ok we're ready to make the aprons and the well board for the bench and the
aprons on the well board give a lot of stability to the bench and stop lateral
stresses from taking place so I'm assuming that you don't have wide boards
so I'm showing you how to laminate these into three sections, with three
laminations, it will give me a 12-inch apron and a 12-inch well board
so first of all I want to make sure this is fairly secure I could just sit on it
and that would work
but I'm going to clamp it down here and I'm using a number four plane again you
won't see me using any other plane on trying to avoid the wider planes because
this is what you're likely to have at home but you will have to learn to
sharpen it and set it up properly so first of all I want to take a shaving
off here but I want to find out if my machining, that you know came from the
lumberyard
was square, usually they are square so that means if my plane is registered
properly against this surface it should give me a clean shaving so here
just one just one shaving evenly off both sides transfer my clamp to this end
and I move backwards from where I was and I've got my edge
I'm quite happy that this is going to be square
yep yeah I'm dead square so that's one done this next one I'll have to do two
edges and the third one
I'll do one edge and then we'll glue that together so I
planed all my edges so I'm ready to glue up I've done my rehearsal I've got my
clamps on and I've adjusted everything so I can take these off
they're all set ready don't forget rehearsals are really important
a trial run all my joints clumped up tightly without any pressure hardly at
all so I'm going to run that glue against these two edges
I marked my edges the zigzag along here
I haven't found anything better than this zigzagging of the glue so after
forty-eight years of making furniture
I haven't found anything better, rub joint just to even out the glue and you
can see now you can see I've got nice even glue on there all the way along a
little bit like that but plenty of glue in there enough for what I'm doing
again a zigzag
these edges were quite knotty but they still plane very nicely
starting in the middle
keep them as flush as you can
this one's a little bit low so I'm going to go with one of my top clamps
here
this is just a hair difference between that one and this one so I cinch up
and then I pull up on this one
they're flush and then this one is high on this side and low on that side so
I'll be conscious of what that's doing and that's good
nice and flush there, watch your length I got a little stagger there but these are
not even lengths either so last one for this side and then I'm going to go back
in a minute and check them all
because sometimes you get slippage with the glue because you're really floating
these and then I can go back in, I'll allow that glue to evenly distribute
itself, this one is a lot lower than this one so I just pull up on this one
like that
that glue is now easy oozing out, same on this one I got a little stagger here
that works, great, so we're pretty much glued up here
here's another clamp here
this is no nonsense this is just straight forward
I like to take off the excess because it slows down it slows down the gluing time
so if you have too much excess on here
go ahead and take it off
that's great
so I know I just have two more to do and that'll be my aprons and my well board
done, ready for the legs now