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Re Garden Bench Seat.   Hi, Your plans are excellent. I built one bench last year for my fire pit and am planning on building another soon. I also modified the for the bench back to 15 degrees. It's quite comfortable.
Since I'm an almost 50 year old female - I'd like to give the female prospective on building this bench. It was easy, and rewarding to build and quite a conversational piece - everyone is so impressed. My son's friend suggested I build a smore's table to match. I used the same basic principles as your bench plans and I now also have a great table.
Thanks you for sharing. "Sitting" pretty in Oceanport, NJ.

Re Large Traditional Picnic Table.   I've just finished making this picnic table and I'm very pleased with the result. I made it out of oak 2 1/4" finished planed thickness. So it should last for years and years. I live in Italy and am fortunate that I got all the wood virtually free from a manufacturer of oak wine barrels ( the really big ones!) all the oak that he rejects because they have a slight problem eg knots or small fissures I buy for the price of firewood i.e.approx $10 for 220 pound (100kg).
One problem that I did find fortunately very early in the construction was that your excellent plans and instructions had a fundamental error. The conversion of imperial versus metric measurement was wrong. In Italy I work in metres but on this design I had to work in inches which worked out perfectly OK.
Now looking forward to the next project and keep up this excellent web site I know that it gives lots of people like me a lot of pleasure.
Best regards
Victor Rupik Italy (the most beautiful country in the world! ;)

  Re small wishing well.   At this time I would like to thank you for the use of your (Small) Wishing Well plans and diagrams.
It has been a little over three years since I built it for my daughters wedding reception.
To fully utilize it we placed a large plastic bucket in the well, with a clear plexi-glass lid with a slot cut to allow for envelopes from guests to make a deposit but no withdrawal, heh heh heh.
It was a hit. My wife's niece decorated it with plastic vines and plastic flowers and I strung white lights over it.
Everyone wanted to know where it was purchased, boy were they surprised.
By the way, it is making the trip to her house this Easter weekend. It was to be a surprise but the wife got excited and let the cat out of the bag.
I added a piece of wood across within the well area around half-way down inside.
On this I have placed a stepping stone(round) made of cement that is approximately 16 inches across by 1 1/2 - 2 inches thick, this keeps it from being blown over when it gets windy around here.
This is the first winter that it didn't blow over.    Keith From LaVale,MD

Re Hexagonal (six sided) BBQ picnic table .   The hexagon picnic table is a great project... easily seats a large number of adults. Ours takes a lot of abuse.
Recommendations would be to double up the seat supports by sistering a second 2x and using 2x6's for the legs instead of 2x4. We priced #1 cedar and composite and found the cedar to be very affordable - total price with hardware was $250 US.    Snowcat

Re Workbench.   Hi to all
Yesterday I've started and finished constructing the workbench. It took me about 5 hours. and a lot of fun. The workbench is VERY STABLE. I like it a lot.
The Plans are Excellent! Very clear and simple even to a beginner.
The wood I bought is Pine Planned, overall cost (wood & bolts) about 500 NIS (Like 115 US$)
I needed only 20 3/8"X100mm Long Bolts (Instead of 34). for drilling I've used a Metal HSS 9.5 mm drill instead of a wood drill which made the drilling like cutting butter. 10x a lot for all    Eden Orion, Qoranit, Israel

Re Fences.   Thank you so much for your site. I'm rebuilding a section of fence that's fallen down, and your basic plans have helped me tremendously. I've built a fence before, but I had help and it was a long time ago.
So, THANK YOU!    Nancy Folsom Seattle, WA, U.S.

Re Kids BBQ Picnic Table Plans.   Wanted to add this pic to my comments about children's picnic table.
Thanks! Still love checking out your site    Click here to see photo.
Lorrie Marantz.

Re Coffee Table Plans.   This is a really great plan. I managed to recycle all the required wood from past projects-gone-bad and the salvage bin from my local lumber yard. Took a little extra work with an orbital sander but well worth the effort. Total cost came to about $20 over the course of about two weeks to complete, but this could be done in a few evenings or easily in a weekend provided you don't have to travel back to the store. Pay special attention when drilling holes for the bolts. A mistake here can make the table go wonky in spite of the painstakingly accurate measurements taken at the start. Take your time, measure carefully, don't be afraid to go back to the store to get the proper tools and you'll be pleased with the result when it's sitting in your living room. Vast improvement over the usual IKEA swag...
Sean, British Columbia, Canada

Re Doghouse Plans.   This was easy to build (made even easier with a mitre saw) and is so huge I even added another small compartment in the side for the cat. Wouldn't use it though. Wonder why?!
Paul Trappett

Re Swing seat project.   Thank you for the plans, the project went very smooth. I chose to go on the cheap and I used what wood I had around, namely, spruce 2x10's and 1 x 4's. The kids painted it with Tremclad White. Looks great.
Gord B. Princeton BC Canada

Re Swing seat project.   Hi, I just finished the swing plan and are using it. I had already had a swing which I designed some twenty years ago and this one is very interesting in it's look and design. Much nicer that mine was. My wife, who the swing was for has commented that she preferred my version of the swing for the following reasons. I had sides with higher supports which allowed her to turn on the swing with her back to the side. The other thing was that the chain connecting the swing back is in the way and interferes with the arm rest. So now she wants me to modify the design to remedy these items. The armrest could be 4 to 6 inches higher to make it more comfortable when sitting. The chain in the back is not a problem, I will simply attach it to the back support.
Other than these two minor items, I think it is a great design and easy to build.
thanks again    Spanishtrain

Re Folding picnic table project.   I just built the folding picnic table project and your plans were some of the best I've worked with. I used the USCS units for my build with 2x6 and 2x4 pressure treated lumber. Everything has been completed aside from a bit of light sanding and staining.
I had a couple of minor comments on the plans, however.
1. In the individual pieces diagram, the labels for parts e and f are reversed.
2. For item "k", you dont mention that the non-curved end should be cut at a 10-degree angle.
3. This is rather minor but the decorative filler pieces for one of the units is not quite wide enough with the 2x6 lumber. Even so, it was close enough that I used it anyway.
The only narrow strap hinges that I could find were 6" long rather than the 8" called for so I used them and they seem to be doing the job well. I can send some photos after it is stained up.
Chad

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