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In the chest of drawers he used stub tenons on the bottom rail on the front that mated into a mortise in the sides. ep8 is where he makes it and ep10 shows it going together You could do something like that and make your side panels from rail and stile construction with front connecting top and bottom rails with shallow mortise and tenons to connect the two sides. you could use offset mortises and have regular length tenons if you are worried about strength.
My experience says most definitely use the dowels at every m/t joint. Unless you are using some high grade construction adhesive even water proof glue can’t stand up to the sun and humidity. Consider using rabbeted edges on the slats. Deep grooves for the ends of the slats will help provide a little resistance to warping. Cull through the wood until you find really nice straight grain for the thin stuff especially.
the joys of work holding! That’s what has allowed Kreg and other to make an industry of jigs and clamps. Screw it to the floor or clamp it against the legs of your bench or even to a door frame. Whatever it takes to give yourself that “3rd hand” that Paul mentions frequently. Keep your scribed line as close to the floor as feasible. No point cutting off more leg than needed. Paul has shown this technique a couple of times.
If I remember correctly, you can compensate for unequal thickness boards from below on Paul’s style bench by adding filler material to the thinner board at the supports. It’s been a while since I have watched his bench build. I already had a bench so never built his.
Since I am still a novice at planing, I still put sight lines to plane to. Some day I will be able to work without them but for now I use my scrap wood and pencil marking gages to give me marks on the board not to plane past. My”eye” is getting better but I still find it easy to get carried away without my marks.
Paul does a cutting board using a Workmate. If you aren’t sure you want to do woodworking or are on a limited budget, buy a sheet of plywood and 7 2×4 studs. (I am in the US) Split the plywood (3/4″ thickness) into two 2’x8′ sheets and laminate with glue. I used scrap wood as battens to sandwich the sheets. Use a 2×4 down each long side to stiffen. I used screws and glue. Draw back is having to remember and not ruin a saw on them. Double the other 2xs and cut to length for your legs. The last 2x is used as diagonals to brace the legs. Poor man’s work bench. I used mine for several years before building a real one. It shakes and moves when planing and you have to chop over the legs but it still gets the job done for approximately 50 bucks. A wooden double screw clamp clamped to the bench can be used as a clamp. I still use a cheap Pony bench clamp. Would love a nice one someday.
A little research shows that Olive wood is not readily available for much beyond turning blanks. And has a fruity odor.
http://www.wood-database.com is a useful site for research. Hickory,ash and pecan are listed as having low odor but are not easy to work. -
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