Bench Stool Tools

A quick look at the tools you will need to build the Bench Stool

If you have built chairs before or if you built the Hearth Stool most of this post may be irrelevant unless you like to talk about tools, which to be honest is most woodworkers I know. In most situations I feel tools take center stage and suck all the oxygen out of the room. So I tend to avoid tool conversations altogether.

This in some ways is a place of privilege for me, growing up in the craft. I’m well versed in what quality tools look like and how they perform. I also do not derive any sort of meaning or identity from my tools, they are secondary to the work and only make me a better crafts person to the extent that I know how to use them.

For someone new to the craft this is most likely not the case so I am going to talk about what you will need to build the bench stool. I will keep this post high level to get you started and have other posts coming that we take little dives into alternative methods to my workflow in case you have a tool limitation. If you feel like you are unable to make this stool because you lack a specific tool that is out of your budget please comment and we can talk through it to see if you can accomplish it with what you have.

I am going to link specific tool makers and make brand suggestions. I am in no way sponsored or promoted by these brands or sellers; they are simply the tools I have, use and would buy again. My goal is to simply point those of you who are buying new tools for this build towards tools I know will not frustrate you because they don’t perform properly.