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Miss Bandit, our Boston Terrier Eddie gave us....just got home this morning from the Vet's....Had to have emergency Surgery....yesterday.....she is feeling a bit "loopy" from the meds...

Back legs for the Garden Bench are now ready for joinery....needed a few spots cleaned up..


There are 2 legs sitting there...goal was to get them both to match each other exactly....

Morning to ya!

Front leg blanks have been cut out..

The ones for the other front leg were already in the clamps...

Cut-offs from these...

Are to be glued up..and then shaped into seat supports for the ends of the Bench

All assemblies are now in the clamps...

need a place to stash these 2 back legs for a few days....

Seeing an Eye Surgeon the 2nd of June....cataracts in the left eye..
Second of 2 end frames are about done...

Frame #1....test run of the clamps...

And, frame #2...mortises are about 1" deep, BTW...

hauled 3 planks to the shop, this evening....need to make them into the rails to connect the frames...and chop the mortises for them...THEN I can see about a glue up of the 2 frames...


Too tired right now.....had to assemble the store-bought Planter Bench the Boss bought....has a trellis back..and now, my back hurts...

Chopping..

Sawing..

Fitting...

And one glue up...

Had to add a 3rd clamp..

19-1/4" wide, front to back..at both the seat, and down at the feet...
waiting on the glue..before 3 more mortises can be chopped..and then another frame gets glued up...
Stay tuned..

Boss wanted this assembled, and filled with dirt..

Trellis is metal.

Whew! I got some dirt, Bandit! Trying to dig out the retaining wall - more curb - and of course uncovered the grounding wire for my shop electric in the process :/

Hey..I even mowed the grass here, today!....or, should I say Hay Field?

And... chopped about 21 small mortises, to boot....

Last straw for today...I was on Laundry Detail, too.....

and about 6 on the crest rail...before the hands started to cramp too much...

A glue-up has happened, today...

From this dry fit, to..

This dry fit...to..

14 slats glued into place...this forms the back of the seat for the Garden Bench Project...
Stay tuned...

PIP time...

I even tested it out...

Me, after a little over an hour,,,IN the shop...

And...now sitting outside on the patio, waiting on a coat of varnish to dry..

Before it gets moved into the Gazebo...