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Oh, boy! What a project! You have probably seen the previous two posts about this very interesting project. We are rehabilitating a patio bench glider. The seat slats are wood, and the frame is metal. We have refinished the metal frame. The metal itself was in pretty good condition, although …
Well! So far, so good. No doubt you read the recent post about the start of the glider bench project. The bench needed some woodworking, which has now been completed. You can see the finished slats waiting for the final cure in the photo on the right. The consensus is …
Well, sometimes around the World Headquarters it seems like we are running a version of American Restoration (the original “good” version). Our latest project is a patio bench glider, the “as found” image is on the right. The glider has wood slats on the seat and a metal tube frame. …
I realized that I needed some sort of carpenter’s bench and was stuck as to what to do about it. A common type of workbench from the “old days” was the shaving bench. It was similar in design to a cobbler’s bench, but had a lever-action “head” that functioned as …
