Sounds like a great opportunity to buy some nice new tools and bill her for them.
Dear MIL,
I’m very flattered by this and would be happy to do this, but I have never done anything at this size before and so need to buy some tools just for this one job, it might therefore work out cheaper to...
Asking for a friend who isn’t on this forum, yeah I know!
does anyone have an assembly guide/wrench and can let me know the sizes for it?
They just bought a d4 and it didn’t come with this and whilst they can order a replacement part, it’ll take 6 weeks to arrive and so they’d like to use it...
Thanks for all the comments and support, cut down the board and have clamped it up. Will be off for a weeks holiday, but hope to get cracking when I get back.
Once last comment do people drill pilot holes for the nails? Sure I've seen Chris Schwarz mention it somewhere, and he suggested using...
Thanks all, especially to SteL whose thread it was. I doubt mine will be as detailed but the links to the same bench build, but by a different pair of hands is here.
So following on from SteL's thread on his English style workbench (HERE), I have decided to create my own thread, it probably won't be as detailed or as many pictures, but I will see what I can do. This will again follow Richard Maguire's The English Woodworker design (HERE).
I decided to make...
I'm just about to embark on building this exact same bench, and already have a few questions. Since I'm new to the forum I'm curious about etiquette. Can I just continue this thread with a second build or should I create my own?