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I started building a Roman Low bench, so I'd have a place to do my wood working.
Like I don't have enough things to spend time and $$ on.
Here's the inspiration:
https://www.popularwoodworking.com/edit ... -high-low/
My version will be lighter because well, just because, along the lines of
Rex Kruger's low bench:
https://youtu.be/lPiMjv7lkqI?si=jjQnPZ84qTD20X5N
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Hovannes wrote: 16 Jan 2025, 12:56 I started building a Roman Low bench, so I'd have a place to do my wood working.
Like I don't have enough things to spend time and $$ on.
Here's the inspiration:
https://www.popularwoodworking.com/edit ... -high-low/
My version will be lighter because well, just because, along the lines of
Rex Kruger's low bench:
https://youtu.be/lPiMjv7lkqI?si=jjQnPZ84qTD20X5N
This guy gets it!
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The Roman Low bench is taking shape----I've commandeered the patio for the construction.
So far, the lumber has been cut, the leg pieces ripped with the Japanese saw and a square Hardy-hole been fashions for work holding accessories
I also drilled the clearance holes in the main battens .
Tomorrow, sometime between mass and catching a matinee of Gladiator 2, I'll clamp the thing together, drill the pilot holes and screw the main battens on.
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We took our weekly stroll through a local mall this afternoon, taking in a few sights, such as sumo wrestling. It's not often you run across sumo guys at the mall.
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sweetandsour wrote: 19 Jan 2025, 17:11 We took our weekly stroll through a local mall this afternoon, taking in a few sights, such as sumo wrestling. It's not often you run across sumo guys at the mall.

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Yep, not often at all. Did you see them wrestle or were they just showing off their butt floss?
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sweetandsour wrote: 19 Jan 2025, 17:11 We took our weekly stroll through a local mall this afternoon
I haven't been inside of a mall in over a decade, at least.
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JimVH wrote: 19 Jan 2025, 18:41
sweetandsour wrote: 19 Jan 2025, 17:11 We took our weekly stroll through a local mall this afternoon, taking in a few sights, such as sumo wrestling. It's not often you run across sumo guys at the mall.

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Yep, not often at all. Did you see them wrestle or were they just showing off their butt floss?
Ha! Yeah I think they had been doing some wrestling but they weren't when we passed by.
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Today I discovered that spade bits suffer terribly when they contact deck screws.
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Hovannes wrote: 20 Jan 2025, 10:45 Today I discovered that spade bits suffer terribly when they contact deck screws.
I could have told you that.


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