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13 February 2018 at 7:05 pm #470972
Indeed, the few tear outs that were left on the bench top after smoothing I just filled with 2-part epoxy to make sure they don’t catch, and used a card scraper to smooth them out.
11 February 2018 at 2:53 am #468945I just finished mine from the Home Depot douglas fir, and I’m very happy with the result. It’s from the older videos with two full tops. I used the 5/8″ recesses in the aprons to make sure the wedge has enough surface to push against, although I’m certainly no expert. So far I haven’t had any issues with the apron being thinner, and mine is even a bit less than 1½” due to planing it flat – about 1 and 3/8″.
I hand planed the bench tops down to 3″ thick. That was a lot of work, but got rid of the rounding, so it looks quite good now.
I laminated the legs from two pieces for a final size of 3″ by 2 and 3/4″, they’re plenty sturdy as far as I can tell.
My two biggest problems with the material were: 1) The mortise holes look terrible, like Ed mentioned, it’s weirdly spongy. 2) Tear out when planing would go very, very deep. When I hit reverse grain with the scrub plane, it would take out 1/8″ deep gouges. Probably for similar reasons as the spongy end-grain in mortise holes.
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