Mark ten Haaf
02-10-2011, 9:30 PM
I'm designing a workbench, and I have thoughts of using hickory for the beefy rails. Well, I've never worked with hickory before, and I understand from my research that it can be a !@#$% to glue up properly. I was originally going to build the rails out of hard maple, but I can get hickory for ridiculously cheap. The problem is that I'll have to do quite a bit of face and edge gluing (I hear this is especially tricky in the wintertime). Am I worried for nothing? Also, will my cost savings be cancelled out by the planer knives I'm going to burn through?