wedding benches AND TABLES!

hackberry jake · August 19, 2013, 09:36:32 PM

Built some benches for my wedding over the weekend. Me and my brother and my dad had a little assembly line. My dad was bringing lumber in the shop and putting benches in the truck. I was cutting the pieces and my brother was using the dewalt impact driver and assembling the benches. The legs are roughly 10" wide and 20" tall. the tops are 4' long mostly two piece some one piece tops. I don't know if you remember when I cut some logs for a local mill that had "suspected metal" but most of the lumber came from those logs. Mainly oak 5/4. I cut the braces out of whatever scrap the table saw made ripping the second board for the tops. There was very little waste that didnt get used. We made 23 benches in about 4 hrs. I am going to build 27 more when I get more time.

I kind of felt bad for using such clear lumber in such a rough way, but I never have been a real big fan of oak anyways. The wedding will be rustic themed and I think these will fit right in. ;D

POSTON WIDEHEAD · August 19, 2013, 09:45:34 PM

Looks like the benches on the Duck Dynasty wedding last Wed. night.

WDH · August 19, 2013, 10:27:57 PM

You must be going to have a big wedding to need such a whack of benches. Building your one wedding benches is ~~like tying your own noose~~ being very thrifty ;D

thecfarm · August 20, 2013, 01:34:28 PM

50 benches? Where will you store them after the wedding? Outdoor wedding? Going to take pictures of the rustic setting? I would like to see how they fit in.

hackberry jake · August 20, 2013, 01:40:34 PM

They will likley go on craigslist after the wedding. There will be plenty of pics of the setting im sure after sept 21st

mesquite buckeye · August 20, 2013, 05:42:04 PM

Get 'er done! ;D 8) 8) 8)

sandhills · August 28, 2013, 10:12:57 AM

Love the benches and the idea, my wife and I got married in her parents garden, the guests had to sit on folding chairs :-\

Magicman · August 28, 2013, 06:33:51 PM

At least you had guest. When Pat and I got married, there was only the "marrying man" and a witness. :D

We drove to my parents home for an introduction the next day. ;D

sandhills · August 29, 2013, 12:08:21 AM

Magic I don't think it makes much difference, in no way could I get by without her, not sure how I did it beforehand other than the fact we were best friends then ;). Hackberry we're gonna have to have a lot of pics you realize

Farmerjw · August 30, 2013, 10:28:05 PM

Let the wedding guests know they will be sold after the wedding. Bet a lot of them will be gone that night. Looks great, wish I had thought of that for my daughter's wedding here on our farm a few years back.

thecfarm · August 31, 2013, 08:52:17 AM

Or better yet give them away to the guests. Might have to run a raffle if you get more takers than benches. That would be nice because they would always remember your wedding.

drobertson · September 01, 2013, 09:17:09 AM

Heck of an idea Jake, and the one about selling after is a great idea, be allot less to have to clean up, david

hackberry jake · September 05, 2013, 11:32:43 AM

I took this week off on vacation to get a few things done around the house. This is one of the things I've been working on

On a side note. I got some "deer cane" to make a few spots for hunting this year. I got a mineral block to put at the sites and since I am cheap and made two sites I decided to cut the block in half and put half at each site. I cut the block in half on one of the oak benches and this is what the minerals did to the oak. If you would like to turn oak black just get a "black magic" deer cane block and grind it onto the wood. I may try it on a nice piece one of these days.

POSTON WIDEHEAD · September 05, 2013, 03:18:34 PM

WOW! All those tables. Another wedding?

Tables look nice. Nice grain in the top of the table in the pic.

thecfarm · September 05, 2013, 05:45:02 PM

My stepson put up an antler trap and I put a normal,cheapy,salt block on a stump. The salt is gone,but the animals are really going after the stump.
Now you have tables to get rid of too.

Lud · September 05, 2013, 07:37:41 PM

How memorable......She'll be proud of you forever. 8)

WDH · September 05, 2013, 08:27:03 PM

Quartersawn Sycamore 8) 8).

You have good taste in middle boards for tables :D.

m wood · September 06, 2013, 07:57:59 AM

looking good! have you made the center pieces and card boxes, etc. :D Been there done that. How close r u getting?

hackberry jake · September 06, 2013, 11:56:43 AM

Sept 21st is the big day. Center pieces will be "cookies" and a mason jar with a candle in it. What are card holders?

m wood · September 07, 2013, 05:21:06 AM

oops, i mean card box. for the incoming cards. We used a wicker picnic basket and primped it up with small cookies and woodburned sayings. our centers were almost the same thing as yours, but our mason jars had a few inches of colored gravel and a dried flower arrangement. Cookies were about 8" to 12" spruce. maybe i can find pics somewhere. Congrats!

hackberry jake · September 16, 2013, 11:37:21 PM

The big day is Saturday! Here are some update Pics.

