Because the new Moravian bench is not meant to be portable I've wanted a shelf between the long stretchers. In fact I added ledgers to the stretchers during the build for that reason. Yesterday I found a few extra minutes to start the job. My first thought was to use some Home Depot finished Pine for the slats. Wrong Oak breath, ain't no way no how I'm paying that kind of money for spaghetti boards. Back to digging through the wood pile where I found a nice 4/4 Red Oak board that was just long enough with a few mm to spare. The Red Oak looks better anyway.
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I expect I'll add "stops" to the ends and attach the end slats to the ledgers along with a Danish Oil finish. Whatever I now have a "catchall" under the bench.
I didn't have much time in the shop yesterday. MsBubba had other plans for my time, mostly involving pulling wire for a new 110v. electrical outlet in the kitchen but I did find an unfinished (the 3/4" dowel wasn't glued) bench appliance while digging around looking for wood to make the slats. The appliance is very similar to one Jim K has posted. I've not a clue what it is called, maybe a birds mouth stop? Anyway, I've used this type of appliance often what's different about this one is the length. I'm guessing my thoughts were to make it longer to use in the end dog hole so the face vise would not get in the way when planing.
Whatever it works well and is a handy appliance.
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Happy New Year y'all,
ken