Work on the bench is almost complete its piled up like an ikea flatpack until after xmas and the new year.

Merry Xmas to All and watch for some interesting new updates in the new year including

Finishing the work bench

Kalamazoo Guitar repair
Violin repair
J45/junk guitar build

Following the saying no news is good news my recent absence from the blog means good news in this instance. I have been a bit slow with the photos but I am reaching the end of this project I have all the major components ready for assembly but with Xmas looming it looks like the new year will see the birth of this behemoth work bench.

The work bench top is coming into its own now as I am using it to plane the stretchers this is no.2 just 2 more short ones to do and the final jointing and we should be 90% there.

The first leg goes in. Well goes in a bit then stops!

Well I have to walk the walk of shame and admit to another power tool. With things the way they are I couldn't knock out the mortices by hand and have purchased a router. I refuse to show the photos of such a machine.

Looks like I have mangled my deltoid. I might have to buy a router to finish the bench off I don't want to risk injuring my shoulder again in the next couple of weeks.

Unfortunately I have injured my shoulder probably by pounding on the chisel to make the mortice so construction has stopped hopefully not for too long. So I will leave you with Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings while I put my shoulder in a sling.