This stool is 18" tall and the seat is 13" d. The seat is gummy cherry. The legs and stretchers are ash. The inlay is wenge. I like to leave inlays raised slightly and pillowed over on the edges.
This is the first time I tried the x-brace stretchers. One stretcher runs between two legs and has a hole bored through it. The other two are tenoned into it and pegged. A little carving makes it appear as though the stetchers are mitered in the center.
Brian Millspaw