re: Brave or Stupid?

I don’t feel any of my time has been wasted. For me it’s all educational and I enjoy checking out these type of situations. In fact so much so that I tried to draw the joint and show my attachment method for the heck of it.
(Hope you don’t mind)
The following is just for conversation if anybody is interested.
My drawing is not correct but I think it gets the point across of how I would entertain doing it.
I don’t know how well it would work, but that is what’s fun about discussing it.
In a nutshell, (up for opinions)
I would make 8 separate legs from solid material with the proper angles cut on the ends.
I would bolt the top and bottom legs together for each diagonal section first.
Then I would draw bolt the two halves together to make a side,
Then I would dowel the two sides together. Glueing the crap out of everything.
Here’s my pics. I don’t know if this would be strong enough or not, but it is what I was thinking if I had to do it. What do you think?