Stringing along…
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Finally back in the shed after a few weeks of long work days, and it’s time to try to get the stringing finished.
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First up, prepping some material, cutting the strings and planing the edges reasonably straight, then thicknessing them with the scraper tool which I’ve tweaked slightly.
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Still needs a lot more tweaking though, it’s still rather rough.
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Straight lines first, then on to heat-bending the stringing for the curves…
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And after letting the glue set a bit, out with the chisel and lop off the excess and take the stringing down to a few thou over the surface (the final smoothing pass will take everything to the same plane, but I’ll hold off on that until the epoxy and everything else is done).
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There’s a bit of inlay banding for the start/finish line on the racetrack, and then there’s a large blue epoxy sea for the Titanic to sink on, and maybe some other bits and pieces if I can think of any.
Then time to smooth the surface, and then on to do decoration on the sides and other shelves, run the LED lighting and then I can do final assembly and installation.
Mark,
My hat is off to you. About this time in the build I would have pushed the whole mess to floor and had a whisky. Yours looks great.
Good luck with the Cherry, beautiful wood and reasonably easy to work but can get “splotchy” with finish.
BTW, love your bench, it looks like a bench should.
ken