Ill bet there are very few people who can name off each species of wood in this table from left to right. Ill bet wdh gets close!

thecfarm · September 17, 2013, 08:45:46 AM

I hope the weather will be fine for the wedding.

downsouth · September 18, 2013, 12:27:44 PM

NICE!
I wish you and your soon to be wife luck in your new lives together .
My wife an I are going on 22yrs together . I could not imagine life without her.
Congradulations to you both!

Coach · September 18, 2013, 02:26:03 PM

Wishing you both a long and wonderfully blessed marriage.

beenthere · September 18, 2013, 03:13:23 PM

Wish you well.
Am wondering what keeps people sitting on the benches from toppling over backwards. Just the vision of a domino effect comes to mind in the middle of the ceremony. :

Hope not, but seems could happen.

thecfarm · September 18, 2013, 04:44:13 PM

Balance. ;D

Left Coast Chris · September 18, 2013, 07:39:46 PM

Great work Jake! Love the look of the wood. The bride to be is one lucky lady and will be for years to come. Best wishes and congrats to you both.

WDH · September 18, 2013, 08:06:10 PM

Jake,

If you take a few closer pics of the multi-species table, I will take a cut at it :D. I can see cherry, catalpa, sassafras, but I need a closer pic to get a good look at the others.

Farmerjw · September 19, 2013, 04:30:31 AM

Jake, congratulations, hope the weather is good and you and your bride enjoy many, many years together. Good job on the benches and table, enjoy the day, hopefully it is the only wedding day you will ever have.

Lud · September 19, 2013, 09:07:51 AM

2-3 days from now , we'll expect to see some pics!!! 8)

WDH · September 19, 2013, 05:05:41 PM

Gettin' hitched 8) 8) 8) 8).

VT_Forestry · September 20, 2013, 06:44:12 AM

Congrats on the wedding, everything looks great! Having just gone through the wedding process a few months ago (and having built a bunch of stuff for it too), I know exactly what you're going through right about now :D Good luck, have fun, it's going to feel like a blur when it's all said and done

hackberry jake · September 20, 2013, 10:54:05 AM

That funky looking picture is a moldy pine board. I didnt know mold could be so many different colors. After it went through the planer only a couple gray areas remained.

drobertson · September 20, 2013, 05:26:39 PM

Happy for you Jake! and have to say, you just signed your life away to a many of honey do's, ;D thinking you showed your cards just a lil too quick ;D take care now, and enjoy! david

thecfarm · September 20, 2013, 07:33:12 PM

Have a great day tomorrow.

WDH · September 20, 2013, 08:54:59 PM

The clock ticketh.

Larry · September 20, 2013, 09:07:09 PM

The rain today washed a months worth of dust down the river. Forecast for tomorrow is a perfect day.

Good luck to ya Jake. Hope all goes smoothy and none of the guests fall off a bench. :D

mesquite buckeye · September 20, 2013, 09:34:47 PM

Best wishes ;D

m wood · September 21, 2013, 05:56:16 AM

The big day is here Jake! looks like you have everything ready to launch. It all looks great. congratulations young man, its a mighty fine thing to have and to hold, a fine partner, and for a life time...way to go!

bama20a · September 21, 2013, 09:37:31 AM

Yep,As M Wood said today is the day, hope your not reading this,You need to be off your butt & be getting ready. ;D
CONGATULATIONS to you both. Mark,,,,,

WDH · September 21, 2013, 08:12:08 PM

Is it soup, yet ???.

thecfarm · September 21, 2013, 08:21:30 PM

May have to wait until morning to hear about the soup. ;D

POSTON WIDEHEAD · September 21, 2013, 08:51:53 PM

Its possible you may not hear from him for a while. :

Larry · September 21, 2013, 09:45:33 PM

If he doesn't post for six months we may need to send the FF search party out. ;D

justallan1 · September 21, 2013, 11:45:16 PM

Nice work on the benches and tables, Jake.
Congrats to you and your wife and many years of happiness.

Allan

hackberry jake · September 23, 2013, 04:27:57 PM

Well, everything went off without a hitch. The biggest complaint she had was she forgot to wear her viel. The weather was perfect and nobody had a bench domino effect. Thank you all for all of your wishs and kind words. Now the clean-up is almost done and the stress is gone. We haven't got all the pictures yet but here are a few sneak-peaks the photographer put on facebook.

WDH · September 23, 2013, 04:43:09 PM

What a beautiful bride! What a beautiful bride! What a beautiful bride!

(You don't look as good as curly cherry or curly walnut, but you don't look bad :D. ).

What a beautiful bride!

You are a lucky guy ;D.