Rather high winds over the last day or so, so I pulled off the tarp and clamps today.
No leaks in the tarp, glue seems to be gluing. Cool. Continue reading →
Woodworking
11
Sep 16
Fit vice, glue aprons
Not quite a sunny day, but at least bright and reasonably dry. So got started after breakfast and flipped the bench back up onto the sawhorses. Holy pineapple but that thing’s getting heavy. Took the flush-cut saw to the pegs and a few of the more excessive tenon ends.
I do like the look of drawbored tenons. I’m not as fond of the surface after my flush-cut saw proved its manufacturers didn’t quite understand the concept of a flush-cut saw…
Time to mount the vice now. Continue reading →
10
Sep 16
Drawboring, vice holes and stress testing
Right. Sunny morning, most of the last few days torrential rain dried up by the time breakfast was done, so out with the bench parts from the shed and onto the sawhorses and away we go. First thing to do is the finish making drawbore pegs, and then on we go with finally putting this thing together.
Hm. Help required here… Continue reading →
