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The bench’s legs are standard stile-and-rail construction, with a twist: Both stiles and rails are built-up laminations. This allows you to assemble the leg sets with mortise-and-tenon joints without ever having to chop a single mortise.

Cut all the leg parts (including the feet, pieces 31) to the sizes on the Material List on page 14. Then, dry fit the stile center laminations (pieces 32) to the outside laminations (pieces 33); their dimensions are shown on the leg elevations on page 14. Face glue and clamp each set of three laminations together to create four individual legs, and then set them aside.

Don’t be overly anxious about perfect matches or glue squeeze-out—after the glue dries, you can scrape off any excess and then joint the uneven edges.

Use the elevation drawings to lay out the top and bottom rails’ outside laminations (pieces 34 and 35), and then cut these to shape on your band saw. Dry fit these and the rail center laminations (pieces 36) to the legs, and then temporarily clamp them in place. Use this setup as a template to lay out and mark the foot and top inserts (pieces 37 and 38), as shown in Figure 4. Trim the inserts to size on your band saw, glue and clamp each legset together, and set them aside to dry.

Figure 4: Dry fit the legset parts together, and then use this as a template to determine the shape of the foot and top inserts.