Roubo Hybrid Bench from start to finish #1: Why & With What

I need a Bench

I don’t have a Bench except for my wee carving one

Many Shop projects have one thing in common

They don’t get finished and get put on hold

I know, I’ve started selecting timber for the bench many times

It oddly becomes part of a customers order

This time however I’m expecting an overseas visit from a fellow

Lumberjock

When?

I dont know yet, I only found out today

Who?

Well until I find out the date, let me keep that a secret.

So the idea is that I have the bench made for the arrival

of my Lumberjock guest to be the first person to use it

So I’m under no pressure. LoL

LJ’s has so much inspiration, there are so many magnificent

benches on the site, where do you begin

Well with me, it has been by clearing out my old driveway

This is where I found the this piece of timber

It came from a tree that came down in the Rabbie Burns storm

of 1990 (more on that later lest I wander) It is the piece that you

would never use in a piece of cabinetwork

It has everything going against it

It is the downward curved branch (limb sounds better?) at the

lower level of the tree.

It got buried under the main tree and there is so much rot around

it then there is the split

Even my dog Thembi does not think much of it.

Ok I’m going to cut it and see what I get.

Yours
Jamie
in a drizzly Scotland

-- Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe