One of my first skills was as a woodworker and I love to return to this medium. All the benches are currently for sale if interested.
Made from an old black walnut tree from my aunt’s father’s orchard. (Yes, that was confusing!) My mother had a stump that was over 5′ tall and quite large around. She had it for 25 years before she gave it to me and I had it milled. The simple supports are aniline died hard maple.
The top of this bench comes from the same walnut as the above bench. The legs are repurposed machinery – a brake drum, and an anvil, seated in reclaimed hickory flooring.
The “Tetris” bench below was inspired by the early video game of Tetris! I have million little pieces of cut wood remnants and this was a way to begin to use some of it in a creative way. This bench is made of a variety of woods with history. Poplar and oak from our old piano that died and was disassembled, eucalyptus from scavenging in my college days, old hickory flooring pieced together, walnut, mahogany, zebra wood and Purple Heart left over from other projects, among others. The top is a thick piece of ash.
