Dave’s First Bench
We had a meager turnout at the Galoot meeting Thursday night, Jamey, Bruce, Chris along with me met at Jamey’s shop to get started on Dave’s bench. Actually, Chris, who arguably is the bench making expert of the SEMIWW, just came to lend moral support and didn’t actualy participate in any bench construction. This bench will be a modified Nicholson style of bench. It will have an open base with a shelf, front apron, leg vise and tail vise per the plans somewhere on the site.
Dave had milled some oak to Jamey’s specification as promised. He provided 4 legs, 4 side stretchers and the 2 bottom stretchers for the front and back. We decided to make 3/4″ X 2″ tenons and drawbore them during assembly. We also discussed attaching the top. Then we got down to business. Working in a shop designed for one person is difficult when ther are three people eager to make some sawdust, but we made some good progress. All of the side stretchers have tenons cut and Jamey bored the first mortise.
With any luck, we should be able to finish the mortise and tenons at the next meeting and dry assemble the base.
Pshaw! No argument necessary - I’m no expert!!!!