Bench re-do pt II........

It is now going into day 7 of this cold. I'm glad that my hip doesn't hurt anymore when I cough but my snot locker is filled to bursting. I have gone through 3 boxes of tissues and I have 4 more in reserve. I can't believe how much snot my body can produce. It looks like the chest cold went north to invade up there to continue to make me feel miserable.

I went to the shop this morning and I don't feel like I got a lot accomplished but I'll take what I did and move on. I purposely glued something on to the bench so I couldn't do anything else. I want the glue up to cook until tomorrow. That forces me to take it easy and let my body wage war against the bad germs.

drawer runners installed

I'm blaming the cold for the mind fart I made putting these in. This will the front of the bench as I work at it. I installed the runners as if the front of the bench was the other side. The runners are flush with that edge of the rail but on this side they are a tad off because I thought this was the back and who cares.

I had one more hiccup on this to deal with. The base isn't square to the ends. It's off by an 1/8" strong. The two end drawer runners I had to shim out from the uprights. I put them in square to the front rail or in this case, the rear rail. I had thought of putting in 2 big drawers but changed my mind. I didn't have a warm and fuzzy feeling about hanging that big of a drawer off runners like this. You won't see any of this once the drawers are in

ends closed

With the ends closed in my drawers shouldn't become a catch for all that's going on in the shop. I used the original drawer runners from the first drawer to go between the uprights. This will keep my planes from falling out there as I put them away.

ouch!

I knew that I had blown this out but not this badly. That split goes back for over 6". I'm going to have to come up with some way of gluing this.

the old back tool tray rail

If I glue this to back of the bench it will give me a width of almost 24". The far end with the end cap still in place is about 2 degrees off of square and this near end is square. I made both cuts with my panel cross cut saw. With each cut I make, I'm getting better, and a little cocky now too. I might have to screw something up to humble me before I get full of myself.

this side is too big

I have to lose the far left upright. It was there to support the shoulder vise that I no longer have. I haven't quite figured out exactly where I want to saw it off at yet. The base has enough overhang on both ends past each upright that it will fit on the bench top. Once that's cooked I can get an exact line  where I'll be sawing.

trying to figure out the best way to do this

This 2x is bowed and crowned. I think the bottom edge of the bench is want I should try to get flush and even because that's where the top will rest on the base. It's proud of the bench top more on one end then the other. I'll plane that flush after it's cooked.

getting it ready for gluing

I used my jack to clean up the two mating faces. I used my chisel to clean it up by the end cap. After it was cleaned up I marked and cut the long end.

cooking

It's a tad bit on the chilly side in the shop today. I did this glue up with yellow glue so after a couple of hours I should be able to take it out of the clamps. I'm going to wait until tomorrow because I want this to be secure connection.

back door bench do over

I like to see wood when  I make something. My wife likes to see paint. She won this one. I got one coat of gray tinted primer on this. Tomorrow I'll sand it down and hopefully only have to put 2 top coats on. My father taught me how to paint and handle a brush, but I never really paid attention to the finer points of painting i.e. primers, top coats, etc. I was just a hired hand doing what I was told to do.  He's gone now so I have to try and remember how he would have done it.

This was it for today.  Not too bad considering I feel like a pile of something a dog would leave on your freshly mowed lawn. Tomorrow I have to go back to work because if I stay out another day I need a doctors excuse. I'm too stupid to know being light headed, sneezing constantly, coughing and hacking up multicolor bits of my lungs, and emptying my snot locker every ten seconds could mean that I'm sick. I have to pay a doctor $135 to have him tell me that and give me an excuse slip.

accidental woodworker

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"
Aristotle