Wooden bench project. Monterey Cypress Bench. The bench top and legs are made from two slabs cut from the same Monterey Cypress log. The top measures approximately 17-inches deep by 60-inches long and has matching concave curved natural live edges. The bench, which is similar in design to concrete benches Mike has been making for years, has a redwood stretcher.
Monterey cypress is a cypress tree with a large spreading crown of horizontal branches and leaves that smell of lemon when crushed, native to a small area of California and widely planted in temperate climates worldwide. Also called macrocarpa . • Cupressus macrocarpa, family Cupressaceae.
