Woven Paracord Bench
When I started woodworking, it was driven by necessity; I needed something that didn’t exist, so I made it. My woodworking was also driven by a desire to spend my time doing something productive and learn some new skills. It was also helpful if the project could be completed with readily available materials in a couple of days, because my first “shop” was just a bin full of modest tools I kept stashed in my room in a college house. That’s where this design started.
I bought the materials at the home center: two 8' red oak 2x2s and 300' of ⅛" paracord. I dug through the handful of oak 2x2s in the bin to
