Travel Tool Chest & Workbench Build Process

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Progress has been slow as a result of the heat, but I did manage a little bit of workshop time first thing this morning. I finished off planing one side of each of the planks. I decided to use a wooden jack plane for a change, partly because it's a lot lighter than my Axminster #5 and every little helps in this heat!

I then planed the edges square and fed the two planks through the bandsaw to reduce them to a bit over 20 mm thickness. As it was getting very hot already, I decided that rather than planing them to thickness, I'd just glue them together and deal with them once the weather's a bit more civilised:

It'll be a first for me trying to evenly thickness a board that wide (especially since I really need it to be good and flat to work as a shooting board base).

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