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2006/02/11 - The fifth day of the project. |
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2006/02/04 - The fourth day of the project. |
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(Left to right) Jim, Dan, and Donna assembling a trestle. Wooden wedges are used. |
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Jason drilling a hole in a stretcher which will house a bench bolt. Bench bolts are used instead of traditio
nal joinery and wedges since they are easier to maintain - the benches will be used by other woodworking classes also. |
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Jason giving instruction on hole drilling for the bench bolts. |
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Jim driving a wedge home as Dan provides support. |
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Matt, Jason, and John attaching the legs to the bench top. |
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Rene checks the layout while John saws the tenon on a bench leg. |
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Bench by Philip, Bob, and Lee. Jim, Herman, and Dixon had also helped. |
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Jay is very happy with the results. |
2006/01/28 - The third day of the project. |
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John mortising. |
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Bob mortising. |
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Jason mortising. |
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Rene paring. Herman coming out of the supply room. |
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Donna. |
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John. |
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Gene chopping a mortise. |
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Bob working on layout. |
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Jay describing his small polishing plane. Sensei has owned this plane since the early 80's. He's planning to order a similar plane with Katsuburo blade by Tesshinsai Horaku and dai by the famous dai maker Inamoto-san. The blade will have "Daiku Dojo" written on it. Students who are interested in getting a "Daiku Dojo" plane should let Jay know as soon as possible. |
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Jay instructing Jim on how to efficiently chop a mortise. |
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Matthew and Dixon at the sharpening station. |
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Jay's collection of waterstones which he generously shares with the class. |
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There are quite a few nice natural stones in this lot which Jay had acquired from Aquastone. |
2006/01/21 - The second day of the project. |
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Lee checking squareness of bench leg. |
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Philip paring the tenon on a bench leg. |
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Herman cleaning up a mortise. |
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Matthew chopping a mortise. Jason in the foreground. |
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Donna chopping a mortise. |
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Jay at the grinder while Rene watches. Dan mortising and Wade sawing. |
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Jeff checking squareness of a through mortise. |
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Jim chopping a mortise. |
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John flattening a waterstone. |
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Dan chopping a mortise. |
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Everyone has a job to do. |
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Jason on a short break. |
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Barry preparing to crosscut the bench leg. |
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With the old workbenches removed, folks do their works on whatever furniture is available. Herman cuts mortises on a sawhorse. |
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Matthew is thinking, "Where's the mortiser?" |
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Philip checks the shoulder of a tenon. |
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Dixon crosscutting a bench leg. He's using a ryoba, which is a Japanese double-edge saw (one edge with rip teeth, the other with crosscut teeth). |
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Sensei Jay checks the edge of a plane blade as Rene looks on. |
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Sarah doing layout: 4 bu from the center line. Everything begins with the layout! |
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Barry crosscutting a bench leg from dimensioned stock. |
