Old fashioned tools, lovely and a lot of work.

I really appreciate the inclusion of Sarah, she gives a realistic view of how difficult some of the stuff is that you make look easy. Kind of like putting an average person in the olympics for comparison.

I am so going to appropriate my husband’s power washer to clean up some treadle sewing machine bases! From one nurse to another, you did a great job Sarah! Y’all keep safe!

I sanded 25 yrs of teak and mahogany, sand clean and varnish repeat many times on yachts. You guys did such a great job and together , very refreshing as lately people vlogs have been picking up distasteful comments. Good for you

What can be better than family teamwork! You guys did well! You have a beautiful family. I am truly glad for you!

I knew it!! Sarah actually does all the hard work behind the scenes. Great project y’all did together. Congrats.🎉

I had low expectations for this one, it’s just a bunch of slats after all, but it was actually very cute. Thanks.

I recently restored a cast iron park bench too. It was really interesting to see the way you approached the project and compare it with my approach.

my wife and I have this exact Edwardian cast iron bench frame. We replaced the slats with white oak slats. We used a oak stretcher on the bottom versus the angled iron seat support. Ours also had the curved iron center support. Yours tuned out great

Good woman and sweet Green Bay hat!

I just picked up a falling apart rotted bench so ready to refurbishe

Lovely to see you working together and that takes patience and respect. So respect! Lovely result too. 👍😊

James, what stood out for me was your wife's South Africa Rotary t-shirt. Greetings from Cape Town. Really nice bench and you guys make a lovely couple.

Excellent work on a worthwhile project.

You did a fantastic job on the garden benches, they are lovely

I loved seeing Hazel and Larry's reaction! ❣️❣️❣️

Amazing job with this, it looks so great!

Enjoyed the video James & Sara. That was really nice you two doing a project together, especially for Sara's Grandparents. Those benches turned out very well. Thanks for taking the time to produce the video. Y'all take care and God bless.

Lovely work guys, and a lovely ending, the epoxy resin on the wood was interesting, have to try that on some outside projects.

I am literally getting ready to do this today! Thank you for such an in depth tutorial. I pray that mine is even half as nice looking. Yours is incredibly beautiful.

Loved the old tools!! Great job 👏

A for effort and jumping right in there to get them done Mrs W. Oddly l just did the very same thing for my daughter too.

I recently did a similar job using cypress (which is what I had available). I plowed a groove down the length of each of the bottom slats and set a half slat onto it to form a tee, making sure that each piece bowed upwards along its length. The somewhat bendy slats are now stiff and strong, even with my huge posterior sitting on them.

Really fantastic work, guys! It turned out beautiful!!! 😃 Family work is always a great family time! 😊 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Good for you guys. A family project!

Amazing video and amazing team work!

Absolutely stunning!

Congratulations to the hard-working wife!!! Benches are beautifl. thank for video.

Bless the lady for her efforts. Good job, both of you 😊👍

Thank you for the video. I always wanted to have bench in my garden and I found a iron frame. Start looking for information on KZfaq and found your video it was very helpful. Now I have the idea how to do step by step. Thanks again.

Great work. I loved the collaboration!

That was a cool video. No crazy fancy joints or anything but just a simple bench restoration. Nice job on them both of you.

First! I am salvaging this exact bench. It looks awesome!

Charming video! 💖

Turned out great!

Came out great. Wonderful job. 👍

Awesome job guys!!!

I'll be doing this for a friend soon, so this is really helpful for me! Looks like a lovely project and you made the owners happy!

Nice job. They look great.

Very nice. Great teamwork.

Best video I’ve seen all year. Could sleep with all the hand tools going on.

Wow really good job 👌

Glad I just found you! I don't have a table saw & everyone else on KZfaq was showing how to restore this with tools the avg person wouldn't have. You showed me what was possible with what I've got! Thanks again.

She looks like she had a lot of fun doing this project!

I have just done one for my back garden, seeing the both of you on it I have desided that it should take my Weight

Awesome job!

God Bless you both...

Smart people here...note the Green Bay Packers hat...lol. I'm a huge Packers fan, have to be. My dad graduated high school with a 4 year full ride to Wisconsin State...now UW-Platteville. His Jr or Sr season they missed a bowl game by a coin toss and finished 5th nationally for small colleges. They were cleaning out their lockers when 2 well dressed men walked in, met the head coach and went into a conference room. A few minutes went by and the coach stepped out and called my dad and 2 other men to join them. The 3 players went back in and sat down to find out all 3 were offered tryouts at Green Bay for the Packers. Dad ultimately declined as he was 5'9" 180#'s and an 11 year veteran Fast-Pitch Softball Pitcher and Class A. Class A was World-Class at the time and went on to pitch 38 years. Anyhow, the 2 men that represented Green Bay were none other than Bart Starr and Vince Lombardi himself. If my dad warranted an offer from Vince to try out at Green Bay he seen something in dad. Thus the Green Bay Packers get my allegiance, think anyone would respect them the same as well.

