Birthing stool

[Bolt]

My good lady wife is due any day now (#3) and looks fit to burst.

 

No2 child was supposed to be a home birth, but due to a series of hilarious events we ended up having the baby in the maternity unit.

 

This time, a home birth is planned again.

 

What I need (she declares a few weeks ago) is a birthing stool. Any chance you could carve me one up.

 

TBH, I don’t do carving (and I am rather proud that in over 20 years I have never made even a mushroom (but I am not dissing those that have)). I am simply more into destruction than construction!!

 

Did a bit of Google research to find out what its all about....

 

 

This is how they once were (you can probably work out how it works yourself)

 

 

The new ones arn't quite so pretty!!

 

 

 

Anyway, It’s a poor plan to turn a heavily pregnant woman down, so I kept my eyes open on the felling course I was taking, and grabbed myself a 'prime' willow fork.....

 

 

... and set to work :biggrin:

[Bolt]

 

Bit of initial chopping down to size.

 

 

The Basic shape is not too much of a problem.

 

 

Loose bark! Dead wood! All work halted by the environmental auditor so she can undertake a bat survey :lol:

[Stephen Blair]

ha ha, awesome. poor dad must do as pregnant wifey says. You know and i know this has nothing to do with the stool, its a test so see you are WILLING to help, so getting someone else to make you the PERFECT stool is not the answer, roll up your sleeves, get the hulking bit of wood right outside the living room window and let her see you go through a bit of pain and sweat, that is what she really wants. And guess what, she will probably never use it but it will get you a lot of browny points, obviously you must delete this post the second you read it in fear of her ever finding out.

 

PS use a mallet and chisel, electric or petrol power will be cheating as you will be having fun:laugh1:

[Bolt]

sooooo true Mr Blair (though I think at some point I used every tool I own)...

 

The outline coming along nicely (neighbours a little annoyed by the noise )

 

 

24" bar makes short work of cutting the log neatly in two

 

 

And hey-presto. One half for the seat (and one for the woodshed:thumbup1:)

 

Its kind of the right shape, but at this point, I had no idea how to do the legs:confused1:

[Bolt]

Sanding, sanding, sanding!

 

Thought it would take forever...

 

 

AND I still had no idea how to do the legs (the stool is supposed to be about 12" high.

 

Then, one night in bed - in a bad mood -

 

Inspiration!!!

 

 

Retrive the offcut from the log shed...

 

and it is done :thumbup:

[Bolt]

The environmental department ruled out creosote. Used some varnish type stuff instead.

 

 

 

The finished effect.

 

 

 

I really am quite pleased (although the recent "book chair" posted is so much in a different league, I almost didn't have the nerve to post)

 

 

 

Anyway, to my darling wife......

 

 

..... :001_smile:Its over to you now:001_smile:

[Stephen Blair]

wow, you had the guts to leave a topper beside a carving, the topper police will be spitting out their earl grey as we speak ha ha. that is awesome, now take it and show the mrs and await her emotionless looks of ' IS THAT IT? '. She will want a stone birthing pool now just incase.

[Bolt]

wow, you had the guts to leave a topper beside a carving, the topper police will be spitting out their earl grey as we speak ha ha. that is awesome, now take it and show the mrs and await her emotionless looks of ' IS THAT IT? '. She will want a stone birthing pool now just incase.

 

Don't worry about the MS200t. It was out so I could fix the kill switch.

 

 

The 338 was out only for carb tuning. Honest.

[josharb87]

nice one! haha, wonder how many treesurgeons have carved a birthing stool!!!

 

like the todler sitting next to the 020, definatly not wrapped in cotton wool!!

[Stephen Blair]

all joking aside mate that is excellent!