I'm starting the blog by wishing a very Happy Birthday to my amazing husband! I'm so happy to be on this journey with you - and it's wonderful to be celebrating on Angel!
Of course, Jim spent his day working. He flipped over the section of bench top that he was working on and did some hand planing of the joints to get the dried glue off.
The top side...
He put the biscuit cuts in the side to eventually connect the two halves together. He'll have to do that on the workbench because we'd never be able to lift it otherwise!
We then moved that half over to the workbench and brought the other section over to the sawhorses...
Jim got the 2" x 12" piece planed and the biscuit cuts made in both side. Then it was time to glue. He puts glue in each of the cuts and inserts a biscuit...
He uses his hammer to make sure each biscuit is set firmly in place...
Then more glue...
Then he puts glue on the other side...
And puts them together. Easier said than done - he has to slowly fit the biscuits together one by one.
All done and clamped. This one required even more clamps to flatten out any slight bows in the wood caused by the clamps themselves.
Speaking of clamps, Jim has to order clamps tonight that will be large enough to use when he has to clamp the two halves of the bench top together. Obviously this is a truth...
That project done and glue drying, Jim moved on to working with the boards he bought yesterday at the lumberyard. Here he's planing...
Jim is thrilled with this wood - it's much thicker than anything he could buy since a true 1" is more like 3/4" now. If he wants, he can plane it so that it is a true 1". Here's the maple...very pretty!
And the planed pine pieces...
Planing definitely makes man glitter (aka sawdust) but definitely not in the quantities we saw yesterday!
It definitely doesn't look like April out the window! It's been snowing lightly most of the afternoon - we probably have an inch or so on the ground and it's still snowing as I write this!
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| High 40/Low 33 - 1" snow |
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