Set of benches completed

7/3/17, 7:29 PM #1

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7/3/17, 10:47 PM #2

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Those look great. I like that design.

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7/4/17, 12:16 AM #3

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Adapted from something I saw at Colonial Williamsburg.

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7/4/17, 1:20 AM #4

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Really nice work, JL!

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Novice woodworker, tool-collecting nut, Trying to learn as I go using magazines, books, TV and the web as references. Live in Florence, SC. 63 years old/young (take yer pick). Will talk about nearly anything brought up, might know a little, or a lot...I just don't know! Got started on the path to woodworking several years ago when my wife Irene and I were in a high-end, really expensive "Exotic Furniture" store in Greer, SC. After watching me put my face down on the tabletops to gawk at how the grain leaped out at me, she said those fateful words..." Why don't you quit screwing around talking about this stuff and build me some things?" All I could do was to stop...slowly turn my head in her direction...and say........"Don't toy with me!!! If that's what you really want...be prepared....it's not cheap!" She said that if it got me home from work more often, that it would be worth it. My only regret now is that there is too little money for too much wood! I have told the kids (son Russ, 43 and daughter Courtney,40) that the only thing I want for any holiday or birthday is interesting wood, and in return, for their birthdays, they'll get it back, albeit in a different and hopefully more pleasing form. I am slowly learning (I guess you could call it being self-taught) from magazines and books and having an absolute blast doing it! One day I hope to design something that will stop people in their tracks, but if I only get a thank you kiss from my wife...that'll be just fine!

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7/4/17, 12:10 PM #5

Joanne in Point Pleasant, PA
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They look nice. But the bottom bench seems very limited--only really short people can sit on it.

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My earliest experiences with wood and tools were as a child, learning how to use a hammer, saw, and paintbrush from my Dad and Grandfather. They were always busy finishing a basement, building a cabinet or bookcase or treehouse. But most of what I've learned has been as an adult. I read everything I can, pick the brains of everyone in woodworking stores, watch everything I can, and then try it out myself. I probably would not do or know half of what I do, if it weren't for Badger Pond and WoodCentral. I started out using powertools and upgrading those. However, I am enjoying getting into handtools more and more. There is a kind of quiet zen and peace in using them that I find restful. I am enjoying "flatwork" and make all kinds of things from small boxes, to picture frames, to shop cabinets, to large pieces of nice furniture. There is currently no lathe in my shop (although I love to lurk on the Turning board). Some day there may be one, but everyone warns me not to get one if I expect to continue making flatwork.

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7/4/17, 5:22 PM #6

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Joanne, they are made the same measurements......your vision needs adjusting.....lol

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7/4/17, 5:37 PM #7

Larry Clinton At Frankfort, (Central) Indiana
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They look very nice, however in my 140 yo home I doubt more than 3 legs would touch the floor until quite a lot of weight was on the seat... Same for my yard :>)

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I am 68 - be 69 in May 2010, have been retired about 4 years from Emerson Electric where I worked as a Engineer for about 40 years. Woodworking is my hobby, I refuse to do any woodworking for money as I am afraid it would become another job. I am very lucky to have a great woodworking shop. My son's and friends helped build it a couple years before I retired. It is a 30 X 30 shop with a 30 X 10 upstairs storage room, heated and air conditioned. I saved and purchased much of my equipment before I retired. I am busier now than when I worked, but seem to get little done :~>. I helped my son remodel his home, made all the woodwork from rough white oak, finished the vanity (from locust), lower kitchen cabinets (cherry) built cedar lined oak chest for my DIL, built a bathroom for my best friend and in process of building storage cabinets for SWMBO.

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7/4/17, 5:49 PM #8

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Does one make a long bench with flexibility such that it conforms to the floor?

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