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Due to family matters I am currently in France away from my workshop and tools. Aside from swinging the odd axe and hatchet for the log burner, I have been a completely woodworking free zone for three weeks!!!  However ... with lots of free time to spare I have been doing a lot of internet reading and learning! The new 'buzzwords' floating around my head are Timber Frames & Green Oak, and Chainsaw Milling. Objects of desire now include such things as  Robert Sorby  1, 1.5 & 2 inch chisels and 2 & 3 inch Slicks. Gransfors Bruks Draw Knives and Froes, and Wetterlings    Axes . 'God Makes Work for Idle Hands'.... I'll be back home real soon and I have a lot of 'catching up' to do!

 A trip to the local timber yard over the weekend led me to find a cheap budget range of timber . Four 3m lengths of 2"x2" (50mm x 50mm) B grade Pine at a little over £1 per meter. I had to cut each 3m piece into 1m + 2m to fit it in the car.  While the timber is less than straight and quite knotty, its (hopefully) perfect for me to build my long awaited saw bench. I have been wanting a decent saw bench for ages to cut stock to rough length outside using my panel saws.  It will also serve to chop mortises on while sitting down and as a 'workshop stool'. Some online research led me to the following sources of information: here , here  and here  . I figured I would follow the same basic traditional design using slightly different joints and measurements with the entire thing made from 2"x2" timber. The whole project is basically an exercise in precision sawing practice, thank god for my new tenon saw . While the saw bench is a tool, I wanted to approach it al...