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An Impressive Build: Watch This Designer Create This Curved Bench from Scratch

If you were shown a sketch of a design like this, to be made from solid wood, how would you make it?

Consider that the radii of the slats are concentric, so that they cannot be separately laminated from a single mold. Well, the Croatia-based designer/builder (the chap behind the Lignum YouTube channel) has clearly thought this through carefully. Watch his efficient build process, which includes a glue-up process that makes you go “Ah, of course you’d do it that way:”