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I believe there is a new bench in that pile plus a couple more upcoming projects.

I would laminate a piece on the back also. I’m doing 3x5 legs also. I’ll make sure I’m focused when I start milling so I don’t copy you?

That’s a good deal. I thing it is normally $27 a gallon here at Lowe’s

Awesome. I’m picking up a gallon of tb 3 tomorrow on the way home from work.

Don’t you have a bench build coming up soon to?

Even with a few week head start you could probably still beat me ?

I was torn I’ve heard the same argument to. That is kinda of my thought to. I’m not disappointed at all with going soft maple. That an the nightmare of surfacing it by hand ?. I mostly do all my projects in either soft maple,walnut or popular so I’m right along the same hardness as them. I almost went with popular for the top to but with no frame work under it to support the top. An popular was kinda low on the stiffness chart so I bumped up to maple What’s a woodworking forum without a roubo build??

I spent most of the day today making room for all the lumber today. I’ve kinda fell behind on the plan to have the shop ready for the last remodel of the shop in waiting on time an funds to build this thing.

Well the talk is over about beginning the work bench. I placed the order with my lumber guy last week. I going after work Tuesday to pick it up. Originally the plan was hard maple for the top. For some reason the price has gone up a lot. So I went with soft maple instead. The base will be popular. I got 12/4 for the legs an 8/4 for the rails an stretcher. Let the chaos begin.

I’m glad this one worked out for you. Good thing is they made it right by you this time.

Glad to see you are getting back in the shop. I’m just the opposite I get way more time in the winter than summer months. I got most all my chores around the house now. So when my lumber order comes in a week or so I’ll be back at shop time for awhile.

True

The x,y table is the main reason I bought it. It takes all the fiddling out of the equation. You clamp the piece down one time an can work the whole mortise. Playing with it last night the only part I wasn’t impressed by was the depth stop. It’s don’t a big deal tho it doesn’t effect the joint one bit of the bottom of the mortise is deeper or not flat.

Yea that being a piece of pine hardwood would even be cleaner

Thanks it been a long time coming. The next few projects have quite a few m&t joinery in it so this thing will get a work out. To bad my lil side keep me busy project is all dovetails. So it will have to sit a minute

I finally got it in today got it dialed in. The assembly went good instructions were very easy to follow. Adjustments for just about anything you could think of. Definitely the easiest/quietest mortise I’ve ever made.

All these bench talks are running together?

Legs is where I messed up a lil I had at 3x5x36 at total of 16 bdft. I could build that with 8/4 stock without planing it off so. 64-top 24-legs 8-long stretchers 5.5-short stretcher Come to 101.5 bdft So 100bdft hard maple for the top an 50bdft of popular for base. That should give some extra to make the chop correct?

No it’s About 8’ long by 24” wide so the same. My plan was to glue up the boards full length then trim the offsets from glue up off square. So it will end up probably 7’10” ish. With no bread board end an no second short stretcher to support the split top. The legs will mortise into the top a inch or so

So I’ve sat down an added up my next 3 projects board feet by my drawing. These numbers are fairly exact. Normally I add 20% to it an call it good. Where I’m doubting my self is my bench project on the list. My number that I came up with is 93 bdft. I was planning on ordering 120 bdft all 5-6” wide by 8’ long to hold waste to a minimum. What has me second guessing myself is I see all these build post saying that the lowest to start with is like 175bdft. Now I’m not doing split top design. So that could be the difference. How much extra could there actually be?

They make different types of fire ant killer. The fact is the epa or whoever has taken all the good stuff out of them now. I have finally found some stuff that will work most of the time. To go with Coop I’ve never done boiling water. I have done gas an a match it works well. Also works for yellow jackets to. When I was a kid my favorite thing was to take old AA batteries an push them into the mound that will kill them also.

I was going to say keep the ant killer out but I remembered your not in the south. I did something similar at our house within a month it was just a massive fire ant hill. But for that month my son was in hog heaven.

I would definitely give it a shot trying for the 17”. I would check tho if you do go with the 17” what the smallest blade you can use on it for cutting tight curves an so on

Still nothing!!!!!

I’m interested to just slow to respond ?