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Fri Jan 20
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So here is my dilemma, well it shouldn’t be too much of a dilemma considering a few things. But as always, my brain tries to tell me I can get away with things that I know I can’t.

In this case it’s using the trees pictured above for legs on my workbench. My brain says “Dude, you have the tools to make this work. You have a nice felling axe, a broad axe and an adze, make those trees your bitch and turn them into legs!” My experience tells me that I have to wait for the moisture content to get to an acceptable level or the legs will go haywire and cause everything to slowly fall apart over time.

Time. That is what I have a problem with here. I want what I want and I want it now. But I have to wait. I started with a plan to use this crummy white pine lumber from a home center and I need to stick with that plan regardless of what my brain tries to talk me into.

If I could find some seasoned Walnut then I could use that. But cost is a factor here, I have all the wood I need to complete the bench sans fuck up. But I really want to make some beams with my new toys…..

Maybe I’ll just fell a few more trees this weekend and work out a pulley system for getting them up the hill from the holler and into the back yard. Quietly, so the wife doesn’t freak out when the backyard becomes a makeshift lumberyard.

Another bit of progress on the Roubo, I have finished truing the first side of the top. Now onto the other side. I want to have two really flat surfaces when I start to cut the mortises. But that’s a way down the road, first i need to glue up some legs and cut tenons, which comes after I flatten the other side of the top and mount the tail vise and wooden chop.

Patience.

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