Uploaded April 2017 | Updated September 2026, 23 minutes ago
Making a pair of hewing benches from a log that was was squared up on the ends in a recent video.
The basic process is to hew off the sides and then lay out the centerline split. I had a bit of trouble with the log rolling during scoring and hewing, but it didn't end up mattering. I then chased the line around the log several times to guide the split to run straight. I should have put more time into that process, as this short log had very twisted grain that wanted to run the split away from the line very quickly. I ended up having to hew much more surface away from the split faces to true them up.
Then it was just a matter of drilling three holes for the legs on each slab, and chopping out some quick legs from some dead black locust branches. I'm pretty pleased with how they came out.
Making a pair of hewing benches from a log that was was squared up on the ends in a recent video.
The basic process is to hew off the sides and then lay out the centerline split. I had a bit of trouble with the log rolling during scoring and hewing, but it didn't end up mattering. I then chased the line around the log several times to guide the split to run straight. I should have put more time into that process, as this short log had very twisted grain that wanted to run the split away from the line very quickly. I ended up having to hew much more surface away from the split faces to true them up.
Then it was just a matter of drilling three holes for the legs on each slab, and chopping out some quick legs from some dead black locust branches. I'm pretty pleased with how they came out.
