From the machine room to the bench room

I completed jointing and planing the workbench base components down to about 2 mm oversize today and apart from a couple that needed some extra attention on the jointer everything went well.


The next step is to refine the reference face and edge on each component with a bench plane before taking them down to final dimension back in the machine room. This can take a while depending on how each component looks after the rough milling process.





I started with the front stretcher and I've still got a bit of work to do - accepted tolerance here is 0.25 mm so any light showing beneath your straight edge has to be taken out by hand planing before you can move on the the next one.