{"id":907,"date":"2014-04-16T20:51:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T04:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/?p=907"},"modified":"2014-04-16T20:51:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T04:51:30","slug":"glue-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/glue-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Glue up"},"content":{"rendered":"

New bench is coming together!<\/p>\n

I’m using a laminate \/ mortise and tenon construction method using baltic birch glued up to create the legs and stretchers. The stretchers (tenons) are comprised of 3 strips of 3\/4\u00a0birch glued (and clamped). The legs are 5 strips of 3\/4 birch glued with the mortise created with the gap (last set in the image below).<\/p>\n

Everything is ripped wide at 3 9\/16 and after gluing I’ll clean up the edges back down to a final width of 3 1\/2. The bench top is another piece of 3\/4 birch and a piece of 3\/4 MDF sandwiched (and screwed) together. I’m planing to drill\u00a0holes for bench dogs<\/a>\u00a0and add a proper cabinetry clamp… maybe a Jorgensen. We’ll see.<\/p>\n

It’s really hard to build a bench without a bench (thus all the stuff across the tablesaw, router table, sawhorses, etc.).<\/p>\n

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If only I were just a simple cabinetmaker<\/a>. \u00a0Maybe if I had been\u00a0born 200 years ago.<\/p>\n

Although he made a living of his craft, Krenov referred to his attitude towards his work as that of an amateur, feeling that the competitive attitude of a professional causes one to compromise one’s values as a\u00a0<\/span>craftsman<\/a>. He avoided calling the conception and creation of a piece as “<\/span>design<\/a>,” preferring a more inclusive term “composing.” Composing, explained Krenov, is reacting to the wood, a continual re-evaluation and improvisation open to wherever the wood takes the composer.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New bench is coming together! I’m using a laminate \/ mortise and tenon construction method using baltic birch glued up to create the legs and stretchers. The stretchers (tenons) are comprised of 3 strips of 3\/4\u00a0birch glued (and clamped). The legs are 5 strips of 3\/4 birch glued with the mortise created with the gap […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sartor-resartus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}