Hand Crafted Woodworking
The objective today is the bottom shelf. As the bottoms rails were milled, a 3/8″ dado was cut in each. I had also milled up the shelf supports several days before. So all was ready to start the install and shelf milling process. I also setup a 2nd work table in my “finishing” area. […]
Objectives for today are trimming the drawbore peg, drilling pre-drill holes for lag screws and sizing, cutting tenons and fitting the long rails. Trimming the drawbore pegs was a first for me. I used the Veritas Flush-Cutting saw. The cut was amazing. A little experimentation to hold the saw very flat and I […]
The objective today is legs. Squaring the ends, cutting to final length, locating and cutting all of the mortises. This includes lots of work with the plans to find dimensions and locate the correct location on the correct face of the milled leg. The day started with the plans. I got out the large version. […]
The objective for today is flattening the bottom and milling the 6 rails. Lot of hand work with my planes. Been out of the shop for a few days. It was good to get back to the workbench build. The first task was to get the top out of the clamps. I had to lift […]
The task for Day 4 is to complete the milling process for the bench top boards. I learned a lot from completing the first section. The process would be much more efficient to mill all the boards at one time. I did not accomplish all of the processing today. I got the […]
