Made me a timber bench!

[Tjurved]

Hello made me a simple timber bench. It's about 2.3 meters. Made of spalted pine. Cut a log in half with a chainsaw then plained it smooth by hand. The legs and holes are both conical so in theory the harder you sit the harder they connect. I kinda eyeballed the legs angle so there are some variation. The construction seems weak but we shall see how long it last. The tenons for the legs are about 7 cm deep. Treated with linseed oil.

 

[Dreadhead]

nice work

 

[crosslandkelly]

Good job.

 

[richardhomer]

Looks great

 

[Everything Mac]

Nice work.

Andy

 

[British Red]

Looks good to me.

 

[Goatboy]

Job looks a good 'un. Nice delineation between the spalted & unspalted wood.

Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

 

[Clouston98]

Looks cracking mate! Nice one

 

[grey-array]

Looks superb mate, on which line did the spalting end. just where it is crossing into the Heartwood?
superb stuff

Yours sincerely
Ruud

 

[Tjurved]

Looks superb mate, on which line did the spalting end. just where it is crossing into the Heartwood?
superb stuff

Yours sincerely
Ruud

Yes correct! The difference is huge!

 

[grey-array]

Amazing stuff, incredible how much of a difference the density and the little bit of extra resin can make against rot and spalting
Top stuff, hope it will serve you well through the years mate it's a keeper ^^

Yours sincerely
Ruud

 

[Robson Valley]

Nice figure in the wood. Looks like "bug-wood" to me. Called the "blue-stain" fungus, it's carried by pine bark beetles and infects every tree that they colonize.
Not a spalting which can occur de novo.
We have 18,000,000 hectares of standing dead and dried and cracked pine in British Columbia from a Mountian Pine
Beetle epidemic over the past 20 years as a little note added in proof from where I sit. Not worth the chainsaw gas to cut it down.

 

[santaman2000]

Great looking bench.

 

[janso]

Good job mate!


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[Tjurved]

Nice figure in the wood. Looks like "bug-wood" to me. Called the "blue-stain" fungus, it's carried by pine bark beetles and infects every tree that they colonize.
Not a spalting which can occur de novo.
We have 18,000,000 hectares of standing dead and dried and cracked pine in British Columbia from a Mountian Pine
Beetle epidemic over the past 20 years as a little note added in proof from where I sit. Not worth the chainsaw gas to cut it down.

Thanks for the info. These logs were infected after they were felled I think. They been laying on the ground for about 2 years.

 

[Monikieman]

Looks great. Should hold up well I think. Nice feeling when it's done with a beer in your hand sitting on something you made yourself.

 

[mousey]

well, at least it'll not blow away in a storm!

I made a single seat in the same form as that while in college and that was heavy enough for a seat.

 

[spader]

Great work

What tools did you use for making the holes on the timbre, may I ask? cheers.

 

[Robson Valley]

The bugs could have infected the tree before it was cut. Then the fungus carries on by itself.
Can you see the shallow tunnels when you removed the bark?

What did you use for a finish that shows off the blue stain so well?
Everything that I've ever tried on bug wood just looks grey and dirty.

 

[4freek]

Great bench!
Looks like a superb place to sit and whittle