Decades ago I built a table experimenting with a complex design, router inlays, a heat-controlled brass circumference ring, and removable legs.  I knew full well that I would have to design chairs to go with it but time slipped by.    Most of a lifetime later, having refinished the well-worn surface a couple of times, I was in a new, small, house––got the table out of storage,  set it in the spot for dining, and had no place to sit.   Time for chairs.

 

After the chair design proved up, I got an opportunity to build a memorial bench for a departed friend.  I had the new chair profile lying there, and some big spruce slabs, so the parts came together for the bench.   It has full weather exposure and at about four years old its weathering well.   The blue supports are powder coated mild steel.