Leg day

First step in building a bench – legs. Laminating up 2x4s to make the bulk of them.

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I do love that #7 plane. It hisses through the wood like a dream (with an isolated nightmare when hitting a knot in the pine broke the blade, chipping it and requiring a new bevel to be ground).

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Clamps all faced up with offcuts of spare wood and ready for the glue-up.

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2016-06-08 21.36.12aGlue-up in progress. Nice squeeze-out top and bottom. Next stop, the top!

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