How Do You Cut down Bar Stool Legs?
Shortening a bar stool sounds simple until the finished seat rocks on the floor or the cut end starts drinking up mop water. This guide takes you through the job properly, beginning with the checks that tell you whether your stool can be altered at all: solid timber and straight tubular metal legs are fair game, while gas lift columns and cast bases are not. You will learn how to choose a sensible finished seat height using the gap between seat and worktop, why every mark must be measured up from the floor rather than down from the seat, and how a block of scrap timber gives four identical lines on splayed legs. We also cover cutting technique, deburring metal tube, levelling a stool that wobbles afterwards, sealing exposed end grain and knowing when replacing beats cutting....
