Continuing my weekend woodworker course, I just finished the Harmony Garden Bench.

This presented a few challenges along the way, one being that although I tried to build it accurately, it came out jagged as all git out after the assembly was complete.

Nothing a LOT of sanding couldn’t fix…

Then I wanted to stain it walnut color. But although I planned to wipe the stain off quickly, it took longer than I anticipated to get around all those slats.

I finished it off with a few layers of poly, and it looks very nice. I wouldn’t do it again, but this one turned out very nice, and was a great project to learn on.