Prayer bench donated to a church

   During my long 37 year career as an industrial and commercial insulator...I had made many friends...however, only a special few I would say became really good buddies.  Not that we get together or anything, just that we formed a working bond while on the job...enjoyed each others one of a kind personality and our funky sense of humor.  One, I will only refer to him as Joe here in this  blog....was/is one of those special guys.  Away from the insulation trade..Joe did some nice tile work. 

   When I got around to renovating my kitchen after retirement, I knew that I would want Joe to do his magic to our kitchen project with a great backsplash.  He was thrilled that I wanted to enlist him for the job and honestly, I would have had it no other way. 

 Anyway, when it came time to talk about payment, Joe beat me to the punch and offered me a deal.  He had a friend that

 wanted to donate something to her church.  He mentioned something about a bench of some sort.  I had no idea at the time just what he was looking for, but we shook hands on the deal and I figured that it would be another opportunity to do some designing of a piece of furniture.  I have really enjoyed designing furniture over the years and continue to enjoy sketching out and fabricating furniture from scratch. 

  Well, he eventually got back to me with a picture of a prayer bench and it seemed pretty easy and straightforward to build.  I saw some design flaws in its construction so I made some minor changes in the area of adding strength.  The pictures alongside is what I ended up with.  Hope they like it!