Back in Minnesota, I originally made a shop stool from an offcut of spalted elm that I bought to make my low workbench. I haven’t been using that stool much lately, and was getting tired of tripping over it in the shop.
With my back surgery earlier this year, plus getting a new mattress that would properly support my back, I had a new problem. The mattress is too tall, and when I try to put on my socks in the morning, I will slip off the edge of the mattress if I’m not careful. I thought about my shop stool, and realized if I cut the legs down by about a foot, it would work perfect.
So I did. I took about a foot off the legs, cut the old stretchers free, drilled a few new holes, and remounted the (shortened) stretchers. Re-tabled the stool (getting all three legs equal length and sloped correctly so they sit flat on the floor) and that’s the finished project. Took me parts of two days, and works great for sitting on while I put on my socks in the morning.
