This Little Stool Is Mine

We made a little stool for J.'s Christmas, based on a Brasilian model that A. got at a garage sale. The materials came from unlikely places: after preaching at Yorktown we were asked to help move some junk out to the street. Amongst it was an old stair riser. This gave us the blanks for two stools. We got the little bandsaw working earlier by gluing the rubber onto the pulley with contact cement. The top was sanded by holding a belt sander sideways on the bench and running the edge around (just like the old bobbin sander days at Jim Holland's).
The legs came from a table that someone had discarded in the bulk pick-up. I set up a jig on the drill press so that a corner was higher. This was to give the legs a splayed out angle. The angle could have been bigger but the drill press was too small (all tools were given by my neighbour who used to make things for craft fairs: bandsaw, 19x3 inch belt sander, and drill press). The legs were reduced a little to fit the hole, and driven home. A sideways screw holds them in place (just like the model).
The Psalm 23 item came from an old calendar. The Hebrew alphabet was printed with a laser printer onto an overhead transparency. After painting the wood with modgepodge (white glue mixed with clear polyurethane varnish), the letters were glued on. Then the whole thing was painted with clear polyurethane.