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Here is a description of the plan; I drew it out (somewhat sloppily), but the drawing is too big to scan in. I'll try to rectify this sometime soon. The bench has six legs, 1½" square. Four of them are "bench legs", 14" long, and two are "table legs", 22" long. The middle pair of legs is joined by a rail which extends 8" above the top of the legs to support the table top. The bench legs are connected (along the length) by 2½" tall rails and ¾" tall stretchers. (I may make the rear stretcher taller.) The middle pair of legs and the table legs are connected by a 3½" tall back rail and ¾" tall stretchers. The side rail connecting the table legs is 3½" tall. The side rail connecting the outer bench legs is a 5" tall rectangle which has been cut in half along the diagonal and lap-mortised back together into a single piece. All joints are mortise-and-tenon. All mortises are ¼" wide and 1" deep. The mortises which receive the rails are 1¼" tall, and those which receive the stretchers are ¾" tall. All mortises are centered on the width of the legs, except those which receive the side rail connecting the outer bench legs and the back rail of the table; these are ¼" from the outside of the legs. |