Day Seven-seventy-six: more hamper madness

When we left off the stiles were ready for sealing and much else needed to be done. Some of that happened. Down in the basement we're diligently applying our non-toxic sealer to protect the wood and add some depth to the color. The Kentucky coffee tree is a really nice wood but is somewhat pale when unfinished. Here's the sealing sweatshop in progress. We figured these would be much easier to work with before everything's assembled. So far we like our decision.

And outside we had to do some work on the redheart wood we're using for the legs. Mostly this consisted of uncovering the beauty in this wood with a lot of sanding. Here are some before and after shots to show you what we started with (probably reclaimed wood) and what was hiding beneath.

And here are all four legs done and ready to cut to size (24 inches) and router the dowel holes for the cross beams.