Thanks for the comments
This bench is now over 5 years old ( this thread is 20 months old) & has held up well to some fairly heavy use, as I said in the opening post there are a few things I'd do differently now but overall I've been very please with it, not that it now resembles the pristine bench that those photos show, but then again it was built to be used.
This bench is now over 5 years old ( this thread is 20 months old) & has held up well to some fairly heavy use, as I said in the opening post there are a few things I'd do differently now but overall I've been very please with it, not that it now resembles the pristine bench that those photos show, but then again it was built to be used.