Hand Crafted Woodworking
The objective today is to get the short rails and corresponding legs completed and assembled. Some finishing steps were required on the short rails to have them ready for glue up and draw boarded. Drilled all the holes in the top short rails that will allow the 3/8″ x 5 1/2″ lag bolts to be […]
The objectives today were to complete the top glue up and mill the legs from the disaster glue up yesterday. I pulled the clamps off top sections 3 and 4 from yesterday’s glue up. The 2nd half looked really great. I then went through a complete dry run for the last top glue up. This […]
The objective for today is the glue up for the second half of the top and get the leg parts milled and glued up. The glue up for the top when great. Learned a few tricks from the first had and did not man handle the sections so much. So got the glue done and […]
The objective for today was a little underterminded. I thought I was going to work on leg milling but I took the 4th section out of the clamps and that started a whole sequence of events. I really wanted to see what the dog holes and tail vise slot would do when I ran the […]
The objective for today is routing out the tail vise slot and complete the glue up of the forth section of the top. That will be the last section. Built a jig to allow routing the template slot. This is being done on the side of the top piece. It uses the same router setups […]
The objective for Day 6 is to get the third top section glued up and start the milling and building process for the legs. The second section came out of the clamps in fine shape. I decided to cut off the excess length with my $20 handsaw. The saw and my technique have a long […]
The goal for today is to complete the milling of all of the top boards. Also, I wanted to fix some problems with the jointing process. First, fixing the problems. I thought a lot about my milling processes and what could be causing the problems. Two possible problems came to mind. First it was hard […]
Day 1 I milled the first 4 boards for the bench top. These were ready to be glued. Day 2 was the glue up. This was very interesting and I learned what worked and what did not work. I am using TiteBond Extended glue. This give me 15 minutes open time and 25 minutes working […]
