For a while now I have been working on a special bench. A 25th wedding anniversary present to ourselves.
It all started with a chance purchase from one of our favourite junk shops in Hexham in November 2018. The owners were sitting outside the shop having a cup of tea. They were seated on a small Victorian cast end bench, which was for sale.
We had to buy it. 10 minutes later we were ‘feeding’ it into the car.
As we had assumed, all the woodwork was rotten, but the cast ends held much promise, and an opportunity for some wood carving.
Having borrowed some tools from the farm we stay at, the rotten wood was removed so that we could more easily load it into the car with all our other bits and pieces. My starting point was thus set, with an awful lot of work to do:
