Building a Curved Bench in my Backyard

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8 ай бұрын

I've spent the last few months building this Curved Bench around a firepit in my backyard.
I've had so much fun with this project and am stoked to share the full project now as I show you every step I took to make this rounded bench!

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@alex98b627 4 ай бұрын

Nice to see you put the backrest on an angle. Can’t believe that even professional joiners still make benches with vertical backrests.

@LaughingInTiny 4 ай бұрын

This is FANTASTIC! My brother is about to landscape his backyard and this is exactly what's needed. Brilliant video, I'm positive you've saved many people a lot of trials and errors. 👍👍 For the pit, laying a few of your blocks on the bottom layer with a couple of inches between them gives you the oxygen needed. Also if anyone is wanting to build a similar fire pit but can't find the metal insert, old satellite dishes work well. The large ones also make a good pond 😊

@DaveDoesCarpentry 3 ай бұрын

Thankyou! I’d love to hear how your brother goes when he’s done! Thanks for the tip with the fire pit!

@anippere 5 ай бұрын

Outstanding! Its clear to see you enjoy your trade and the master class results. Very impressive!

@Imightbewrongbutsomightyou 5 ай бұрын

The garden looks great. Thanks for sharing, and I hope you have enough time out from work to enjoy it👍

@jeffforbes3772 4 ай бұрын

Great job! Excellent adjustments to pretty severe radius with angled slats to keep everything looking even.

@LilyBecca 5 күн бұрын

This is gorgeous!!

@steventoshack618 Ай бұрын

Great job Dave, it looks very nice.

@shelbyconstructions7256 4 ай бұрын

Top idea with the pole champ 👌... You are 100% spoton with the mitres aswell👍👍👍should be the same with exposed porch/pergola beams.

@Kbaifelicia 3 ай бұрын

Insane! You are such a creative. This had to have taken a lot of patience. Bravo!

@majl1000 4 ай бұрын

Awesome 👍 love that timber

@irietropicals4255 7 ай бұрын

The future is bright for you mate! Cheers !

@willgumley9639 6 ай бұрын

You're the only other bloke I've ever seen using one of those orange handled fishing knives on the job. Glad to know I'm not alone haha Great work mate. What a process

@omarhammoud7223 2 ай бұрын

Insanely Great !

@marnzxo4821 8 ай бұрын

Amazing work 👏👏👏👏

@ashtondrake3407 8 ай бұрын

Nice work mate! Sometimes projects don't look to great until they have paint/stain on them, and it can really make it a big gamble when making decisions like the back rest height and those sorts of decisions, but the decisions you made and colors you chose payed off. Good on you!

@DaveDoesCarpentry 8 ай бұрын

Thankyou! Appreciate it!

@wadesansom 8 ай бұрын

Hey Dave, a 1/2" corded router would have made your life easier for this project. A flush trim bit for the decking board curve. A roundover bit for rounding those sharp edges. The bench looks great.

@DaveDoesCarpentry 8 ай бұрын

I should have used a round over but definitely, I was worried about using a flush trim bit for the curve, as it may have kicked in at the ends of every board

@TiffCat 3 ай бұрын

@@DaveDoesCarpentry not if you setup a curved guide to route against

@azzman1769 8 ай бұрын

What a massive slog! Nice work mate you smashed it 💪💪

@DaveDoesCarpentry 8 ай бұрын

Thankyou!

@kelvynnash4333 4 ай бұрын

Well done Dave. An excellent product. We call your "Nogs" noggins in the UK. Once again well done with your amazing bench.

@Daltic639 4 ай бұрын

Love your videos man, I always wanted to be a chippy when I was younger

@azdeh1894 4 ай бұрын

Consider a smokeless pit design, would be more enjoyable for all that work. Looks great!

@BlackPete... 3 ай бұрын

Definitely.

@BlackPete... 3 ай бұрын

Stunning bit of work. If it was me, I'd be getting rid of the crushed rock as soon as possible because it must be awful underfoot. I'd replace it with exposed aggregate. Apart from that choice of materials, it's a hugely inspiring build.

@lukewagstaff1261 5 ай бұрын

very nice indeed, your videos are grouse mate keep it up your gonna blow up soon xx

@thomasmikael 8 ай бұрын

bloody awesome bro

@DaveDoesCarpentry 8 ай бұрын

Cheers bro!

@conniegarcia5626 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful....😊

@michaelplays2449 8 ай бұрын

Nice Job !!!!!

@DaveDoesCarpentry 8 ай бұрын

Thankyou!

