Thwarts and ledgers
This week's temperatures have made it difficult to spend much time in the shop. Well, that and the Seahawks parade, for which I took the day off. Yesterday I glued in the thwart ledgers, which took two hours or so of fiddling, measuring, remeasuring, gluing, clamping, and double-checking. The glue-ups worked out well enough... one had slid slightly out of alignment, but I had left them square, to plane subsequently, reasoning that this would afford good opportunity to make any fine adjustments that might be necessary. It did. I resolved to cut, fit, and sand the thwarts so as to be able to bring them home to varnish while I continue to work on the interior. Le Tonkinois, the varnish I use and love, has such low solvent content that you can varnish in the house without much in the way of noxious odors. This I will do with a number of parts. The workship is no fit place to varnishing. I got the thwarts done, including rounding over t...