bench top gloat??
Steven McKinley from Calgary
>I'm not sure if this is a gloat or not. I've been doing some casual labour for a counter top company that is moving. They were throwing out some 1.5" butcher block counter top and I snagged it. Unfortunately none of the pieces are long enough to provide me with a solid one piece work bench top. What I was thinking of doing was joining the pieces with either biscuits or dowels, and then adhering it to two pieces of 3/4" plywood. That would give me 3 inch top. I think mounting it to the plywood would take care of any rigidity problems. Two of the pieces could be joined end to end, and then I would have to cut one of the "slabs" into three pieces, glue them up to make a piece wide enough to match the other two and then glue that one on to the other two in order to get a bench top as long as I want. However, one of the guys at the counter top factory said I may still get some movement even though the joining would be end to end with the long grain (does that make sense??) What do you think, will movement be minimal enough to make this a worthwhile effort?
Steven,
