Scrap wood minibench

Instructions

First job was to try to salvage the cupped, rough boards. So they got planed down to about 20mm thick (One a little under that but it doesn't show). The 60cm length became the top, taped up and Shaper-cut with a 59cm circle (on tool) to radius the ends. Just for fun, I tried using the Whiteside 1/4" point cutting roundover bit on the edges and, what-d'ya-know? it worked (But my trim router is quicker and saves on expensive Shaper tape) Ripped 20mm off each side of the 58cm plank to reinforce the seat edges for stiffness and glued/pinned/clamped them to the top. Legs were cut with Shaper using the 3/8" Whiteside point cutting roundover bit to make a rope twist design. After routing, the waste was cut off with a jig saw (I don't have a bandsaw yet) and sanded back to the routed detail. Mortices were cut in the legs with Shaper and Plate. Tenons cut on Workstation and rounded over with my trim router (instead of chucking up the point cutting bit again. The rope ring is 100mm across so it could be cut with Plate and the 1/4" point cutting roundover bit. I used a 0.4mm offset to cut 'outside' each rope twist component of this SVG and did not cut the inner or outer paths. Finished it in Fiddes exterior high build wax oil (which takes a long time to dry!) Made a couple of sort-of-matching coasters out of some of my hemlock offcuts from the desk build, with the same rope ring on. All in all, I'm glad this scrap wood didn't end up as kindling. The grain is really quite nice and it doesn't show in the photos but the lighter wood on the top has a pleasing chatoyance in sunlight. My neighbour loves it on her deck, where it's doing two jobs, as a spare stool and a beer/coffee table beside her sun lounger. CAUTION. The point cutting router bits are not suitable for automatic z touches. Do it the old fashioned way or you'll either break the tip or cut too deep, or both. (This is not hypothetical. Be warned.)