Workbench legs mistake, how to fix?
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Hi all,
I made a rather stupid mistake while building the workbench. I have cut and prepared my legs only to find out at the end that one leg is shorter than the others with about 1 cm (25/64 in). I would really appreciate if you would give me some suggestions on the best way to fix this. The tools at my disposal are:
* hand saw
* tenon saw
* scrub plane
* smoothing plane
* chiselsThank you in advance for any suggestions.
Best regards,
Tudor
Take away or add wood. A pad of quarter inch ply wood might get you in the ballpark. Otherwise very careful cross cutting of the three long legs using the knife wall method. A centimeter times three legs is a lot of end grain planing.
If you haven’t cut any of the joints at the top I would pack that out with a piece of wood.
If you have, then you can only add wood to the end, or make a new leg.
I wouldn’t cut the other legs unless you have a jig of some sort, as it’s difficult to guarantee that all legs would end up the same when cutting by hand.
If you haven’t cut the joints yet, make the two legs of the same length.
Anyway, a leg-frame is topped with a “bearer”; so for that leg-frame (whether right or left) use a bearer which is 1 cm thicker than for the other leg-frame.Thank you all for your suggestions. I ended up gluing a 1 cm slice of wood on top of the leg. I am thinking now to cut the mortise a bit further than 1 inch from the (new) top as i have to compensate for that glued piece, otherwise the chance of the upper part splitting will probably be greater?
Cheers,
Tudor
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