So after a long layoff, I put in a day of mortise layout, stretcher cutting, hole boring, mortise bashing and tenon cutting fun.
Stretcher cutting, hand sawed this beam in half first, then to length. I started with a fine crosscut saw:
It was slow going until I remembered to use my coarse crosscut saw instead, much quicker:
Boring holes for the Mortises in two of the legs:
After bashing out the waste from the Mortises:
Cutting the tenon from the stretcher beam:
Just need to true up the tenons to fit the leg mortises. I decided to fit the two short stretchers first before moving onto the long stretchers. I thought I could get both short stretchers done today, but only got one of them done, the knots really slowed down my work. WD-40 on the saw plates helped but it was still a lot of work.
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Very nice. I am glad to see that you are already using the bench top for clamping things to. Keep it up man, your getting close now.
-- CHRIS, Charlottetown PEI Canada. Anytime you can repurpose, reuse, or recycle, everyone wins!