The Woodshop Shed

Chunky Cherry Bench

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


This is a bench I just finished. It sits in my entryway, waiting to be sat on and shoes to be put on. It marks my pretty much complete transition to hand tool woodworking after 30 years of saw dust and noise. ALthough I worked throughout Covid, I bought a hand plane on a whim. A Woodriver 5 1/2 and a low angle block plane. Because my father was not a woodworker (he was a mechanic (was very good with his hands) and did tons of carpentry, I grew up building cars and working a farm. But not ever having had a shop class, nor having a dad who actually constructed, I never got the education. I started making furniture for my family around 1996, when to my good fortune, my wife and I rented a house in Ellet Ohio, with a Shopsmith in the basement and a permissive landlord. I ended up making several pieces that lasted several moves and many years. Buying the hand plane really sent me down a different path and set me up for my later years. The biggest decision I have made as a woodworker was to sell my beloved but fickle Hitachi C10Fl. SOrry for the long story, probably would be better suited in a blog, I'm just….you know….proud of this little bench.

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