We may receive a commission when you use our affiliate links. However, this does not impact our recommendations. Batching Out Seats I recently completed a batch of 10 walnut Hearth Stools. When making a single stool, I still make it primarily by hand as outlined in the original article , but once I’m making more than 3, I start incorporating jigs and break my flow into value-added process steps, completing each step for all the parts at once. For this stool, the seats are probably the easiest thing to streamline, so I’ll share how I’ve chosen to do that. With the seats being perfectly round as compared to a chair, one of the biggest advantages is that the sight lines radiate from the center of the seat, making the intersecting of sight lines and the seat center the same point. With the seat dishing being a symmetrical dish, this allows me to use the seat depth hole on the top of the seat as a pivot center on jigs for cutting the seat to size and for drilling and reaming.…