Recycled Stool

This chair from my kids room had seen better days and it landed up in the garage to be dismantled & trashed.

Now, as a compulsive recycler I just hated to throw the piece away.

So, I decided to convert it into a stool that we could use in other room needing on-demand seating for visitors esp., for the gaming friends to huddle up.

It turned out to be fairly straight-forward and easy to remove the top. Holding the top piece and the rolling base was this plate and 4 screws.

The old pinewood top from the kids room, I thought, was the right candidate for the job.

Using a makeshift circle cutting jig I cut out three 16" dia circles

- Two sourced from the pine tabletop.

- And one from a 1/2" birch plywood.

Thought of adding in the 1/2" plywood for strength and proofing a bit against abuse.

Routed the edges with the 1-1/4" radius round over edging router bit .

Guess it turned out pretty good.