic things that yesterday we were much smarter to get the Tenon's in I'm just gonna loosen up the legs just a little bit and seize up ND don't we don't mess around when it comes to sturdiness I'm using wood glue and bolts to hold all my times together the man we gotta make it do a make it be alright if you have to resort to using a dead blow hammer you know your tenants are tight we got lake in your head break it be alright citic is so easy to believe this I'm gonna tighten up my top leaves that medical things in this world they are in pain cynics I'm using one inch dowel slices to fill in all of my bolt holes here then musea hi here the media hi here than meets the eye then I sand down the excess plug to make it blend in with the log hey whatever gets us through the man now it's time for the final step in the construction process leveling the stool sometimes you need to whip out the sawzall and other times you just need the sander it's a tedious step but it's the one that's gonna make or break the stool for the customer whatever again finally we're going to finish our stool at danish oil tea danish oil is a natural substance that actually brings out the true color in the wood unlike polyurethane and does require you to recode it every once in a while throughout the life of the piece however with age your colors are going to get more more beautiful if you're interested in purchasing these tools or any other piece that we built you can contact us at rustic style at yahoo com or use that email just to find us on facebook and check out our pictures and videos ok that it's all dry ready to go i will put another coat of while on a lighter because it's going to dry it up a little bit i also have my upholstered seat here which is interchangeable with these little latches that way whatever your whatever look you're gone before we can match it with on these stools and you can change it at the pain on what you have going on at your house kind of cool my name is Scott thank you for watching