@Seqhael 3 ай бұрын

Bro you did a good job, love it. The stained decking always looks way better than people who leave it to silver off imo. Looking at your project, if it were me and my own property and I had the time I’d probably mitre every board and biscuit join it just cos I have the time. A random thought came to me too, only if it were my place and I had the time to fuck around, I’d jerry rig a heat exchange coil into the fire and pump glycol through it to some heat blowers around the seats so you’re getting warm off the waste heat of the fire too, that would be sick

@KiwiKoNZ 3 ай бұрын

Bro you definitely need to replace the fireplace with a smokeless fire pit 👋😏👉🔥🔥

@furnituredoneright6375 3 ай бұрын

Looks great going to do something like this for my place 👍🏽 only difference I’ll be doing is using my trimmer to put a round edge on any of my rip cuts

@Damian-kl3wb 4 ай бұрын

brilliant

@pdh1880 4 ай бұрын

God dam. Its really nice to see top quality carpentry for once. I wish every chippy i work with was like this.

@miguelcondessa1 4 ай бұрын

Nice!

@renodad 8 ай бұрын

Nice video Dave!

@DaveDoesCarpentry 8 ай бұрын

Thanks mate!

@lauraharvey7424 3 ай бұрын

Looks amazing ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ps you could always stain the out side of your fire pit blocks like a dark black with the bronze bowl stunning ❤

@bl6045 3 ай бұрын

Use a long flush trim router bit would have saved unscrewing all the boards.

@aaronsomeone5751 4 ай бұрын

nice job! FYI, dry pockets of concrete mix in the ground actually will eventually harden slowly as the ground moisture gets in! obviously not ideal though...

@BillBard 3 ай бұрын

Regarding cutting all the boards flush to the curve: I would definitively urge you to purchase a flush trim router bit. (and a router, depending) No need to undo anything at that point, just run the router down the line and chop them perfectly flush to the curve beneath.

@badsy2j689 4 ай бұрын

do you reckon it's possible to get into carpentry at 25 years old?

@fragglerock5696 4 ай бұрын

Yep of course bro.. go for it!

@artetaDagoat 4 ай бұрын

100%. I did. I know guys who heaps that did the same. Even dudes that did it at 30, 40 and 50. All qualified now. Key is to find a small quality good crew

@kevinheise7 8 ай бұрын

Beautiful work! I would have dug out a deeper base for the fire pit stones and used a screed to set the grade. Other than that, top-notch!👍🍻

@DaveDoesCarpentry 8 ай бұрын

Thankyou! That sounds like it would have been a better idea!

@TheMaintenenceGroup 4 ай бұрын

The rats are gonna love it mate good joinery btw

@johnnyfive-bc 4 ай бұрын

Great job! What wood did you use?

@craighall2819 4 ай бұрын

Hit a star picket into the ground and use a sfingline for your radius

@simondelaney2958 3 ай бұрын

8:20 I use a 2-3mm pencil round in my laminex trimmer

@fragglerock5696 4 ай бұрын

What did it cost just curious.. cheers

@philheath9391 3 ай бұрын

привет из России отличная работа Очень красиво

@skylerbissell8078 8 ай бұрын

Could you have cut off the extra seat board lenghes using a jigsaw or oscillating saw and then smoothed and sanded them even? Everything seemed amazing otherwise, just wondering if you think that would be a viable route!

@DaveDoesCarpentry 8 ай бұрын

Both of these methods have a high chance of ruining the face boards below them. The jigsaw blade will rub against the lower boards and possibly cut into them, and a multi tool will either rub against the lower boards, or end up cutting the top boards on an angle (to avoid rubbing against the face boards) I decided both of these methods weren’t worth risking the lower boards, and the mitresaw was the safest and more accurate method. Thankyou!

@axelnorvell8427 8 ай бұрын

A flush trim router bit would of done the job for you

@DamienHarding1980 3 ай бұрын

I'm worried the flush trim would chip the ends, unless you stick spaces inbetween

@michaeloxlarge4345 3 ай бұрын

they dont have H5 in straya?

@chefcurry7997 4 ай бұрын

Great design great idea. Great effort, work and time spent on the carpentry. Just disappointing how blasé you were with the little fire retaining wall, and pavers. They won’t stay in place long. They will move for sure

@coreythomas9178 4 ай бұрын

Why use a router instead of pulling every 2nd one off?

@battlebotts 3 ай бұрын

Brass screws would have been nice

@dawnofretribution 5 ай бұрын

A heads up mate Quickset concrete is not structural

@ConcreteLand 4 ай бұрын

You don’t need structural for fence posts. We use one bag of concrete (25kg) to about 4 bags of 1/2 inch minus. Mix with very little water (2-4 L depending on weather) and pack it in in layers. Also improves drainage.