I completed the long stretchers this morning – and yes, each of the four mortise and tenon joints got better as I went along. Funny how that works. I’m half tempted to do them all over again, but, hey, this is only a workbench. On to the next step which is cutting out the half-blind…
X Marks the spot. For the next mortise. I’ll need to do four of these, one on the end of each stretcher. The width is 3/8 inch leaving wall thickness of 5/16. For some reason, I don’t have a 3/8 chisel, so I’ll need to pick up one of those tomorrow morning. Fortunately, they’re fairly…
This is beside the point, but last night before bed, I took one 5 mg Melatonin tablet to help me sleep. Whew! I won’t be doing that again! I don’t think it helped much last night, but I’ve been trying to wake up all day. And to think I almost took two of them. I…
A good turnout for breakfast this morning with Mary, John, John, Brad, Roger, and Lynn. We sat in the back corner like we’ve done before – where our waitress had a hard time finding us. As we were getting ready to leave, no consensus was formed on where we’d sit the next time. I guess…
We now have four legs, each fabricated from SYP 2x4s. The next step is to each pair of these legs into left and right bench supports. Each of these supports will be angled toward the center at 15° off the vertical, thus providing rigidity for hand plane activity.
The net began with Gary checking in at 0758, closely followed with Mary, Harry, and Lynn for a total of five. Gary and I kicked off the meeting through a brief discussion of him helping his eighth-grade step-son with some algebra problems – not to mention they were word problems; they’re always a little tricky….