I like this more than I should, it warms something inside me. Based on the saw bench in Chris Schwarz' Anarchist Design book, I did make a couple cosmetic changes.
One, it is a little too tall to be a bench for handsawing, though I can cut it down later. It is a good height for drying knee high winter boots in the room with the wood stove, though much further away than pictured. It is also about the same height as my old three legged stool. A bit too tall for sitting to relax, but at my bench I can essentially clamp myself to my bench at this seat height with the sole of my foot on the front stretcher and my knee wedged under the bench top. Works better in boots than flip flops, but I think you can see it.
Top is 8/4 poplar, nominal 9x17 inches. Legs and wedges are hickory, PVA glue. I did cut a relief around the bottom edge to lighten up the look a little bit. Also, the designer has the legs tapering from 1.5" at the top to 1.75 inches at the foot. I kept the dimensions but flipped the taper.
Sight lines at 64 degress, resultant angle 14 degrees, all that stuff right out of the book.
I did make one error (well, several errors) when turing the legs. On the first billet once I had it to round I was cutting with a parting tool to get to the major diameter, lowered the handle just enough to accidently get the parting tool to make a planing cut instead of a scraping cut, and overshot. On the others I got to the finished diameters in several places with my duplicator, then roughed with a gouge, cut in matching mistake lines with the parting tool and "finished" shaping with planing skew cuts. Once it was together I was able to clamp the top down and smooth up the legs quite a bit with a spokeshave, so they look round but have a nice sort of faceted surface in hand. Some day I will be good at planing cuts with a skew, I think it is sort of like directions to Carnegie Hall, practice, practice, practice.
Finish is three coats of thick soap paste.
I will give it a few days to grow on me and then put a new/ different picture in my office furniture thread.
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