Craftsmanship in Wood

Chris, here's my sawhorse: Disclaimers:
To avoid having to hand-cut mortices and sliding dovetails when replacing the sacrificial top, I just screwed it to the top beam.
I used round pegs throughout, though I like the square pegs and will use them in my next sawhorse.

I did the diagonal brace to post connection as in the original version, i.e. without a thru tenon and with a flat, parallel-to-floor bottom: The diagonal to top beam connection: Here's the diagonal brace crossing under construction: I did the post bottom and bottom brace connections per the original scheme, i.e. with double intersecting tenons. I lost a bit of wood inside the feet trying to get all those mortices in there, but once together it seems pretty solid. Unfortunately, I got so engrossed in the work I forgot to take pics.

Another fun, informative project. Thanks.
Looking forward to the next one.

Charlie,

clean job and well done on seeing it though! Glad you enjoyed the challenge. We'll see what I can come up with to stretch you on the next project. Or, maybe we'll do something less 'extreme'.

~C