The top and live edges in the legs were from a slab of cherry, though I didn’t know it at the time. It was lying in a friend’s back yard in the dirt (actually mud; it had been raining) and was very heavy, which tipped me off that it was a hardwood. The legs and spreaders – also cherry – were scraps left over from a CD and record cabinet that I had built for the same friend as a wedding present. Strange, but true, and – believe it or not – the day I found the cherry slab was the day of the wedding! He is not a wood worker and I have (and he has) no idea where the slab came from, or how long it had been lying around in his yard. 

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