Bench Seat for Bathroom Vanity Cabinet

[Paul Jones]

I am not sure which forum category this project should be placed but I wanted to share the technique I used for constructing the seat legs.

This is a custom bench seat I build in 2012 for one of our secondary bathrooms. The bathroom has a custom vanity cabinetry I built with a seat opening at the mirror. The seat was constructed from red oak that I custom milled on a table saw using a molding head cutter. The only wood part purchased was the oak rope molding. The wood joints are glued with aliphatic resin glue using either wood biscuits (openings cut with joint planner), pocket screws (and most of the pocket screw holes are covered with ¼” thick red oak), or ¼ X 20 threaded rod, nuts and washers.

I think the most interesting parts of the project are the seat legs. The legs are constructed from various sections of oak with a 5/15” hole drilled through each center. The section with the fluted four-side pillar was constructed from three sections of ¾” red oak glued together and drilled down the center from both ends; cut into a square cross section, and fluted on my old Rockwell-Delta 9” table saw using a molding head cutter with three ¼” rounded-bottom flute cutters; and then sliced into sections on the miter saw. I used aliphatic resin glue (Titebond Original Wood Glue) on all the leg parts and then used the threaded rod to draw all the parts together while gluing and left in the leg. The legs are attached with pocket screws to the skirt under the top of the seat.