The Woodshop Shed

Solid Wood Bench seats for Farm Table

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


I wanted to build two bench style seats to complement a Cobb and Co wired together table that I built in 2018.
The table can be seen in my projects by clicking hereThe bench seats are once again produced during Covid19 isolation on the farm and made out of the infamous bug ridden Bunya Pine Slabs.Getting the design and comfort of these seats was probably the hardest part, Due to heavy weight solid wood I wanted them to be as small as possible whilst still making them a good solid comfortable seat to sit on. I made a template outlining the slight angle back of the seat and getting seat back angle correct. I was careful to get sizing and spacing between seat back and seat top correct.The seats consist of 4 pieces of solid timber each. Once the members where cut out I simply shaped and sanded them with a disk grinder with rough grit sanding disks. Simple angle Iron brackets underneath to hold the seat tops down and coach screws (carriage bolt) through to the back of the seat backs, (this was tricky due to different sizes of the live edge on the vertical seat structural member.)Last but not least The Horse Shoe handles that I cleaned up, shaped, drilled, and painted help to get the seat in and out of position and good for two people one either end when shifting the seats about. The Horse shoes where given to me by friends who own a Brahman Cattle Stud, Their place is called Rockley and is in Warialda NSW here in Australia. (thanks Tim for the Old horse shoes.)Sorry lots of Photos of me in this one, Lovie was right by my side for most of the build and took some candid shots of the construction.Thanks for reading.
Regards
Anthony (Dyraaba NSW)

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