Project Information
This was a really fun first project, I found this in Fine Woodworking's Basic Skills special issue and thought it looked like something I could actually, maybe, finish and not have it fall apart. A deceptive little project, there is quite a bit of joinery going on here, for a noob anyway.
The bench is made of white pine, an old 1×12 board that had been in my basement since some shelving project years back. The parts were cut to size on my table saw. After that is was all hand tools. Definitely need more practice planing boards straight and cutting dadoes by hand with a chisel. The through tenons are wedged with some spare bits of cherry I bummed off my father-in-law. The finish is just two coats of General Finishes Outdoor Oil. I was going for rustic, or at least figured that is what would come out the other end anyway. ;-)
So, it took me a month of Sunday's, but it was the most fun I've had using tools in a long time.
The bench is made of white pine, an old 1×12 board that had been in my basement since some shelving project years back. The parts were cut to size on my table saw. After that is was all hand tools. Definitely need more practice planing boards straight and cutting dadoes by hand with a chisel. The through tenons are wedged with some spare bits of cherry I bummed off my father-in-law. The finish is just two coats of General Finishes Outdoor Oil. I was going for rustic, or at least figured that is what would come out the other end anyway. ;-)
So, it took me a month of Sunday's, but it was the most fun I've had using tools in a long time.