Workbench tops prt. 2

On March 15, 2009 · 0 Comments

Last week I promised I would provide an updated MC histogram, so Friday night a broke out the moisture meter and took some readings. I found it really interesting, that in only 6 days  some of the boards had shown significant changes in MC.

histogramdaysix

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The start of workbench tops

On March 9, 2009 · 0 Comments

Now that the steel bases for my work benches are welded together, I can start working on the wood tops. Yesterday my friend Stuart & I made a trip to Menards to pick up the wood I needed.  After about an hour of sorting through the lumber rack, we had picked out 14 decent 2″ x 12″ x 14′ Southern yellow pine boards.  After we got them back to my place, we cut them in half for stacking and stickering.  I thought 275 board feet of lumber would make a bigger pile, than it actually did.

2x12sypstacked & stickered

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