Synopsis: With its knife-edge seat and turned legs, this bench has the classic proportions and simplicity of a Shaker piece, but designer Michael Robbins felt it needed something original to make it stand out. A curved brass bar connecting the seat with the lower stretchers proved to be just what was needed to bring the form together. The legs are turned and join the seat at an angle, using wedged through-tenons. The stretchers are turned with a flat center section that is rotated to hold the flat brass bar at the correct angle. From issue #267—Mar/Apr 2018

This bench came into being in two stages. It existed as a top and four legs for a year or so, moved from here to there around the shop, all the while unfinished and collecting dust. I knew the bench needed something. With its knife-edge seat and splayed turned legs, it had the…