I'm getting some traction now. Time to get the body in 1 piece.
First thing was to clear away everything that was packed around and touching the workbench. That gave me room to get down and make sure the bench was dead flat bothways. I'm working in a basement. I clamped down a piece of hardboard mdf with center lines, and hot glued the center section to it. Level.
Mortise and loose tenon. KISS. Front and rear both the same size tenons, extending equally into the center section. I'm going nuts detailing this thing. Gotta die of something...
This is when the front and back sections got final length and weight.
I attached the rear section first, still using that 1/4" all thread. I needed to lose a little weight in the rear. The rear tenon has a through hole for the rod. I was able to balance the weight by the size of the through hole, shouldn't do anything as far as strength. The ring on the rear section that abuts the front section is oversize, fudge factor. The rear section was glued on separately from the front. The front section was 2 separate glue ups. First the tenon and more rings. . Next I clamped down some mdf to the bench. I turned the little end of the speed clamp around to make it a pusher. Putting the front on was easy money now. Pic is lost in space somewhere. Just like the last pic, using speed clamp as a pusher. Goddamm the pusher man, Steppenwolf.
This took all day to get me to here. Once again, Shinto rasp is the star of the show getting it looking right.
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