Three Legged chair

[garretttcrooks]

I have seen a few stools like this, and i was wondering how i can replicate them, they seem fairly easy,just canvas and dowels.... i just dont know how to hold the three legs togather.....please help
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3544/3390851636_e9cc874e42.jpg?v=0

[KeystoneGuard]

Garrett,
Have you ever been in the Boy Scouts? If so the art of lashing will be your best bet. Start out by lashing a simple tripd to proper height and then attach a piece of canvas and presto you've got the stool. Just my 2 cents...

[hanktrent]

I think those kind of stools are meant to fold, so they're not lashed. Here's a period patent (http://www.google.com/patents?id=kH9sAAAAEBAJ&pg=PP1&dq=stool+three+legs&as_drrb_ap=q&as_minm_ap=0&as_miny_ap=&as_maxm_ap=0&as_maxy_ap=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1810&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1865&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2) for something similar that might give you an idea. The designer claims the central ball to be the unique feature, implying that other kinds were made without it. No idea whether his particular patent made it into production, became common, or what.

Here's (http://books.google.com/books?id=MeMRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA125&dq=three+legged+camp+stool+date:0-1865&output=html)another description of one, from 1841, twenty years before the above patent:

It consists of three sticks of wood about the size of the leg of a chair and half as long again. These three sticks are united in the middle by a piece of iron that operates as a swivel, so that the sticks can be turned about at that point. The top of the sticks is kept from spraeding beyond a certain distance by broad strips of canvas or cloth nailed thereto. This forms the seat of the stool, the other half from the center downwards constitutes the legs, so that when the stool is used, it is a three-legged stool, in shape like an hour glass. When it is desirable to reduce it to a portable shape, the three parts are brought close together and secured with a string.

Hank Trent
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[Southern Cal]

I had such a "chair" from Mexico, much like the example shown in those patent plans. The seat was leather and removable with the corners slipping on and off of the sticks. Whatever the material, you'll want to round off somewhat the ends of the three sticks supporting the seat and heavily reinforce the seat corners. Otherwise the seat will wear out over time from the hard edges of the sticks pressing on the corners and suddenly dump your butt in the dirt. Ole' dusty bum knows.

[tompritchett]

Otherwise the seat will wear out over time from the hard edges of the sticks pressing on the corners and suddenly dump your butt in the dirt.

Considering how you are most likely to be sitting in such a chair, having your fanny dumped in the dirt would be the least of your worries if a corner suddenly gave out.

[Southern Cal]

Considering how you are most likely to be sitting in such a chair, having your fanny dumped in the dirt would be the least of your worries if a corner suddenly gave out.

Does the name "Vlad the Impaler" ring a bell?