Wood Working Work Bench
Page 2 The legs
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I choose to build square frame legs since I felt this would offer the best stability. And easy construction. I started by laminating 2 2x4's together to make some 4x4's. These were cut to size. The tops and bottoms were cut to about 1 inch short of the width of the top. The legs where cut to be about 4 inches shorter then I wanted the top of the bench to be. The bench ended up being about 3.5 inches thick. | ||
| After the pieces where cut to size I used large mortis and tendon joints to hold the legs together. Here shows cutting the mortises in the tops and bottoms. | |
| And here the tendons for the legs. | |
| Another shot of the mortis. | |
| Nice tight fit. | |
| Test fit of the legs. | |
| I then laminated some 2x8's together to get cross supports. I then cut mortis and tendons for these. | |
| Dry test fit of frame. | |
| After the legs where glued I put pegs of 1/4inch. | |
| Test fitting top on, the clamps are because I had a large twist in the top at this point. | |
| After a lot of planing I finally got it to sit flat on legs. | |
| A shot down top shows that it is flat (the gentle curve is due to camera lens effect). | |