I decided to stop posting every time I did something on the bench to get it built but I have been taking photos along the way and will post these over the next week or two now that the bench is complete.
Just the tail vice to finish off and most of the machine work has been done on the components.
I'm dry fitting the dovetails at the moment which is hard work; there is so much friction inside a dovetail on a 70 mm thick component you have to really beat on it to get the joint to close and again to get them apart.
It's a fine balance; take too much off and the joints will be sloppy but leave too much on and you run the risk of them not closing when glue is added into the equation and everything start to swell up.
I'll let you know how I get on...
