Tips & Techniques

A No-Tip Stool

Discover a simple trick to making perfectly sturdy step stools.

Issue 258 - April/May 2016
Edited and illustrated by Charles Miller

At the age of 10, I was taught to build this step stool by my 85-year-old neighbor. That was 51 years ago, and no matter where on this stool I stand, even near the edge, it will not tip. The key is how the legs splay from the corners at about a 30° angle.

— John Lockwood; Clarksburg, NY

From Fine Homebuilding #258

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