About 3 weeks ago, I said to my wife that I could do with having a new wood working project on the go.
That morning, after a few hours of hard graft in the garden, I decided to stop for a coffee. I made the coffee and took out to the garden bench and promptly fell through it as the thing fell apart!
On close inspection it was very rotten and beyond repair. (As an aside, it was an oak bench we bought about 12 years ago and I discovered this morning when I cut it up for firewood that there was a huge amount of sap wood in it. Some entire, and load bearing, components seemed to be made entirely from sap wood .)
Anyway, it must have been fate and the next day I paid a visit to the timber yard and bought some oak to make a replacement.
This is the result. I copied the design of the old bench (which seemed comfortable and attractive enough).