Here is the little Harp Stool, stained and sitting next to Evelyn’s Celtic harp:

Here is a shot with the harp on top. Evelyn will sit on the futon and practice. Having the harp at a better height makes this easier.

Would you believe that the whole thing was made with only 26″ of 1×10 pine? I sliced a ~9 1/2″ piece for the top, four 2 1/2″ for the legs, and two 3″ for the stays. I would have used 1x4s or 1x3s for the legs, but didn’t have any on hand, and wanted to make it the nicest scrap-only piece I could.

Sometimes it’s a good challenge to build something out of inferior or inappropriate materials. It makes you work harder and learn more. I guess that’s what I get from all those years of IT work, where you had to run an infrastructure on rubber bands and prayer.