Simple Wooden Bar Stool Designs and Plans

FREE Simple Wooden Bar Stool Designs and Plans - All right. So I did mention this is a full wood bar, which means we're going to be using some great quality would, starting with a 3/4-inch piece of ply. You're going to need about three sheets of that. Then we're going to use something for the decorative elements called figured ply, which is just a little thicker. And it's actually solid wood. And Rob will tell us more about that in just a little bit. You're also going to need no stain for this, no paint. We're going straight up shellac. We're going with that amber shellac. And we'll talk about that in a little bit, too. And you're going to want some denatured alcohol just in case you get the shellac anywhere else. Like my fingers were completely yellow earlier. So that helped out a lot. Now, you're also going to need this bad boy here. This is a corbel. All right. And this is a solid wood element made with a decorative scroll. That's going to actually act as an accent for our bar. OK. So these are the basic materials. You don't need too much.

Now, wooden designer bar stools keep in mind, if that's too expensive for you because birch sometimes, the finished birch can be a little expensive, you can always opt for a lesser-grade wood. Now, as far as tools, you're going to need a wide array of tools for this, starting with your circular saw. If you have a table saw, that's definitely going to help you make those larger cuts because this bar that we made is completely ginormous. It's about six foot long by, I don't know, about three foot tall. All right. So get yourself a circular. You're going to want a nail gun, a router, a sanding device, and a couple drills. All right. We're creating a pretty beefy bar at six feet long by two feet deep. So first we need to make a solid base structure for this bar using 3/4-inch birch plywood. So we cut and assemble two sides, a top, bottom, and front, and tacked it all together.

To give it a flawless appearance, we attach the pieces using pocket-hole joinery which hides your screws in the back of the boards. Once that's assembled, bar stool with backrest plans we sanded it all down, flipped it on its side, and put on the casters. Now we're ready to move on to the front. Using 3/4-inch figured birch, which is a more decorative finishing birch, we created something that looks a lot like two picture frames next to each other, which creates depth and a decorative element to the front. Then we put on some beautiful wood corbels and route out a decorative edge for the bar top. Now we're almost ready to belly up to the bar. That's right. We are almost there. So we're going to finish this up live. And joining me in the studio is our resident carpenter extraordinaire, rolling in the bar, Mr. Rob North. What's up, pal? Hey, hey, hey. Good to see you, man. Heck of a job on this bad boy. It's not finished yet, folks.