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As promised, here are some fotos of the first half of the bench top.
The first one shows just the underside, the second one side and underside, and you can see, how the pencil line has two angles, one from before getting the sides parallel. The third one is the upper side, completely untouched, I didn’t even remove the glue.
Tonight, I have discarded one log. It is extremely bent and has a nasty crack. I started working on another one, also quite bent, but I got it straight enough to match the first piece, that I apparently had prepared on Monday. I did the side, where the ends are high. So, I am left with the side, that has a belly in the middle. I used a scrub plane with fairly shallow setting to remove the biggest part of the waste. With my smoothing plane, I would still be planing. Now there is a gap of less than 1/4″, which can easily be compressed. At first, there was a high spot near one end, and I could see, how the ends on that side separated, when the main gap closed, and it needed careful looking to identify, on which log I had to plane.
I still need to find some pine for the rails on the legs. In northern Germany, pine is usually sold in small pieces to start fires, and as thin profiles for walls etc. And there is pine in small dimensions, 1/8″ to 1/4″ thick, 1/4″ to 3-3/4″ wide. Eventually, I want to replace the fir top with a pine top, and so I want the leg parts completely made from pine. I will then look for fir to make leg parts for the fir top and sell that bench.
Today, I had to go home from work by subway, and I passed a long train loaded with wood. It is a pity to see all these logs, which will probably be chopped to firewood. For some reason, people still fall for the lie, that heating with wood is more environmental friendly than burning gas or oil. If your definition of “environment” is “living room”, it might be correct, but for some obscure reasons, woods in eastern Europe are getting thinner each year. And since my plan is to live at least another 100 years, I am a bit concerned.
Dieter
- This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by Hugo Notti.
- This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by Hugo Notti.