Spring Bench

Building a bench around an 1800's wagon spring
 
My friend Leon Kytle in Idaho Falls gave me this old spring from a wagon seat from the 1800's and asked me to design a bench around it and give him the plans so he could build one too around the other spring. I drew it up in Arizona with the bend up and down and decided it looked better with it bent down. I made us templates of the spring curve and gave him a drawing of how I was going to make it. But when I got home he called and said he thought the spring should be spread wider for stability. I agreed and started a design as you go project.

I made all the parts of the bench out of Chestnut and all fasteners are Stainless. It now sits on our front  porch and replaced the old made made from treated pine!
 
I just found the early photos of the building of the bench and the original spring when it was 6" wide across the two springs with a forged offset piece connecting them.  I had to  make some pieces to spread the springs wider before installing them on the fame of the bench.
I can't post the images of the spring modification because they are in the wrong format.
Cheers, Jim