Shop Stool

[EddyR]

Been looking for one of these for years. Saw it in a Good Will store and grabbed it. It is very heavy and has a foot stool built in and the seat can be locked at any height. Super heavy duty. So what are you guys using?
Ed

[Tom Luciano]

Ed,
  I came across 2 draftsman chairs a few months ago. I have one on each side of my bench. You can see the difference in height in this picturemail compared to a regular  office chair. I got lucky these things are expensive.
Tom

[Perry Rose]

An office swivel chair with rollers so I can scoot around the shop.

[Paul Smith]

An office swivel chair with rollers so I can scoot around the shop.

Exactly.  I buy a nice NEW chair for my office and downgrade the old one to my basement shop, then to my barn shop.

[Phil Krankowski]

The tops came loose on my old kitchen stools.  I drilled the wood and put carriage bolts to replace the tiny wood screws.  My wife said it was ugly and told me to go buy the new saddle stools for the kitchen and one old stool is in the garage, the other the basement.  Both of us are happy and the new stools look great in the kitchen.

I tend to build while standing so it works well.

Phil

[Bill Johnson]

This is what I'll be using as soon as I finish stripping the 5 or so coats of paint and the overhaul:





It was my father's. He was an engineer for Abbey Etna, a tube mill engineering firm in Toledo and Perrysburg Ohio. This was in our basement for as long as I can remember, back to the mid 1960s. It's doesn't look like it but it's comfortable to use for long periods. I just recently rescued it from my brother.

[Garf]

I inhereted a pair of bar stools a long time ago. I cut the legs to a comfortable height on one. After the termites got the first one, I modified the second and still am using it.

[EddyR]

Bill I would do a complete resto on that. Looks very stable.
Ed

[Randy Cuberly]

I have a high kitchen stool I stole from my wife but discovered it doesn't work for me!  I simply wind up getting, up and down, up and down, up and down...more work and wear and tear on the old Bod than just standing at the bench...I basically use it as a "catch all" table! 
I'd give it back to the wife but then it would just be a catch all table in the kitchen...besides it's ugly!

Randy Cuberly

[Ara Dedekian]

        Here's mine.

       My father made it for me when I was in high school in 1958-59. We were both possesed hobbyists (by definition of my mother) working next to each other in the basement. Me on my models and motor cycle and he on violins, furniture, paintings. At 5'2", he saw I was struggling working over my bench and created the chair.

       The significance of it was that due to continual bench clutter it was often the only clear flat surface in the shop and doubled more as a building surface/paint stand. I remember the better part of a Sterling Spitfire Stunt and a PDQ Clown being built on it back then.

       It's still in use.

       Ara

[Bill Johnson]

The significance of it was that due to continual bench clutter it was often the only clear flat surface in the shop and doubled more as a building surface/paint stand.        Ara

Now I remember why mine has so many coats of paint on it!