If you're looking to upgrade your kitchen or bar area, these bar stools are the perfect way to do so. They're easy to make and low maintenance. They'll look ideal in any home, but particularly if you live in the mountains or a wooded area. It's a way to bring the outside safely inside. You won't find them at any typical furniture store or online. Before the end of the day, you'll be able to redecorate a room in your home using these natural bar stools.

Step 1: Get Your Hands on Some Free Log Wood

Due to extreme winds in my community many trees have fall down so I asked the authorities if i can remove them from the way and take the wood.

Step 2: Cutting the Logs

I used again my Milwaukee sawzall with a 10 inch sawzall blade , it take about an hour to cut all the 8 pieces.

Step 3: Plaining Flat

I used a Router with a flat 3/4 cutter and some guides.

Step 4: Bark Removal

After removing all the bark I rounded the edges

Step 5: Rebar Bending

After cutting all the pieces to size I star to bend all the parts , I used my home-made bender of course you can use a construction rebar bending tool but that one make sharper bends.

Step 6: Welding the Base

The base is made from 2 bases and 2 back supports with 4 transversal reinforcements there its more details in the video in how I aligned the pieces for welding, A very useful tool its the jawhorse with the welding jaws.

Step 7: Attaching the Wood

The logs are attached from the bottom with drywall screws , and in the back I drilled 1/2 inch holes into the logs and glued with construction glue .

Step 8: The Finish

Polyethylene glycol, this one seems to be the safest, please dont confuse this with dietilene or etilene do your research.

Sugar, water with sugar this also has been a old technique replacing the water with sugar in the structure of the cellulose but also it seem to have correct results you have to leave them in the solution for months and i have no time or space for that.

Glycerine , this one its the one i used and i have to tell that it have a 50 to 70 percent of being succesful at least with the type of wood used in this project, the cracks are significant less than in the ones i did not applied anything. I applied several coats during 3 days

Have you been able to make these bar stools from logs and rebar? Let us know how it went in the comments below!

Article and Photo Source: Instructables