Here is the original blog post over at Lumberjocks.com
If the fun part was the joinery, the miserable part was the assembly.
The bench has 22 sliding dovetails, two 12 inch half blind dovetails, and 8 through mortises that all have to be glued, lined up, and slid together all before any clamps could be applied.
This would have been a good time to have some long open time glue and a cool day. Instead I was using yellow PVA glue on one of hottest days we’ve had all summer. It was clear some of the glue was drying before I could get the clamps on. I did get it all together and clamped up and there was squeeze out on most of the joints so the glue must of still had some life when I clamped it up.
If I were more patient I probably could have done the glue in stages, the ends, seat, and shelves. Then come back later and put in the dividers.
