Been a little while between scout camps, family vacations, and work. Finally found some time to get back to this thing.

Doug Fir is a splintery mess to work with. I wanted to ease all the corners on the outside of the bench, mostly to keep them from getting dinged up. Thought about a simple roundover, but remembered I had a beading bit from my last project that I liked, so figured I'd give it a go.





Liked the way it looked well enough that I decided to do the rails as well:





Figured I'd do a little epoxy testing on the back side of the benchtop. I normally use System 3 T-88. It's pretty durable and hard without being brittle when fully cured, but it takes a couple days for it to cure. Decided to try Quick Cure 15, which is more on the adhesive side then the fill side. But I liked the idea of a faster cure for multiple deep layers.







This stuff is not the worst thing I've ever smelled, but it is the most uniquely bad smelling product I have encountered. It is weird and bad in a way that challenges my mastery of the English language to describe it. The closest I can come is metaphor; it reeks like I imagine the intestinal track of a small marsupial that was hit by a truck and thrown to the side of the road to bake in the sun for approximately three days.
On the plus side, the smell did not linger after about an hour. We will see if it was worth the assault on my senses.

While the epoxy was curing, I did a dry fit of the legs and adjusted the mortises to be a little looser. Tension will be provided by the assembly wedges, and I need the rails to slide in and out without scraping off the finish when I am done.