I'm not sure how it started but I offered to build this for my friend's wife (he provided the material.) The top is ash and the base is poplar. It is 8' long, 2' wide and 35" tall. Everything about it was done using hand tools. Milling, dimensioning, joinery, etc... I kept meticulous notes on time and process; at the end I put 72 hours into it.
I had never worked on anything this large before. My bench is actually only 5' long so I had to be creative sometimes. All rails are tenoned into the legs - 22 individual M&T were cut. The v-groove panels are floating (that X is just cosmetic because the liked the style). This had been consuming every precious moment of shop time I could get, but now that it is finished I almost miss working on it.
Anyway, I just wanted to share this with you. Hope you enjoy it!
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