Patron Version Video: Furniture Forensics with a Buck Board Bench
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Furniture Forensics returns!!
Today, we have a fascinating piece of furniture made from an authentic American farm wagon. The "buck board bench" is actually a popular regional style that's still being built today. (Don't feel bad if you had never heard of it; I hadn't either.)
This bench is filled with interesting details and surprises and of course, there's a little extra in here just for Patrons.
I know that many people want to see more of these videos and I want to make them, but finding real, hand-made pieces that I can bring into my shop for several days is very difficult. I know you want to see them, so I promise I'll keep looking.
Happy Saturday!
--Rex
Comments
I'll risk the repetition to say I love these deep dives, the analysis, the detective work, and the critique that will apply equally to the stuff I've done recently. I built an herb stand last year out of cedar (reclaimed from a massive old hedge my neighbour was ripping out) with the same style of leg, and the same shoulder issue... back on my to-do list it goes! I understand that good subjects for this style of video are not common, but I'll be sure to appreciate each one you do!
Oileanach
2024-07-27 19:56:16 +0000 UTCI'm a little late here but this has to be your best furniture forensics video! Loved the extra example pictures in the beginning showing benches made of wagon parts such as the suspensions, it must have been traumatic for some people to get rid of their wagons/carriages for those newfangled "horseless carriages" and making furniture out of their corpses was possibly a way to avoid waste.
LiraNuna
2024-07-27 16:06:48 +0000 UTCAwesome series I agree with all the other comments
The Super-wrench Garage
2024-07-27 13:14:33 +0000 UTCFair point. And a bit of magazine / book research suggests these benches were popular in the 1950s-1970s, which jibes with the glue.
Alex R
2024-07-24 05:16:02 +0000 UTCMy too! I always have to research something new.
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:57:28 +0000 UTCI feel the same way!
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:57:15 +0000 UTCI'm really glad.
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:57:08 +0000 UTCThank you!
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:57:03 +0000 UTCMaybe we will. We just did it for so long that it seemed played-out.
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:56:58 +0000 UTCI did give it back. The owner was glad I made a video about it.
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:56:31 +0000 UTCIt sure does!
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:56:09 +0000 UTCI can't find enough good pieces to get burned out on these!
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:56:01 +0000 UTCI'm really glad to hear that! Thank you!
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:55:40 +0000 UTCThank you!
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:55:29 +0000 UTCThe drill-press was my first power tool, too. My dad has an old Atlas in the basement. A good tool to teach a kid on. Hard to get into trouble.
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:55:22 +0000 UTCI like them a lot, too. I'm so glad you enjoy them!
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:54:28 +0000 UTCI would do one every month if I could. It's just a matter of finding the pieces.
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:54:10 +0000 UTCThank you! I'm not sure if restoring this is worth it. It's in good condition and being used. "Fixing" those joints would be a major change. Beyond mere restoration.
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:53:46 +0000 UTCI'm so glad. I want to make more!
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:52:01 +0000 UTCI hear you on that. I can never be totally sure. But the glue is dripping DOWN the leg. If somone were just trying to fill that joint with yellow glue, no reason to flip it over and let the glue drip out.
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:51:51 +0000 UTCSo many woodworking videos are just how-to. We also have to think about why we build and have an outlook that guides our work. Even if the motivation is just money, we should know what it is.
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:50:19 +0000 UTCI think that's exactly what happened here. I wanted to get into that, but it didn't fit the flow of the video.
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:49:23 +0000 UTCI'm just familiar with the grain pattern since I see it here so much. (And of course, I can't be 100% under all that stain, but I'm pretty sure.) It's so common around here.
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:48:54 +0000 UTCThank you!
Rex Krueger
2024-07-23 12:48:12 +0000 UTCI always injoy furniture forensics! Learn something new evey time.
Dan Delie
2024-07-22 20:36:10 +0000 UTCYay furniture forensics!
Alice
2024-07-22 19:59:11 +0000 UTCLove it.
Bruce McDonald
2024-07-22 19:18:01 +0000 UTClove these vids!
