Mini Moravian Bench Build Process

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Posted 13th August 2025

This evening was the first time in a few days where the temperature has been (barely) low enough to do anything. It's far too hot to contemplate planing the top and outside edge of the top pieces, but I thought I'd have a go at shortening the stretchers.

I decided to err on the side of caution and move the round-over lines a bit further out. It'll be easy enough to shorten them later and it'll be a lot more difficult to extend them!

The shape was rough-sawn out with the cross-cut Dozuki:

I then grabbed my little home-made block plane (which is becoming one of my most often used planes) to round the end off:

Close up of a finished stretcher end:

All four stretcher ends have been rounded off now so that's another small job ticked off the list.

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