Prototype wooden base number one happened last weekend… I say ‘Prototype’ as I stuffed up a cut, put it in the wrong spot and left the base having to be cut upside down, still, good experience! The glue up worked great, the clamps were fine, the process without an electric planer was totally fine.

I used a couple of my old Stanley Tools hand planes, and my Bosh orbital sander and brought the piece back to flat, well, flat enough for the prototype…

It taught me that cutting out the timber that I needed to remove to sit the drip-tray in, was a long old job without the dado set on my table saw, but it also taught me that maybe I should have whipped up a router sled type jig - which I might for next time…

Anyway, so you don’t fall asleep from boredom, here are a few photos of the weekend’s progress (if you don’t progress, but you get stuff done, is it still called progress?)