As I explained in one of my previous video I have some old wood left over from a construction site And I decided to use it to build a workbench It's mainly spruce which is not the best wood for the task But being free it was the "perfect" choice to get me started in this journey to woodworking For the legs I found this square timber It's about 10x10cm First of all I'm flattening one of the sides and removing the twist To check for twist I use two sticks I have lying around as winding sticks I want the legs to be reasonably square so after choosing a reference surface I check for square using a machinist square I happen to have around The plan is to upgrade my workbench in case I'll be able to find some better wood So everything is as modular as possible Also, because one day I hope to move out from the garage I want to be able to disassemble the bench and move it myself by car Initially I was planning to hold everything together with joinery but, as you will see, I ended up gluing the left and right pair of legs together The whole assembly is less than 1x1meter anyway I mark the position for the mortise And start to prepare a 6x6cm timber to connect the legs At this point I realize that in fact I want this horizontal timber to be flush to the outside of the leg so I have to measure everything again Finally it's time to cut my first mortise And you can see I've made my first mistake already My reasoning was to have 1/3 of the width of the timber but as you can see the mortise ended up being a little larger than my chisel making the whole operation much more difficult Here I am trying to reach the corners that are left because the chisel and mortise size didn't match The best way to learn is by making mistakes, I suppose…
Next up is the tenon As you can see I don't have an adequate saw This is the folding saw I use for gardening It's super nice for pruning but it's not supposed to function as a rip-cut Anyway, being the only one I have it must suffice for now I didn't trust my skills neither my tools, so I tended to stay proud of the lines and I had to adjust the fit quite a lot almost… At least is a good fit One done, three to go.