Birthday bench
TOH Insider: Dan Melanz (shown with his mother, Donna Melanz, and canine companion Simon), Madison, WI
I made this bench out of cedar, assembling it entirely with mortise-and-tenon joinery and pegs. I shaped the curved pieces on the band saw, created tenons with my miter saw, and used a trick from Norm for cutting angled mortises on the drill press. The bench was a birthday gift for my mom.