Derek Arita
05-21-2013, 10:35 AM
My daughter wants a bench for the entry of her new, first condo and has asked if I can make one for her. I want something simple and relatively easy to build. Maybe something shaker or mission style and with a back? I know she likes that old, used look. I'm going to have to use pine or a really cheap hardwood to hold the cost down. I wish I were more connected up here in NorCal, so I could get hooked up with some old, reclaimed barn wood.
I looked on the NYWorkshop site and saw Norm's English Garden Bench, which is cool, but as I recall, it has lots of angles and angled mortise and tenons and I think that will take me a while to do, so I'd like to get a little simpler than that, if possible. Anyhow, any suggestions would be helpful.
I looked on the NYWorkshop site and saw Norm's English Garden Bench, which is cool, but as I recall, it has lots of angles and angled mortise and tenons and I think that will take me a while to do, so I'd like to get a little simpler than that, if possible. Anyhow, any suggestions would be helpful.