After applying the first coat of the medium walnut Danish oil...
After 15 minutes, applying a second coat of the Danish oil...
Rubbed off the excess after another 15 minutes.
It should be good to go (& touch) after drying overnight.
When designing the legs, I thought about making the verticals full length and the horizontals shorter and have it go between the verticals. It would have looked better because you wouldn't be able to see the end grain of the horizontal pieces then.
Also, the legs would look taller without the horizontal pieces being visible from the side.
I decided against it because structurally, the way I built it is more stable and the attachment to the bench would also be more stable. Function before form...
The other option would have been to do a 1/2 lap joint at the corners to visually keep the full length on the sides and hide the end grain. This would have been pretty tricky because of the 5 degree angle to the verticals. It could have been done...
Just set the bench on the legs for now.
Ordered some threaded inserts for the wood so that the legs can be bolted on. That way it will be easy to remove the legs in the future (possibly replace the legs with something better...).
