I bought bar stool chairs but they are too short for the bar area. Is there a way to make the chair stools longer in length?
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If you have a router, you can use the Beall Wood Threader. A kit to thread one-inch dowels is US$85. They have kits to do smaller sizes or multi-size kits. Parts are included to do both inside and outside threading.
You can find a hand tool on eBay.
Here's a source for ready-to-use threaded dowels in half-inch and three-quarter-inch diameters up to three feet in length.
Here is a source for metal hardware: Lee Valley Tools.
Additional information can be found by searching for "threaded dowel" or "piano stool threaded".
- Put the table/chair on a very flat and very horizontal surface. Ensure and double check with a levelgauge.
- shim the table/chair so that the top surface of the table/chair is level using the level gauge
- Take a pencil and tape it on a small block that is about the height you want the legs to shorten. Ensure that the block has parallel bottom and top planes.
- With the pencil on the block, scribe the legs of the table/chair and make marks all around.
- Cut precisely and carefully with a proper saw. Which is probably the hard part. If you start on a corner of a (square) table leg, make sure you cut on the cutting line on two faces.
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Watch this video by Chris Schwarz: level the feet of a chair or sawbench
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Best Answer
Um, not really. Unless you got the stools from a mix & match furniture store like Ikea where you can buy the legs separately from the seat.
There are approximately 3 standard chair/table height combinations:
Table height (e.g. a standard dinning table; seat height ~18 inches, surface height ~30 inches)
Counter height (e.g. a kitchen counter; seat height ~24 inches, surface height ~36 inches)
Bar height (e.g. a bar or "high-top" tables; seat height ~30 inches, surface height ~42 inches)
Sounds like you have "counter height" stools with a "bar height" surface.