"Chris Nellist" wrote in
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"nightjar" wrote in
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"Chris Nellist" wrote
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Could someone please help me with what sort of wood I need,
and where I might get it?

For a basic stool, joinery quality timber from a timber merchant.

Hi and many thanks for this. But what do I actually ask for?

You ask for joinery quality timber. Any wooden chair should give you a guide
to suitable sizes.

Can you give some examples of suitable stuff and what it's
called?

It is called joinery quality timber.

Colin Bignell