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Seems I’ve been in a “bench” phase lately. This one started life in our side yard. I took it down a couple years ago to protect the house and a garage. It has been drying in our garage ever since. It’s about 24” long, 14” deep and 16” high. This one was also chainsaw split then planed/sanded. The seat is maple and the legs are white cedar. It doesn’t have a finish on it yet. I think it’ll get BLO and beeswax. This one is for our porch for putting boots on/off.
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MsDebbieP
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posted 244 days ago
excellent.. love these types of benches
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Jiri Parkman
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posted 244 days ago
:)
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Scott Bryan
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posted 244 days ago
This is a nice project. Making it from wood for which you know the history makes it priceless. There are some posts in the background are these from the same maple?
Did you slab out the maple or did you leave it in logs to dry it?
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GaryK
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posted 244 days ago
Rustic is the word for this one.
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Mick
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posted 244 days ago
We had cut the log into 3 slabs/sections to dry, which it did perfectly… no checks. It was origianlly about 18” thick. I still have the center and 1 side section. I want to mill the center into nice lumber. Thanks to all for the kind comments. I just like working with rustic “stuff”. I’m not a fine furniture kinda guy (although I can appreciate it). Rustic gives me room for… ... errors that give it personality.
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CedarFreakCarl
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posted 244 days ago
Love it!
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