The fourth day of our workbench class began by fitting the tenons into their correct mortises; it can be quite time-consuming to make sure that each one fits perfectly. A shoulder plane is handy for this task.
Trimming tenons
Fitting tenons
We then glued the dog runs that we cut yesterday, on to the bench tops.
Squeeze it tight!
Dog runs glued on
We then finished fitting all the tenons and cut and smoothed the profiles on the foot and upper sections of the base.
Spokeshaving the curve
All in a day’s work.
Jonathan Schwennesen with Frank Strazza
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Benches are looking nice, Jonathan! Looks like everyone is having fun, too.