Jared Leff
2024-07-21 20:19:21 +0000 UTCPlease bring back the "Rex Figures It Out" interstitial!
judd
2024-07-21 17:22:38 +0000 UTCI guess my question is does Rex take the table back? lol I am a broken record and like the forensics videos even if the algorithm doesn't Thanks.
Stuart
2024-07-21 15:13:02 +0000 UTCFurniture Forensics returns!
Eric McCormick
2024-07-21 14:57:17 +0000 UTCI echo the others in my appreciation for these type of videos! I hope you never get burned out doing them!
Gerald Eddy
2024-07-21 08:28:26 +0000 UTCFurniture forensics is one of my favorite series! Thank you!
Toby Marble
2024-07-21 03:43:41 +0000 UTCThis is like a two for one this week!
Chris St. Cyr
2024-07-21 02:51:49 +0000 UTCMy Dad had a Craftman tablesaw in the garage, a drill press he bought out of a WW2 war factory and a massive workbench in the garage. I was a kid in the 50's. I couldn't use the tablesaw but he did let me use the drill press. It also was a craftsmen. He also had a belt sander that looked like a space ship. I used up all his scrap wood and nails so when he had a new project he alway had to go out and buy supplies. I know this because he always like to tell this story.🤪
Kit Schuetze
2024-07-20 20:34:43 +0000 UTCGreat Video Rex. I’m glad you’re able to make these videos regardless of what the algorithm says. They are my favorite.
Clint
2024-07-20 18:53:40 +0000 UTCThank you, Rex. Love these furniture forensics videos. Keep them coming when you can.
Matt Evans-Koch
2024-07-20 18:22:50 +0000 UTCI too enjoy the forensic videos. They are unique. I think this piece would be a good canidate for restoration. Then you would have the option of continued use as a table or use as a bench.
David Suitor
2024-07-20 18:09:50 +0000 UTCFurniture Forensics are my favorite videos!
Cindy Ballreich
2024-07-20 17:57:24 +0000 UTCLove this series -- and great job on this one. For what it's worth, I'm not completely convinced the conversion was done in or after the 1950s. I mean, you might be right, but I think it's also possible an earlier animal glue joint failed and someone did what people often do, which is grab the nearest bottle of wood glue and go to town on the problem area (with or without disassembling the joint). I did this once or twice before I learned better, and I've seen this on older pieces I've worked on.
Alex R
2024-07-20 17:07:13 +0000 UTCIn your videos, you seem to be talking more about the philosophy and motivation in woodworking. It is a different perspective and I enjoy hearing it. After I watch any of your forensics video, I look at my old furniture a bit more analytically.
Bob Templeton
2024-07-20 16:16:12 +0000 UTCIt would be interesting to see how much furniture was made from old wagons as their use declined with the advent of automobiles.
Stan Fioroni
2024-07-20 15:19:50 +0000 UTCCurious how you knew that the bench seat was made from sycamore...there are a surprising number of large sycamores growing here in Salt Lake, along with catalpas, long thick clear sections of trunk and I hope they can't sense me measuring them covetously by eye;)
John Griswold
2024-07-20 14:58:45 +0000 UTCGreat video. Love it
Evan Van Dyke
2024-07-20 13:56:49 +0000 UTCHey Patrons! We have to power to push the YouTube algorithm! 1. Watch on YouTube. 2. Like the video. 3. Comment on the video. 4. Share the video. So simple and it totally works!
Bradley Barth
2024-07-20 13:34:14 +0000 UTCCool to see what earlier generations did for home projects. Thanks for putting ynese together.
Dave West
2024-07-20 13:27:30 +0000 UTCYou sure have a knack for unraveling a piece of period furniture. You might have given up academia but you are still an academic. It’s a version of “You can take the boy off the farm but…”
Richard C von Brecht
2024-07-20 13:18:33 +0000 UTCMoin, maybe it was a first project for the builder (then it would be nice to see, what he learnt from it). You can find lots of furniture in shops today, that won't last that long... ;-) Yeah, you are right. We love this videos! :-D Ciao, Andreas
Gwynfor
2024-07-20 12:47:53 +0000 UTCThanks for the info
Karl Weuste
2024-07-20 12:41:13 +0000 UTCThanks Rex
Marc Barash
2024-07-20 12:24:42 +0000 UTC
