This section is from the "Elementary Turning" book, by Frank Henry Selden. Also available from Amazon: Elementary Turning.
The top of this stool is 14 inches in diameter by 1 3/4 inches thick. The legs are but 18 inches long, which includes the 1-inch tenon entering the top. The crosspieces are 10 1/2 inches above the floor, and the legs are 10 1/2 inches apart from surface to surface at this point.

Fig. 256. Turned Stool.
The holes in the top are bored in a 10 1/2-inch circle. Read the description of No. 255, and compare it with this stool, and then work out a new design.
 
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