I just finished gluing up the two base assemblies for the traveling workbench. The second through mortise tenon froze about 6mm shy. Oh shit, oh shit were in the hell is Lumpy. I scrambled around finding Lumpy, clamps and a block to beat against and managed to get the joint to seat ok, not great but ok. BTW, I didn't have Lumpy or even clamps out because the dry fit went so well. Shame on me.
After gluing up the second base assemble I inspected the first one carefully and saw that I had a case of the dumbass with the first. Even though on something like a workbench I chisel mark and fill in the marks with a black pen on each piece so there is no question with tenon goes into which mortise. Well I guess there was a question because the #1 tenon was put in the #4 mortise. The good news is I get 'em all pretty close to the same size. The bad is I usually relieve the back shoulder slightly so the show side pulls up very tight. Guess what, the inside shoulder is beautiful the face one not so much.
I can tell myself it makes no never mind.....It's a workbench and after the first trip to the PNW the slight gap will be the least of it's booboos. Whatever, it still pisses me off that I can be so dumb.
It sucks when it is labeled and you still get it wrong.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good thing you aren't involved with airplanes or anything like that.
ReplyDeleteOh, wait a minute...
Steve,
DeleteGood one :-).
ken
Ralph,
DeleteMsBubba thinks I'm the bull in the china shop, sometimes she is correct.
ken
Today I put a big curve in a front stretcher upside down. Feel better?
ReplyDeleteAndy,
DeleteThanks, I needed that but I'm sure you didn't. :-)
I hope it wasn't on the sideboard.
ken
Ken and Andy
ReplyDeleteI did not laugh, cause I too made some doozy, but it sure made me smile :-)
Glue ups are always a tad stressing cause there is often chances for a mess ups, a slip, a joint that wont close and the out of square resulting assembly, which measured square before???
And they say that rehearsing the glue up sequence helps Hah!
Workmanship of risks!! :-)
Bob, who only had that happened once or twice... well errrr...
Bob,
ReplyDeleteYep, went through the dry fit run through and all that rot. Not only that but when the first tenon when home too easy I thought; "self, that sure went in easy this hide glue is slicker than usual." Wrong sawdust breath, sure would have been easy to stop there :-).
Of course I'll never do that again, at least not until the next time.
ken