Stuart Ablett
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It is stupid hot and humid here today, the L shop is really slow, so I snuck away for a few hours......
I did the glue up! I put plastic under the paper, but I still do not like that big chunk of wood with glue dripping off it sitting on my tablesaw, so I soon moved it to the temp bench, that is after I flattened the temp bench's top.....
I knew that wood had a hump in the middle of each piece but I was surprised at how much of a hump, after all it is laminated of all sorts of little pieces
Now I have two ideas for the orientation of the bench when it is done....
Version one
Version two. The stuff at the far end of the shop will not be there when I finish (I'll have to find a place to put it, but I will) so I will have more room, but I'm thinking that the second orientation will be better, but the beauty of the new set up is I can try it both ways, heck even move it both ways
Tomorrow I have a guy coming over to cut up some wood, he is a friend of a friend, and he first contacted me before I had the cancer thing last fall, so he has been more than patient, I'll looking forward to meeting another foreigner woodworker! He needs to slice up some wood to build an acoustic guitar (I told him to sign up here and take in Alex's great thread!) I am sure that my resaw bandsaw can help him out!
Still mulling the couple of three different ways I can attach the top of the bench to the legs.
I think this is what I want to go with......
....a through dovetailed joint, I think it will be mondo strong and it looks good too!
Cheers!
I did the glue up! I put plastic under the paper, but I still do not like that big chunk of wood with glue dripping off it sitting on my tablesaw, so I soon moved it to the temp bench, that is after I flattened the temp bench's top.....
I knew that wood had a hump in the middle of each piece but I was surprised at how much of a hump, after all it is laminated of all sorts of little pieces
Now I have two ideas for the orientation of the bench when it is done....
Version one
Version two. The stuff at the far end of the shop will not be there when I finish (I'll have to find a place to put it, but I will) so I will have more room, but I'm thinking that the second orientation will be better, but the beauty of the new set up is I can try it both ways, heck even move it both ways
Tomorrow I have a guy coming over to cut up some wood, he is a friend of a friend, and he first contacted me before I had the cancer thing last fall, so he has been more than patient, I'll looking forward to meeting another foreigner woodworker! He needs to slice up some wood to build an acoustic guitar (I told him to sign up here and take in Alex's great thread!) I am sure that my resaw bandsaw can help him out!
Still mulling the couple of three different ways I can attach the top of the bench to the legs.
I think this is what I want to go with......
....a through dovetailed joint, I think it will be mondo strong and it looks good too!
Cheers!