The look of these appeals to me.
It appealed to the person who bought my bench, or at least he said they did. So another is being built.
This is just a post on using them.
Other ideas are encouraged.
With pre-drilling and the smooth sides it seems these need an improvement in holding power. Even though the bench base is glued the nails can contribute.
Barbed Wrought Nail.jpg
Here a sharp cold chisel is being used to put barbs on the corners of a nail.
Photo Note: The blue tape was added to the chisel because the reflection off of its surface effected the exposure making everything dark.
Here an old auger file is being used to remove a burr from the nail head due to a miss strike. Even with a safe edge file it is good to have a piece of wood under the file to keep from marking the wood.
Removing a Burr.jpg
The piece of wood being used here is the drill spacing template.
So far four templates have been made for these benches. The drilling template has the drill size and the rail size written on the other side.
Two, half templates have been made for the leg layout, short and tall legs. One template has been made for the rail ogee. All the templates have notes on them.
Maybe I should take a photo of the templates.
jtk