S1 E16 - The Burns' Bench Project 

I really appreciate this video, as I know the Burns family here in the UK 🇬🇧 👍🏼

Lovely finish with the combi of the stain and tung oil mate. Really makes the grain stand out doesn't it. That rich brown colour reminds of older furniture made in the 18th and 19th centuries where Van Dyke crystals were used to stain them a lot. I've used them to restore some turned fencing round my brothers old fireplace and its a lovely brown. Nice to see you're starting to buy rough sawn and then mill it yourself too. I know it adds a lot of time to the preparation but the big advantage is you get dead straight and flat edges to deal with and you rarely have that luxury with pre surfaced material because of moisture related movement. You also get to use non standard thicknesses which for some reason I always find slightly more interesting to work with, no idea why, probably just less boring in some way as they're unique. Plus of course rough sawn is cheaper to buy. On smaller jobs, you can harvest it directly from air dried boards off the log as well which saves a ton of cost. Methinks you might need to invest in a planer (you guys call it a jointer). The reason I nought a planar thicknesser was so it could do both operations in one machine while saving workshop space. But its a lovely piece mate and doubtless heirloom quality :-)

Another thought occurred to me when you were straightening the sides with the guided spin saw, you could have left the front facing edge waney...I rather like that look although I guess this piece wasn't going in that direction was it.