Mini Moravian Bench Build Process

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I was away last weekend (motorcycling around the north Cotswolds) and haven't had much oomph during the weekday evenings, but today I managed to get back out to the workshop for the afternoon and get on with the other leg frame.

I didn't take many photos; this was the only in-progress shot:

However, it proceeded much as the previous one did, with the shoulders and cheeks cut roughly with the Ryoba and then the shoulders chiselled and the cheeks router planed smooth. At the end of the afternoon I had the second frame assembled (but not glued):

They're far from finished, but that's still a big landmark. They need trimming to length (i.e. cutting the top and bottom off) and the mortices need widening at the outside so that the tenons in those little cross-bars can be wedged. For now though, they'll do and I'm going to work on the stretchers next.

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