Australian Wood Review

A Garden Bench Seat

Many woodworkers have a story about the random phone call leading to a pile of free wood. Usually it’s from people who had to have a tree cut down from a home garden. They are emotionally attached to the wood, and while they are happy to see the wood used creatively, they always want a little something made from the wood as a memento.

This project started that way. The wood was neatly racked out in a garden shed and was silky oak of the Grevillea robusta kind.

Loaded in my ute then

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