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Hi Kevin,
I don’t check these messages often, so sorry for the delayed response. As George said, Paul goes over edge jointing large boards in other videos. Since I used construction grade lumber, all I had to do was plane the chamfer off of an edge, so it had a ninety degree corner, and glue them together. Usually I just do this by eye, but sometimes I will mark a line with a gauge to plane to. Paul goes over creating the seat profile in another video, I don’t remember which one. He used several methods, like a large hollow plane, a gouge, and even a shop made compass plane.
Hope this helps,
Shane
Sorry I didn’t answer this earlier, I just found the question. I glued the seat together by edge jointing a dimensional 2 x 12 and a 2 x 6. So it was 1 1/2 inches thick before shaping. The boards were SYP. I kind of eyeballed the profile I wanted and drew it in with a pencil. I used a scrub plane with a heavily chambered blade to remove most of the waste and refined it with a big gouge. I’ll say now that there wasn’t much difficulty, but at the time I remember cussing quite a bit. It took about two hours, maybe three. I finished it with a curved scraper. The back rail is SYP as well. The legs are ash and the spindles are white oak. I’m definitely making another one soon, it was a lot fun.
I used HD wood for my bench, purchased 2″ x 12″ SYP boards and ripped them by hand into three boards of equal width. Buying the larger boards made it easier to find clear stock. Nobody, other than my wife, would call my bench pretty. But, it works and is worlds better than not having one.
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