Very nice. I've done 2 myself.

Wonderful job, the benches looked amazing. Loving watching your channel all the way here in Sunny Wales, uk 👍

I too have have two old reclaimed cast-iron bench ends. But not the wooden slats. Nor do I have the metal 'straps', or the nuts n bolts. Think I'll watch your video, though... might help me with my restoration. Thanks for sharing.

I just picked up that exact same frame for my wife for her birthday! We're going to redo it this upcoming spring

Loved this video

lovely work

I like this colab work with your wife. With both of you working on it, it makes a wonderful present for grandparents. I was going to ask if it was for yourselves as it's make a nice item in your own garden or yard, something you worked on together. I fully understand the struggle when she stands on a box for extra height I, myself, a really short woman standing at 4ft 9 in.

Awesome job!!

Good job!

Oh wifey, you are an awesome NURSE.. Our very first responders.

Amazing!!!

Mad respect for y'all ripping boards with a hand saw. Mad respect.

Nice work...by hand!

Just what I needed. Got one ready to go. Nice job by the way.

Nice job guys🤗

Nice job 😁👍

Greetings from South Africa. Interesting sweater the wife is wearing. Nice job, teamwork!💯

So beautiful.

Very cool that you used hand tools for cutting the slats, planing the edges, drilling the holes. Should last forever.

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Very nice

I enjoyed watching you both working togethr. Especially the little supervisor asking why painted brown. I would have liked to hear what paint, primer, wood, etc... Used. I can see old school tools used which was great

No power tools, admirable old school work!😀

They’re beautiful

Amazing video! I wish I knew how to get my wife to help me in my projects! Beautiful yard too btw.. But I don't like being so close to the expressway. Too much traffic noise.

Too funny! I live near Green Bay and I can honestly say, I never see anyone wearing a Bears hat!! You must be pretty popular in Illinois wearing that hat. Great job on the restoration. I did the exact same thing to a bench left by the previous home owners. I painted mine though.

look's good

Отлично 👍

Good job, a lots of efforts 👏 👍 9

Very nice! You didn’t show any arguing! Lol

Nice ❤️

That is nice. I wish I could get my wife interested in woodwork.

Excellent work James. Now, what is next?! Take care.

New subscriber , great video 💞

A trick with the phillips screwdriver is to use vice grips to turn the shank while you push inward. Some larger phillips screw drivers have a squared off shank near the handle so you can turn it with a wrench.

Looks great. Hope to see more projects with you working together. BTW - I noticed Sara using a power drill to attach the frames. I thought you only had hand tools in the shop !!!

I my husband has taken ours apart. Now…. :) I apparently need a power washer.

Great job. Love the use of all hand tools. Can you tell me what type of wood you used? Thank you

Great job! I'm wanting to do the same thing with a couple ends given to me. What was the length and width of the new boards? Where all the boards the same width?

I've got exactly this job somewhere on my 'honey do' list.... The list is a bit long though.

I think more people should show their partners how to use all the tools. My husbands tools all rusted after he died as I didn’t know how to use them and therefore could not teach my sons as they were only young when he died.

Very nice job. I have the exact bench I want to make nice. Cool to use no power tools but at 72 and female I don't think I can. Do you think having Lowes cut the wooden slats would work if I just replaced them? I know wood is much more expensive than 2 years ago.

I’m rehabbing what appears to be the exact identical garden bench. What is the brown/orange product you spray on the cast-iron before you spray the black? I assume some sort of rust retardant? I’ve got black rustoleum, but perhaps I need a primer of another rust inhibiting product.

I have that drill but I'm not strong or coordinated enough to use it.

Great JOB! Wondering how many hours you spent total to restore it! TY

The apprentice learns quick! When will we hear you singing while planing ??

Beautiful result. I'm going to copy every step. What is the burnt orange paint on the cast iron ends before black was applied?

Nice job. What kind of wood is that? I think the one I have to do is maple.

I’m a nurse too! What kind of nurse is Mrs W?

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would love to have my wife help me on jobs outside. i just get the honey do's lol. so much nicer to work together especially as even after all these years i just love being close.

It was great to see how many dwarf outfits Sarah has. When can we expect to see her own channel? The Gnome Queen WoodWorker ? Lol. I’m in trouble.