Thanks to some helpful replies on an earlier thread, I (finally) finished the garden bench.
It looked pretty good to me with the square edges, mainly because it matched my crude sketchup drawing pretty well.
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But based on feedback I got, I rounded the arms and top ends with a rasp and chamfered the other edges with a block plane. Tried not to chamfer the places where parts met flush, but messed up a couple of spots.
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I originally intended to put it outside without any finish and let it decay gracefully, but the better half said she liked the bright colors of the wood so I put on a light coat of teak oil. Wish I hadn't, but I give it about 3 months outside before the oil disappears and she forgets it was ever oiled.
I think the back slats were the most difficult part, but it gave me a lot of practice doing mortises and tenons and they fortunately went together easily.