Weekend Project: Rustic Benches
My wife commissioned me to make eight benches or stools to help her decorate a table for a charity event that was this evening. Since she insisted that I upgrade my table saw last month, I really could not argue.
So, this weekend, I put together four benches from a silver maple that I cut down two years ago and four from random boards that were left over from when our barn was re-built back in the 1950's (big stack of old wood behind the milking stalls).
Below is a picture of the four maple benches still in the process of being sprayed with some garnet shellac (my first attempt using my HF HVLP on a "larger" project). I think the grain really looks great, and I think the live edges and mortise and tennon joinery worked out well.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f1...tt/Benches.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f1...ett/bench3.jpg
Below are the benches used in the table decoration. This was my first large project using mortise and tennon joinery. It's not exactly fine woodworking, but I really enjoyed the process.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f1...t/Benches2.jpg
