I can't say I like or agree with a lot of Paul's ramblings but as a teacher of the basics of woodworking layout of joints and tuning up old tools you can't go far wrong I know he's improved my woodworking by a large degree
Legs were 80 year old door liners stripped of paint cut up to rebate and laminated gave me 3 1/2 square Legs rails were timber I already had main slab was an 8 x 3 roof joist from someone's attic who were having dormer again stripped of paint and laminated gave me a 14 x 2 3/4 aprons found some...
Started chopping in recesses for leg assemblies and wedges in mine I'm going mainly the hand tool root for most things have used a small table saw for some dimensioning
As Long as you create a clean joint line the joint will be strong im also currently making a trad english workbench and most of timber I've used most would consider firewood and All pieces are laminated
They look pretty simarlar to the record roundel blue BS381C 110, paragon paints do really good enamels for traction engines really hard wearing and easy to apply with a brush they have this colour
My £l6 aprons thankfully the one below doesn't have the twist that the one in the vise had which was very pleasant to hand plane not but you gain knowledge doing I was hoping to get the well out my material too but had to cut a lot of bad wood to waste but that's you get for £4 a board
I presume tri phase in Italian is 3 phase so definitely not 2 its more than likely just 3 phase and earth but if your not competent to determine that with a multimeter like deema said get in a spark