Sunday, July 13, 2014

First Set of Legs

I put a set of legs together last night, just to see how they look. I still have some final trimming to do so the shoulders will pull up flush, I expect there are some nasty bits in the bottom of the mortices, but will take care of final fitting and cleaning out just before I pin everything together.

If MsOK will leave me be, if it happens it will be like the virgin birth, I will have the other set rough fit tonight and will finish up the base during the week. If I'm honest with myself a good timeline is finishing up the base next weekend.

This is like going on a long road trip, enthusiasm runs out about an hour before the trip runs out. I'm ready to get this sucker up-right and go back to work making furniture and do I have a pile of that lined up to finish and even more to start.


 

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  1. Jonathan10:54 AM

    Wow! You're doing a fantastic job with your bench build. I'm amazed with how fast you have been progressing. I have been building mine, albeit intermittently, for a couple of months now and I'm no where near as far along as you are. I just about have my bench top finished, but the legs and stretchers are still but a twinkle in my eye. I look forward to reading more.

    All the best,

    Jonathan
    benchblog.com

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  2. I'm a OK guy2:23 PM

    Jonathan,

    Thanks, one of the reasons this build is going so fast is the bench is very simple. With each bench build I've removed unused/little used appliances and now I'm down to just a Record/Paramo #52 face vise and no tail/wagon vise. Add in that I built one very similar three years ago so my butt scratching is also limited because most of the problems were solved during the earlier build. This bench is mostly a clone of the SYP bench but simpler.

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