This bench is made from heart-pine beams salvaged from the First Baptist Church in St. Petersburg, FL.  The 6' bench has a triple-sawbuck base with a single stretcher.  This bench was made for the Chawkins family in Sarasota, FL to go with a cypress dining table Shawn made for them last year.  How perfect that the table was made from cypress beams salvaged from a Methodist Church in Ft. Myers, FL.  That makes enough religious wood to deem this kitchen a holy place!
(click on the postcard photo below for more history on the wood in this project!)

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