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Well. It’s done. I will enjoy having my saws more accessible. A little closer to proper garage shop order.
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It will only take a couple minutes to plane 1/8" of softwood end grain and a few minutes to plane 1/8" of hardwood end grain with your jointer or jack plane. Then finish it with your smoothing,...

As a follow up, I request input from the pros:

- Though I would not do it again, I did choose to use my glued up & finished back panel - Q: will using no. 8 screw in a no. 12 pilot hole through...

Thank you Carl and Bill also.
I have already built (and finished) the back panel.
Doing this project again, I think I would use my plow plane to prepare tongue and groove joints between each back...

All solid wood
no sheet goods
anticipating shear lag to accommodate wood movement where screws are located
back panel is solid spruce
carcus material is white pine

Thoughts on the following?:
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I am working on a saw till cabinet to fit within my existing tool cabinet, which is why it looks as it does.

I am wondering what others think about...

Hi William,

I have searched "Bill Howes" as well as "Spruce workbench, lessons learned" in the search bar without success... Perhaps I am approaching the search incorrectly...
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Pva glue; white then yellow. Clamped well over night.
Most cracking is the glue line, not all.

Thanks Andrew
Your input is appreciated. I had mentioned earlier that circumstances did not allow me to properly allow my material to Acclimatize. I had four days to build my bench without my...

Thanks Jim
familiar with this feature, considered it and ruled it out

One major factor at the time of build. My wife and daughter were out of town for 4days and climatization could not be achieved. Considering kiln dried spruce is 19% when it enters the market, 15%...

Hi all,

So, this is my first post (ever, anywhere). I have become obsessed with hand tool wood work and have been at it now for about 3 years. I, like many others, cruise the web and read...