Laurie Brown
06-03-2009, 2:05 PM
I am going to be making a long work bench along the same pattern as Norm's miter station. I have the show recorded and have watched it over and over and over but I can't find the answer to this question.
In the show, he uses plywood panels that are attached to each other using plywood cleats. Fine and dandy, but how do you attach these cleats where the total length is longer than the length of your cleat stock? I'm going to be building one of these 17' long, and I'm not sure how to extend my cleats that far. If I butt them end to end, that only leaves me 3/8" on the end of each cleat to screw into the plywood, which doesn't seem like much to me. If I rabbet both sides of the panel, that still is only about 1/4" on each rabbet with 1/4" in the middle, not much. Norm doesn't go into this on the episode, even though it's plain his bench is over 8' in length, probably over 10', too.
Anybody have the drawings or the answer to this question?
In the show, he uses plywood panels that are attached to each other using plywood cleats. Fine and dandy, but how do you attach these cleats where the total length is longer than the length of your cleat stock? I'm going to be building one of these 17' long, and I'm not sure how to extend my cleats that far. If I butt them end to end, that only leaves me 3/8" on the end of each cleat to screw into the plywood, which doesn't seem like much to me. If I rabbet both sides of the panel, that still is only about 1/4" on each rabbet with 1/4" in the middle, not much. Norm doesn't go into this on the episode, even though it's plain his bench is over 8' in length, probably over 10', too.
Anybody have the drawings or the answer to this question?