Make a Shaker Bench from 3 Stair Treads!
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Joshua shows how to make this lovely dovetail braced Shaker bench using three inexpensive stair treads! Links to plans & products mentioned & used in the video:
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Very nice bench. It’s such a coincidence just today I stickered up some reclaimed 63 year old white pine boards to start this very same bench tomorrow! I planned to use Milk Paint, so YES please teach me how to make Milk Paint. I love your videos. They are so calm, relaxed, and you are so good at explaining your work with a great voice. You should do audio books.
Nicest comment ever! Send a photo of your bench when finished!
Very beautiful project
Thank you very much 😊
Pine stair treads. WOW!.
Cheaper than Radiata Pine AND slightly over 1" thick, too. All at a price of less than $2.50 a board foot at Lowes.
It gets better, too.The treads are less likely to be bowed or warped than the stuff one has to search through in the regular pine board racks.
Sweet. Great tip! Thanks.
Glad you liked it Jerry!
Man you are the most detailed carpenter I’ve ever seen that works with pine.
Ha, ha, you've gotta get out more. This isn't nearly as detailed as others... especially antique furniture.
@@WoodAndShop yes sure
You mentioned many tiny, yet important, details. The one that really sparked my interest was about cutting cross grain on a tenon to make sure one does not split the wood all the way down! Of all my video education, nobody else had ever mentioned that great tid-bit.
Thank you.
Yes to the milk paint video. Love the bench.
Great project!! Enjoying the channel!
Thanks so much!
Our next project..💪🏻👍🏻🎩
Thanks for making this style of video for beginners
You're most welcome Justin!
That was fantastic! Love the end "now get up from your computer or phone and go build something "...
Ha, ha, glad you liked that James!
Very nice.
Thanks!
Well Done I really like the leg accents on the bottom
Thanks!
Thanks Joshua, I think I'll give this one a try.
I was wondering about the finish. Yes please do it. Thanks for sharing!
You're most welcome 😊
Good job! Despite the simplicity of the bench and the manufacturing process, I watched this video with pleasure ... :)
Thank you very much and take care of yourself.
Thanks!
Nice , love your channel keep the good work comming 😊👍 .
Thanks 😊
Great video - thanks for the clear details
I’d love the milk paint video!
Great!
Great project build and nicely narrated too.
Thanks so much!
Nice bench...simple and clean...
Thanks Chuck!
Yes, definitely a milk paint from scratch video! Nice bench build BTW.
You got it!
Love to see the milk paint video
Will do Michael!
👍 on milk paint from scratch. I love milk paint as a finish, have used it for decades but have always had to buy it in the little paper bags. Can’t wait! Just subbed and hit the notification bell based on this video. Great content!
Thanks Lane!
Great video and bench. Loved the instruction. Very well done.
Glad you liked it!
Great video as always.
Thanks so much Franco!
A few years ago Popular Woodworking published an article by Christian Becksvoort making the stool version of this bench. It was easily scaled up into a bench almost exactly like this using pine boards from Home Depot. I do like your modified keyhole on the legs more than the somewhat Gothic arch Christian used. It adds just a bit more visual interest to the piece. Thanks for sharing and well done.
Interesting Kevin. I'll have to see if I can find the issue. Any idea which issue?
Hi Joshua
I must stand corrected on a couple of details. Christian Becksvoort is a contributor to Fine Woodworking not Popular Woodworking. Secondly, he used a simple arch on his legs not a Gothic arch. I realized after I posted that the odds of the Shakers using a Gothic motif were rather slim.
Anyway, the original article appeared in Fine Woodworking # 231 from Jan Feb 2013. It was also reprinted in the spring 2018 Best Of Fine Woodworking Shaker Furniture edition starting on page 40.
Thanks and best regards.
Kevin
Great video, Really like the detailed explanation. Yes interested in milk paint from scratch.
Thanks James!
Great project! A milk Paint video would be a good one.
Thanks Rick! I'm making the milk paint video now.
Definitely want the milk paint video
We have a old Amish milk painted bench much like yours on our porch
Cool David!
Beautiful build. I made a smaller version of this bench from a pallet. I use it frequently as it has great utility around the house. I finished mine with Tried and True linseed oil beeswax. Next time I am going to give your beeswax brew a try. Final note, learning to make the dovetail braces is an excellent skill builder as they have multiple uses in woodworking. Please make the milk paint video. I would really enjoy learning your process. Thank you ... David
Cool that you built one!
My Dad made us a bench like this when I was a kid .
