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We've jointed, planed, marked the profiles, cut them out, and sanded them. Now for putting
it together. We'll start off with fitting out one stretcher
and leg. Pilot drill and counter sink. Set your screws
so that the tips are just protruding through the stretcher. It just ensures that you get
your pilot holes lined up right on target. Apply the glue
And then drive your screws home. There's no need to clamp it up as the screws
will hold it together while the glue is drying. Having cleaned off the squeeze out we'll clamp
the legs together. Because the legs create a roughly four inch
space between the stretchers we need to pack out the rare end of the stretchers before
we clamp them together in order to keep them square.
Checking for square. Looking good.
We'll clamp some stock to hold the leg assemblies in place while we fit the front seat brace.
That's the top pilot hole. Drive the screw home and repeat for the other
side. Now that the piece is lined up we can add
the countersink. And we'll just have the screw protrude slightly
to make refitting the piece easier once the glue's applied.
Now we'll clamp and square up the arm brackets ready for pilot drilling.
Now for the seat slats. We'll use a piece of scrap lumber for the
spacing here. We'll just put them in with one screw now,
because we'll have to remove them again later. We use the expanding clamp to square up the
seat base. To finish off we use the spacer, a seat slat,
then the lower seat back brace. We'll mark the position of the lower seat
back brace. Then we'll fit it on one screw.
Now to remove the rearmost three seat slats. Finally we'll set the arms on a single screw
ready to set the back angle. And that will leave us ready for the final
assembly