garden furniture bench

[music] 00:05 speaker 1: g'day, knuckleheads! uncleknackers here. get this. i was driving down the road the other day and i came across afencing contractor, who was throwing this beautiful old hardwood fence panel into theback of his ute. i said, "hey mate, what are you doing with that?" and he goes, "ah, i'mjust gonna take it down to the tip or maybe burn it." i said, "what?" i said, "i'll tellyou what, how about i take it off your hands and save you the trip of going to the tip?"he said, "beautiful. job's done." so, i threw it in the back of the ute and took it home,because underneath this exterior, is some beautiful old hardwood, and i think with abit of tlc, i should be able to knock something

out pretty nice. 00:47 s1: just what, i'm not quite sure yet.how about one of those bench chair thingies? you know? yeah! a bench chair thingy. done!now, for this project, we're going to need 10 of these palings, and to remove the palingfrom the rail, you can just use a hammer and gently tap it off, but they are prone to splitting.a method that i like to use, if you've got one of course, is a reciprocating saw witha metal cutting blade. just insert the blade between the paling and the rail and let theblade do the work. i'll show you how to do it. [pause]

01:43 s1: okay, the first thing we need todo, is to remove these old nails, and we do that with the aid of a hammer and a punch. 02:10 s1: there you go. too easy. now, whatwe wanna do now, is just take a light little shaving of this board. just a touch. so, grabyour planer, whether it's a hand planer or an electric planer. you can almost guaranteethat when you do a video outside, you get a jet flying overhead, maybe a dog barkingor a flock of birds flying over or the guy next door decides that it's a really goodtime to start tuning his car, and then, the lawn mower man turns up and starts mowingthe lawn. it's amazing. 02:47 s1: so anyway, like i said, grab yourplaner, put on some protective equipment,

ear muffs and goggles, just give this a littlebit of a touch-up. i reckon that's just about right. you still got some of the old age whichyou can't replicate, some of the old greyness, and a bit of the new stuff coming through.so, just repeat that process with the rest of the boards, then, we'll start knockingout this chair or this bench thingy. let's go. so, i've planed the boards down and now,it's time to cut to length and maybe, get rid of some of this daggy stuff. and i'vecalculated, and the maximum length i can get out of each of these boards is about 1340millimetres. so, we need to cut three of those, and for the legs, i need to cut, let's see,eight at 500 millimetres. okay, let's do that. 04:06 s1: okay, i've cut the legs, eight intotal, and from end-to-end, they're 500 millimetres

long. or in imperial, if i get my little tapemeasure out, that's about 19 inches. and you'll also notice that i ran a taper down one side.now, from the top of the leg to the start of the taper is six inches which is about150 millimetres, running down to the end here, which is 45 to 50 millimetres, which is abouttwo inches. so, there you have it. legs are cut, tops are cut, and now, all we need todo is build a very simple frame and put the whole thing together. 04:45 s1: come on. so, here's the frame thati've just knocked up, all out of palings. leave the palings there. and these here, thesesupports are the rails from that fence panel, that we pulled apart. this here is going tobe the seat, the top, and this here, two of

those legs that we've cut, we've glued andnailed together to form one leg. and it goes on like this, by applying a generous amountof woodworkers' glue to the inside of the leg and then, line it up on the frame. bang,bang, bang, bang, and nail it off. do that for the other three legs, and job's done.and then, it's time to now top off, and we'll put a nice finish. 05:57 s1: so, there you go, the top's on,and i must say, it's looking pretty good. now, you also noticed that i've sparinglyput down some teal paint on the top here, most of that is gonna be sanded off in thefinal sand and all that will be left is hints of green or teal in these cracks or in theseknot holes and it needs a good sand, because

you don't wanna get any splinters in our bum.so, anyway, let's get sanding. 06:26 s1: so, i've done the final sand andit's come up absolutely beautiful and the only thing left to do, is to put a coat ofclear marine grade satin varnish across the whole lot, probably two or three coats. andthen, when that's all done, it should be all finished, happy days. yeah, three coats ofvarnish later and we transformed these old palings into this. ooh wee! check it out.now, i don't wish to brag, but i think it's turned out really well considering where itcame from only a short time ago. i think the end result is spot on. it's nice and rusticwhich is what i was after. it's got the old nail holes there and i think there's justenough hint of that teal coming through there

and then going over the top. it's nice andsolid and i think it's a project well within everybody's capabilities. so, the next timewhen you're driving around and you stumble across some old fence palings, take them homeand have a crack, your friends will be very very impressed. 07:46 s1: so, there you go, how to make oneof those bench seat thingies out of old fence palings. what a top project? great tip, knackers!and as per usual, if you found this video useful, subscribe to my channel, the button'sdown there; thumbs up, the button's down there as well. and i'm also on that facebook thingyat diy for knuckleheads, check that one out as well. now, don't go just yet, because there'llbe photos going backwards and forwards of

this little baby for all it's glory. so, 'tilnext time, i'm out of here, cheers.