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Patron Version Video: Furniture Forensics with a Buck Board Bench (Patreon)

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2024-07-20 11:00:13
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Friends:

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

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Furniture Forensics with a Buck Board Bench

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Comments

Gwynfor

Moin, 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

Richard C von Brecht

You 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…”

Dave West

Cool to see what earlier generations did for home projects. Thanks for putting ynese together.

Bradley Barth

Hey 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!

John Griswold

Curious 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;)

Stan Fioroni

It would be interesting to see how much furniture was made from old wagons as their use declined with the advent of automobiles.

Bob Templeton

In 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.

Alex R

Love 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.

Cindy Ballreich

Furniture Forensics are my favorite videos!

David Suitor

I 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.

Matt Evans-Koch

Thank you, Rex. Love these furniture forensics videos. Keep them coming when you can.

Clint

Great Video Rex. I’m glad you’re able to make these videos regardless of what the algorithm says. They are my favorite.

Kit Schuetze

My 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.🤪

Chris St. Cyr

This is like a two for one this week!

Toby Marble

Furniture forensics is one of my favorite series! Thank you!

Gerald Eddy

I echo the others in my appreciation for these type of videos! I hope you never get burned out doing them!

Stuart

I 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.

judd

Please bring back the "Rex Figures It Out" interstitial!

Alice

Yay furniture forensics!

Dan Delie

I always injoy furniture forensics! Learn something new evey time.

Rex Krueger
>>144160582

I'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
>>144162156

I 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
>>144166436

So 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
>>144170194

I 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
>>144174954

Thank 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
>>144184878

The 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.

Alex R
>>144170194

Fair point. And a bit of magazine / book research suggests these benches were popular in the 1950s-1970s, which jibes with the glue.

LiraNuna

I'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.

Oileanach

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!