The boards milled & rabbeted, ready to be cut to lenth. |
I began by milling the Timberstrand just as I would any other lumber. A few quick passes on the jointer, a pass or two through the planer, a final trim on the table saw and voila, flat & square boards. In order to make a dado (yes, I know its actually a grove) in the middle of the frame pieces, I instead made a rabbet in two frame pieces and assembled them to make a dado. As Ive was holding out for a Forrest Dado King, I made the rabbet using two passes on my standard Woodworker II blade. As the panel will be composed of an MDF/OSB lamination, I used relative dimensioning to set the depth exactly to each sheet goods thickness (they are actually not the same thickness, even though theyre both nominally 3/4" thick). I then turned the board and cut the width of the rabbet to the same dimension as the depth (it wont matter if one sheet good panel is ever so slightly bigger than the other, theyll be cut via relative dimensioning too).
Gang cuts = perfect fits. |
Now that all the frames are made my next step is to cut and fit the panels, then glue an OSB frame & panel assembly to an MDF frame & panel assembly to make the final, bastard frame & panel assembly I plan to use. Then Ill have to finalize the legs and start thinking about the top. Much to do.
Ready for the panel. |
How did you attach your bench legs together?
p.s. - Sorry for all the linking, I got a bit carried achoice. I also just picked up a FlipHD, so heres a video of the fames to boot.
Wookbench Stretcher Panels from Dyami Plotke on Vimeo.
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