so we've got our bench tops laminated
that means they're glued up we've left them to dry overnight and now I've got
to surface plane
the under side surfaces of the bench tops, the underside is where we want to
make sure there's no twist in there because when we start to assemble all
the components will end up with a twisted top a twisted frame everything
will be twisted and anything we add to that later like cupboards or shelves and
so on will be twisted too so I want to get this right and how we're going to do
that
first of all I'm going to skim off the unevenness on the whole bench and I'm
going to use a number 4 plane, this is my favourite plane
I can do anything with a number four that you can do with a four and a half
or a five, five-and-a-half pretty much, I like all of the planes I'm not really
differentiated I'm just saying that I can do everything with this on this
bench that I need to do so you just need a plain Jane number four plane no thick irons
no heavy weights
this will do the job and watch this, so I'm going to go tangentially across the
grain here
first of all you can hear I'm taking nothing off here and then I come to the
sides and I'm taking a little bit off there
but I keep working on the high spots a little bit more until I get a
nice straight edge across here keep checking here, look for the high spots
this is where you start to see how well your joints come together
these are all nice and tight use the edge of you plane, your corner of your
plane is going to be straight
so just use that save a little time you can use a straightedge if you want to
so I've got this first one foot fairly good
there's a technique instead of sitting behind it
throw the plane at it this way to work backwards from one end to the other end
so at the moment we're just trying to get this any cut, anyone unevenness out
high on the outside edges, pretty straight now
now we're flat there so I work across the length of the top now
yeah really worked well
pretty high on this outside one here and I can see that, you can hear I'm planing
against the grain there, so I turn around and working on the pool
I'm fairly flat, in fact I'm flat
what I'm gonna do now is use some winding sticks these will help guarantee
the tops not twisted so I just took a 1 x 2 to x 1
depends on what side of the pond they're parallel another flat line across
the top edge of one of these pieces so that I have a contrast
it's all I need and I can put one piece down here
keep it even and then I stand at this other end and I site one with the other
like this and there's a hair fluctuation there which will take me, it's really
this corner and this corner that's slightly high but it's very quickly
remedied here
now I'm going to eyeball along here and I'm nice and straight
one more test
you don't take very much underneath to distort what you're getting so
and that's it time after twist
so that's the underside of my bench top
I'm going to leave the other side until my bench is altogether and I'm going to
wind up the whole of the benchtop from both sides and I'll show you how we do
that when we get the bench together