From TRASH to TREASURE! Restoring an Old Garden Bench!

someone recently dumped your trash in front of my shop let's make something out of it shall we let's first track the bench inside and then we search for some proper wood in my attic [Music] i remember from back when i crafted the grave ornament that i still had a big slab of ductless fur somewhere ah that's where you were hiding nice [Music] the slab is rather big and not great to handle on my sliding table saw this is why i decided to trim it to rough planks using my track saw after that was done i went over to my jointer and flattened one side to prepare the boards for re-sawing [Music] then it was off to doing some benzo work and listening to the sweet sweet sounds of a struggling screeching bandsaw cutting through resin infested soft wood beautiful [Music] that was terrible that that was not nice my my pencil didn't like that i i think it's just a duckless fur in and of itself it doesn't like to restore ductless fur or sword in general i always have such a hard time sewing it on the bandsaw i don't know why that is let me know down there in the comments if you got any idea now i got the first part done let's um trim it to size rip it and then let's screw it up and also i need to reattach this part goddamn branches always so annoying after that i repeated the same process for the rest of the stock last but not least we plane all blanks down to the same thickness and now that the lumber is roughly prepared for further processing i began to work on the backrest which is going to be just two of the wider boards glued together for the glue up we need one straight cyper board and my sliding table saw make quick work of that no jointer needed whatsoever [Music] [Music] [Music] the glue up was really simple i just had to make sure that the faces were aligned properly i also fixed some of the cracks with wood glue and some fine sanding dust from my shop bag then it was time to disassemble the original bench which was kind of a struggle to be honest i will keep the hardware for later no need to throw it away or replace it if it's still fine [Music] then we rough send all boards with an 80 grit i also noticed some more cracks and slight imperfections which i filled up with transparency 8 glue and accelerator next i prepared the boards for the area where the butt will rest in the future the process was completely similar to the backrest processing so you can just sit back and watch for a few seconds so once done i proceeded to mostly finish off the backrest by first dimensioning it [Music] [Music] chamfering all edges on my router table wow guys i gotta tell you this piece of ductless fur is the worst piece of i have ever worked with never had such a stupid garbage piece of wood in my shop it's terrible it's breaking off everywhere um it has cracks everywhere it has branches everywhere which are trying to break out had to fix so much stuff with c8 glue but for some other reason i can still manage to make something out of it um it's it it's actually turning out rather nicely in normal case you don't want to have those branches in here they are hard as freak your machines don't like them it's way harder than the rest of the other wood meaning the wood movement outside plays a big role but for some reason i was able to re-saw them and lay them out such that it looks like they are there are feathers in here look at that they they just look like birds feathers and i think that's quite a beautiful touch and i've never seen something like this before it's rather unique um here's the branch and this is the part where i have re-sawn it so here you see the saw line and it looks like a feather it's blending in there really nicely same thing here and on the other piece that i have for the bottom it's aligned even more perfectly i didn't see this alignment previously but look at that it's like a feather that is really cool i think that's a cool detail and it's going to make this piece into something signature i would say yeah that's really cool even though the the wood is absolute top garbage and like this is the reason why i never work with soft boards in a normal case apart from construction but but other than that never never soft woods it just sucked dick yeah let us continue and let's finish this one off let's send it a bit further and everything and then we can screw the holes in here um drill the holes in terry sorry and then we can try to test screw it to the bench and once it was all sanded all the way up to 320 grit including a small but very effective water pop i then covered the whole board in its first layer of weather and uv proof boat lacquer while there was drying i shifted my attention to the seat area [Music] [Music] the small neck rest at the front will sit on the metal frame at an angle which i measured using my little digital helper and after some simple trigonometry i calculated the angle for the cut being at 100 degrees which i then cut on my table saw i can see that my mathematics studies are good for something that is nice right [Music] mmm perfect fit nice before the glue up i had to chamfer everything already since that wouldn't have been an easy feat once everything was fixed together at an angle the glue up sucked honestly speaking and i was too lazy to prepare some sacrificial pieces that would make clamping easier for me so instead of using clamps i resorted to my trusty c8 glue to hold everything in place while my wood glue was curing next they rolled around and i got to sanding the seat the angle section was harder to reach so i used my arbor tack and its sanding attachment to get rid of the remaining c8 loom i still had a piece of ductless fur left and i thought i might add it to the downside for more strength ductless fur is rather soft and i wanted to prevent the bench from bowing over time i played with the thought of attaching it using long splines as joinery to add even more strength but i guess just gluing it to the back will be sufficient and strong enough to withstand the test of time and basically any wood movement that you get on the outside next they rolled around and all that was really left was to prepare the seed for finishing it at first i chamfered the support piece with my hand plane and then once again i sanded the whole work up to 320 grit my client also wanted an encraving on the piece so i quickly got it done using my x2d1 that i recently received from x2 before applying a second coat of finish to the backrest i sanded down the wood fibers that stood up after absorbing the first coat with a 320 grit to get a smooth surface after applying the second one the holes in the rest are still missing so i marked their respective positions down and then went over to my drill press to make some very funny drill press action there was a hard one was not easy to deal with this long and very heavy piece on the drill press all by myself then i quickly tested if all fit well and accurately and once confirmed i countersunk the hose for better looks let's enter the finish line literally first we lack her then we send down the first code and last but not least apply the second coat and just like that the bench was already done and ready to be put together [Music] well that didn't even turn out that bad right even though the wood was absolute trash if you liked the video make sure to subscribe and up until the next video with you guys flamboyant see ya [Music] you