After rough dimensioning on the table saw and thicknesser.
I then cut the two 6x3” ash pieces to length and halved them for the legs.
I also cut one of the 6x3 off-cuts into four pieces for the rails.
I then chopped all the mortices, almost entirely with an old oak handled 1” firmer chisel. It held up really well, better than I did at least-my carpal tunnel syndrome returned in full force after completing these.
I strayed a bit from the Moravian bench by only going for 2 rails and switching up the joinery a bit.
Each leg has one angled through mortice for the stretcher then one straight through mortice and one inverse dovetail (dovetailed bridle joint?) for the rails.
My logic was that I could make more efficient use of materials if I canted the top rail over by the same angle as the leg splay I wouldn’t have to plane down the top flush.
I drawbored the mortice and tenons, but stopped short of doing the same for the dovetailed bridle joint. (In the end I didn’t even glue it. . . hopefully that won’t be an issue down the line)
I also radiused all the edges, mainly free hand with a spokeshave and rasp, so it looks a little softer, but mainly because the ash I’d used was really splintery.
The final step was boring the holdfast holes, as you can see I was lucky with the size of my largest brace.