Had a lot of discarded lumber left from my bench build. Decided to turn them into an outdoor bench. Table saw and miter saw were used for rough dimensioning. Hand jointed all boards and used planer to get to thickness. Re-flattened the planned faces - and - if only you could see my happiness on seeing the stack of boards stick with each other with hand pressure. This was a big big pain when I did my bench.
Flattened and planned the faces of slabs using hand planes this time instead of struggling to feed the slab through planer. Squaring the end grain part of slab was a pain.
Legs and back fit into mortise in slabs. After initial hand chiseling, I ended up with a un-flat mortise bottom. Used a router plane to make it level but failed. It kept tearing the wood. Gave up and used a powered router to fix it and then used epoxy + screws for strength and gap filling. Rounded the edges with router. Finished with Penofin. Added .25" plastic sheet attached to legs to prevent ground contact.
Overall, happy with how it came out. Except back, most parts are roughly 3" thick. Back ended up 2" thick. This made the bench heavy. Getting it off my workbench gave me and my wife a good workout.
Some pictures:
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