Workbench #5: Aprons, Vises, and Chisels in Fingers (Sorry, no pics of the injury)
Ok, I am back with another installment from my workbench experience. Today’s post talks about putting on the aprons and endcaps, the vises, and the reasons why its not so great to shove a chisel into your finger… I didn’t take as many pictures of the endcaps and the aprons as I did other parts of the project, but I can describe the process a little to make up for it. The front and back aprons were attached with a spline made from some scrap douglas fir from some other project that I had lying around. I put my slot cutting bit into my router and set the router for the deepest depth that I could and then routed a slot down the front and back of the bench. I then rep...




















