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Jef's Danish Stool

Finally finished it 10 months after starting it, a lot of stop-starting and numerous distractions aside. A challenging piece to get just right with all the compound angles, and Richard wasn't lying when he said you'll have no skin on your hands left after weaving the seat. The Danish paper cord is lovely stuff but hard to work with and really does strip your skin. Also, I discovered the hard way, it will actually break if you yank it hard enough, so take care you know the limits when tensioning it - i broke it half way through the main seat section, so had to engineer a tie-off and re-start which was quite fiddly to achieve without it looking really untidy. Lesson learnt! Also, tung oil takes forever to dry as soon as you go above a 50% ratio for the final coats- definitely a finish to apply in the hot summer months, not a manky October! Pretty pleased with it, glad its finally done, and might now get around to the spoon rack that was supposed to be my first project, 3 builds ago....