Thank you Gary and JL7.

Gary, maple would look nice. For mine I used cottonwood because it is something I had on hand, and I have plenty of it that was free.
When it’s all done, I will have exactly $0 in wood on this bench.

Jeff, still got a ways to go to get there. I drilled the dog holes yesterday. I will try to post another photo today. Those holes just about whipped my butt.

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.