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Made this Butternut slab bench/seat with walnut inlays. I thought about doing full through cuts with the legs but the slab was 3.5" thick and I don't have the right tools for the job. Instead, I did some walnut inlays to give the through look(whatever that's called).
Finished with natural stain finish and 3 coats of Waterlox tung oil.
Thanks for looking.

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Very nice work - the through joint you are referring to is a "through Mortise and Tenon"
The inlays certainly make it look like you have done them! well done!
 

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Very nice - butternut is becoming pretty scarce
 

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How are the legs attached?

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They're sitting in a mortise about 3/4" deep with lots of glue. :) Nice and solid, no screws.
 

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I love it. A question on the finish. You used natural stain then Waterlox. I'm working on my first project using Waterlox and love it. Why did you stain first? Imho, the Waterlox does a beautiful job highlighting the natural grain. Of all the new stuff I'm learning, finishing is the most confusing for me.
 

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I love it. A question on the finish. You used natural stain then Waterlox. I m working on my first project using Waterlox and love it. Why did you stain first? Imho, the Waterlox does a beautiful job highlighting the natural grain. Of all the new stuff I m learning, finishing is the most confusing for me.

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Honestly, I didn't think about that and probably should have just used waterlox. I also didn't put waterlox on the legs, or underneath, so I still had to use something on the bench so it look relatively close in color.

I'm not that good with finishing, it's still a learning curve for me.
 

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You have certainly done justice to that beautiful piece of butternut. I'm not sure I would allow anyone to actually sit on it.
 

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Fantastic work!!
 

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That's really nice!
Is the bench top heavy, will it tip over easily?
 

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That s really nice!
Is the bench top heavy, will it tip over easily?

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I don't have an exact weight, but the bench is actually fairly light. And the pictures make the legs look smaller, not as wide, but they're actually only 2-3" smaller so it shouldn't tip. "shouldn't" ha
 

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That's a great looking bench-elegant in its simple beefiness!
 

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The slab is awesome. Where I live, you can only cut butternut that is already dead; a developer near me is being held up, because of one live butternut on the land parcel.
 

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The slab is awesome. Where I live, you can only cut butternut that is already dead; a developer near me is being held up, because of one live butternut on the land parcel.

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Oh wow. That's crazy. I bought all this old milled wood from a tree guy I know for cheap and some of the pieces are awesome looking after they're planed and whatnot.
 

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This is a beautiful bench. Good job, and the finish is nice.

I have a 20" maple in the front yard that has to come down. I asked the tree guy to cut the first three sections in 8 foot logs. There is a mill about 10 miles away that will mill them for reasonable. Your 3" slab looks like a good size for some of it. I know nothing about milling logs. I hope the miller can advise me how to get good wood.
 
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