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I took the advice above, and went back to the you tube video.
I decided there’s 8 mortises to do, this is the practice! The last two are I think acceptable.
Nowhere near as crisp as Paul’s but there you go.Tenons are cut for the first two holes and fitted. So far off it’s laughable. Defo needing some supporting plugs.
I wonder how many blown holes are hiding under aprons in the various bench photos.The key is patience and controlled strikes with the mallet. Last two mortises better.
Same for the tenons, patience and much planing to get them to fit.Sharpening – advice above was really good thanks.
Small goes on the coarse diamond stone, check for square and then proceed. More or less there.But really, philosophy now is, make the bench.
It will be my bench. It will not be perfect, but it will be service able. And I will have made it.
If it’s truly rubbish….use it to make a better one.Cheers
BobThanks Darren and Sanford – I’ll regroup and have another go.
I just waded in. Marked out the mortice and started chopping. Paul made it look very straight forward!
It’s annoying as I got the first leg correct, but then lost it on the next two holes (on two different legs – another error, just mess one leg up at a time!).
Sharpening info very useful…thanks for that.
Chisel (skewed) originally on sharpening on wet stones.
Moved to diamond stones and it’s coming back in line slowly.Calming down and thinking through it’s been a lack of patience, whacking at the chisel when not perpendicular.
It is a set of skills, and that needs training…
It’s the eagerness to get a working bench…so then I can practice.Back to it…
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