But I didn’t know you do use a power tools 😊
Yup, I use a mix of hand and power tools to build traditional furniture
Wood and Shop , I just wish to visit your shop sometime. I don’t think I’ll like to leave after lol
Good job only thing you maybe should have mentioned is the reason you bevel the feet. Thanks enjoyed!
Milk paint from scratch? Count me in!
It's coming soon Jerry!
Beautiful! In my opinion, traditional pieces should be made mostly with hand tools, for a low production volume. Yeah, a mitre saw can speed things up but where is the pleasure in that?
Hi, Joshua. Your jobs are always simple, attractive and beautiful. As for wedged joints, I think they are one of the strongest joints when using mortice and tenons. I see you build in tenons one straight wedge which is parallel to top bench grain; if you had to build two wedges crosscut to top bench, just near the edge of the tenons, is it also right ? What about? More, how much wide ( by using the chisel, in such a case ) is the slot slope in order to insert the wedge and tighten against the edge ? I'd like to see this particular and strong joint, step by step. I know it is not easy to build, but I hear and see different ways of building. Thank you and all my best.
Glad you like it! Sorry, but could you please rephrase your question? I couldn't quite understand.
Nice content with make this two ways.
Milk paint, yes please.
Glad you like the method James!
Excellent! Milk paint would be great.
Coming your way!
Have you had anyone approach this as an alternative method for a sawbench?
I went to Home Depot here in Idaho and found stair treads, but they are made of laminated boards with a thin pine veneer over them. I didn't think those would work well so I'm still looking for some proper stair treads...
Milk paint.... nice!!!!
Will do!
Great build! I too am in the general C'Ville area and was looking to use stair tread to build a quick boarded chest but for the life of me I can't find anything but laminated pine treads at the blue and orange stores, where did you manage to find actual solid treads?
Hello! Where do you live? Try Builder's FirstSource south of C'ville for the long boards. Lowe's has the short ones. Cool UA-cam channel!
@@WoodAndShop Thank you! I will check them out. I'm near Crozet. I'm very much a novice hand tool woodworker, and if you peaked at my channel you may have guessed my primary interest is in medieval reproduction furniture. As a novice, I was looking for something economical, but edge-glued boards are a non-starter for the time period. A boarded chest in the early 15th century's dimensions are basically dictated by the width of the available lumber, so a stair-tread is a good option for me to practice with and a little stouter than the standard 3/4'' pine boards you can get everywhere. Your channel has been a great help!
Great project and video! Love the theme music “Hard Times” by Stephen Foster...who played the guitar?? You??
“Hard times, hard times, come again no more...” such a somber, moving song. It’s worth the time to look up the lyrics and the history of the song if you don’t know them already.
Yes, very moving song, played by my friend Jonathan Lubeck.
Very cool bench and construction techniques. Still a newbie, so I learned a lot!
On a somewhat different note - I purchased a couple of 3/4" holdfasts from Woodcraft and am having difficulty getting them to hold anything tight, even after giving them a couple of good whacks with a deadblow. Any ideas of what I might be doing wrong or what I should look for??? Thanks in advance...
How thick is your bench top? That will affect the ability of the holdfast to "hold".
@@rickmatheson2743 it's 1-1/4" southern yellow pine
Normally bench dogs won’t work with a thickness of less than 2-2 1/2 “. You need figure out how to add more thickness to your bench to make them work. May add something under it.
Yeah, you could screw another small board below the holdfast hole. Also, try a different brand of holdfasts.
Looks awesome Rey informative, please don’t call a mitre saw a “chop saw”
A true miter saw is moved back & forth on a miter box. So I call the modern saw a "chop saw" to distinguish. I'll keep calling it a chop saw, as will everyone I know.
What type of wood is that please? It looks nice.
I mentioned it multiple times in the video, but it's sothern yellow pine.
@@WoodAndShop Oh sorry, I was half listening whilst getting ready to go out. Thanks again.
Where do you keep your power tools and equipment?
Back of shop. Check out my video on making my shop.
Milk paint...yea!
Coming at ya!
Was expecting hand tools instead of Norm Abram. Nice design though.
You got hand tools and power tools. Norm would have found complex ways to avoid using hand tools 😂
Love the bench but please set an example and sharpen that wide chisel. It should not tear and smash the grain that badly... Sorry for being that guy but it hurt to watch.
That chisel was razor sharp at the start, but can full quickly when chopping. Not enough time to stop & strip during the scene. But yellow pine end grain does that even with a pretty sharp edge.
@@WoodAndShop
Try the rob crossmen pine chisel andel, 17° if memery is still works. I have not used yet. He gets a nice chop on end grain
SYP just chisel’s out that way. The 17’ bevel is a good idea.