Then it was onto finishing the underframe for my bench and making a set of wedges.
The two sides are glued together but the stretchers are dry fitted using wedges so that the bench can be easily disassembled and moved if/when necessary. I decided to go for Maple wedges (to match the bench top) spliced with a strip of Purple Heart - a hint of what's to come vice-wise...
And then it was on to the bench top and lugging a number of 2-metre plus long (very heavy) planks of maple about the machine room to get them down to size. I managed a couple before needing a cuppa and a sit down! I'm still digging the splinters out of my hands.
Meanwhile, as it was pouring with rain outside (and I mean really pouring) Stanners decided it would be much more fun to sit outside the workshop and keep lookout than stay in on his own and have a snooze in his basket. Hence, I returned to find one very wet dog!
And amidst all that I've been working on the design for a coffee table - my first commisson post-bench! I can't believe I've been here nearly four months already. It's going way too fast.
More next week.....
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The table is looking great! I really like watching how it comes together - thank you for your photo updates! any ideas for coffee table you can share?
Love the Purple Heart. Think your next commission might have to be a gazebo for Stanners!
Love the Purple Heart. Think your next commission might have to be a gazebo for Stanners!
Thanks - glad you like it. the coffee table is still under wraps at the moment, I'm afraid, until the client signs off on the design. Althought he design is done, they've yet to confirm on materials...
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