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Shop Stool Build Off

The Results by Chris Wong

Posted on February 14, 2014

This is a long post because there are lots of prize winners for the Shop Stool Build-Off! If you are listed as a winner, but have not received an e-mail from me, please contact me to organize the delivery of your prize!

Thank you to all the participants, sponsors, judges, and everyone who voted. Nearly 750 votes from readers of my blog were tallied and the Shop Stool Build-Off was a success well beyond anything that I had imagined!

Sponsors

Please visit the websites of the sponsors and check out the prizes they have provided:

• Black & Decker
  • DeWalt Cordless Oscillating Tool
  • Porter Cable 20V Lithium Ion Drill
• Bridge City Tool Works
  • Signed edition of Quality is Contagious: John Economaki & Bridge City Tool Works, 36 Years Through the Lens of Joe Felzman
• Canadian Woodworking & Home Improvement Magazine
  • 1 year subscription to the magazine
• Hand Tool School
  • any 1 semester of The Hand Tool School
• Hock Tools
  • Spokeshave kit
• Microjig
  • Advanced GRR-RIPPER (GR-200)
  • GRR-RIP Block (GB-1)
  • MICRODIAL Tapering Jig (TJ-5000)
• Lee Valley Tools
  • Veritas Pullshave
• Milwaukee Tool
  • (5) Shockwave Drilling & Driving 35-piece Bit Sets
• Popular Woodworking Magazine
  • 1 year subscription (or extension) to the magazine
  • a copy of Marc Spagnuolo’s Hybrid Woodworking
• Scott Meek Woodworks
  • Make a Wooden Smoothing Plane with Scott Meek DVD
• Time Warp Tool Works
  • (3) Sets of 3″ Bench Dogs
• The Wood Whisperer
  • 1 year guild membership

Judges

I hand-picked a panel of judges to evaluate the stools on a variety of criteria with which I provided them. Their job was not easy and they deserve a big “thank you”!

• Judson Beaumont & Straight Line Designs
• Rob Brown of Equinox Interiors and Canadian Woodworking Magazine
• Megan Fitzpatrick of Popular Woodworking
• Jessica Hall
• Robert Hitzig
• Morgan Holt of Earth Art Landscape & Design
• Vic Hubbard of Tumblewood Creations
• Tom Iovino of Tom’s Workbench
• Paul Limewski of Canadian Woodworks
• Scott Meek of Scott Meek Woodworks
• Meredith Nicole of Oden Gallery
• Dyami Plotke of Penultimate Woodshop
• Marc Spagnuolo of The Wood Whisperer
• Fay Wong
• Stephen Z of Stephen Z Metal Designs

Andrew Coholic’s CNC-cut shop stool earned the title of Best Concept Among Canadian Stools and won him a Shockwave Drilling & Driving 35-piece Bit Set from Milwaukee Tool.

Forty-two percent of judges agreed that Alex Leslie’s T-stool was The Most Daring Designand for that, he won a 1-year subscription to Canadian Woodworking & Home Improvement from Canadian Woodworking & Home Improvement Magazine.

He had an interesting description of his design, too.

The art of balancing and pivoting on this stool keeps the user alert and awake. If one dozes off, the resulting fall will either awaken the user or cause more prolonged unconsciousness.