Designed and built this arts and crafts style bench for a couple’s entry hall, essentially as a shoe bench with a shelf. Quartersawn White oak. I glued up the each leg as five pieces to have quartersawn faces on all sides. I’m still debating if it’s actually worth all the time, and clamps! Yeah, probably is.

I finished it using Jeff Jewitt’s mission finish process - dye, SealACell, dark stain wipe on and off, ArmRSeal satin. Worked very well, love the results but it took longer to do the whole finishing process than it did to actually build it.

It’s a small piece but complicated with all the joinery and through tenons of a larger piece (like a coffee table) but compressed. Not the most profitable piece but a lot of fun, and I learned a ton. I’ve never done a full-on mission piece like this. They now want a tall sideboard with glass doors in a matching style. Glad I took notes on the dye and stain process!

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