Stigmorgan
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I prefer the romance of hand tools but unfortunately my shoulders don't like the work involved in most handwork, either way the tools I have are limited so I make do with what I have.
New project for work
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Jester129
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With the sawing, chiselling and lugging those lumps of wood around the playground, I expect you are sleeping well at night!
Good on yer!! Whereabouts are the benches going, is it in that copse you told us all about?
Good on yer!! Whereabouts are the benches going, is it in that copse you told us all about?
Stigmorgan
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It's definitely doing my mental health the world of good, I absolutely love building stuff.
Not in the copse, that's at the back of the field (can just about be seen in the pic below) and needs a lot more work on the ground before we look at things like benches, they will be going under a shade sail behind the building I'm working next to the red arrow is pointing at one of the posts for the shade sail.
Stigmorgan
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Pretty happy with what I've achieved over 2 days even though I've probably completed 3 days work hours in 2 days, all 5 benches are now ready for assembly, each mortice cut to fit each leg specifically, I think I've managed to combine planing/routing the edges and sanding by buying a box of 20 80grit flap discs for my grinder, hopefully they will clean everything up enough. First job tomorrow will be connecting everything together then sanding followed by a coat of black jack to 600mm of the legs that will be concreted in, I underestimated just how heavy these will be so have some help coming to lift them in place on Friday.
If this was for anything other than school I would probably take time to plug the screw holes but as I'm short on time I will probably use sawdust and glue before sanding.
If this was for anything other than school I would probably take time to plug the screw holes but as I'm short on time I will probably use sawdust and glue before sanding.
Stigmorgan
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Spent this morning gluing and screwing everything together, as they were upside down I decided to screw from beneath to avoid unsightly holes in the top, especially as I plan to flap discs sand them, just the glue and screw took longer than I thought it would but they are now all as solid as they can be now, had a tidy up and put away all tools that were no longer needed and brought out the grinder and flapdiscs, gont one done and that took almost an hour 
I've left it rustic with an uneven surface and I love it, didn't bother with the part that will be in the ground, tomorrow I will sand the other 4 then as my hot air gun arrived today I will also coat the legs with bitumen and heat it up a bit to make sure it soaks in, especially the end grain. Some of the feet have pretty deep cracks, should I worry about water getting in and sitting in there? Also, would you put a finish on them or leave them bare?
I've left it rustic with an uneven surface and I love it, didn't bother with the part that will be in the ground, tomorrow I will sand the other 4 then as my hot air gun arrived today I will also coat the legs with bitumen and heat it up a bit to make sure it soaks in, especially the end grain. Some of the feet have pretty deep cracks, should I worry about water getting in and sitting in there? Also, would you put a finish on them or leave them bare?
