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Silly me ..

I spent yesterday stooping over my bench working on my cabinet and by the end of day had a sore back.

This morning I decided to pull out the BOB (bench on bench). Should have done that sooner!

Places to purchase: Philadelphia Furniture Workshop or Tools For Woodworking

Outfitting the cubbies with dividers

Today I started fitting the dividers for the cubbies and putting the tools in place to make sure the fit is correct.

Tool Cabinet interruption – Workbench stock break down

Today I interrupted my tool cabinet making to break down the stock for my workbench base that I’ll be building as part of the workbench guild build. My workbench top is already complete so I won’t be making that part.

I really don’t like cutting 8/4 stock on the table saw. It always feels kinda scary so I used my track saw to cut a straight edge and then crosscut to rough dimensions. This is an idea I stole from watching some of Marc’s Usteam.

So here’s the pile of Western (soft) maple all cut so that I can tuck it away in the shop until the guild build is in full swing (January).

Trip to Edensaw

Mike Lingenfelter and journeyed over to Port Townsend to pick up workbench material for the upcoming Wood Whisperer “guild build”. This was also our first official meeting of the Modern WoodworkingAssociation.

It was much fun. Perhaps a bit for me than Mike since I found what I needed. Darn! Maybe we’ll have to go back.

Anyway, I can home with some soft (Western) maple to re-build the base of my workbench. This is the next project after my tool cabinet is complete. I’ll be adding a leg vise to and an end vise to my bench which will make things really nice.