Anyone interested in 83 Pace Arrow Tear down and Rebuild?

Sorry to learn that you were ill, but on the other hand it makes me grateful that I did take the vaccine and was able to spend very little time out and about. My husband has lung cancer and not doing well. I need to be with him most of the time, so, I needed to be at home. If you pray, please include him in your prayers.

Well, that was a waste of a good month. Lol.

Not at all. That should have proven to be a very valuable experience with an increase in knowledge. It is in such times that I benefit; although I suffer. I now know how my fellowman feels while enduring the same experience in life and makes me more compassionate toward him.

SUFFERING IS A GREAT TEACHER.

Add some glue, assemble, and clamp until the glue cures, and we have 1/2 of a sawhorse.

Next was to finish the slot with a nice sharp chisel.

I set the depth of the bit at about 1/4" depth and made the cut. Next was to set the depth of cut an additional 1/4" deeper, and make the next cuts, and so on until the mortise was complete.

I did cut from both sides of the 2 x 3 as my bit was not long enough to go the whole way through.

I ended up with a slot that looked like this. As you can see on this one, I missed the mark a hair on the right side with one of my cuts.

I then marked where the mortise should be on the leg. This edge would tell me where to start routing.







This edge would tell me where to stop.

Well, that was a waste of a good month. Lol.

Little bit of an update tonight.

Back to working on the new sawhorses.

Here's how I cut the mortise for the tenons.

With my router jig and fence setup, I marked my fence, so I would know where the router bit was, in relation to the fence.

PastorCharlie wrote:
Laughter is like medicine.

Especially those that cause one to spew forth whatever liquid you are drinking at the time, all over your monitor! Lol....

Laughter is like medicine.

ro_sie wrote:
It was a good one, but being the ditz that I am, it went right over my head. Not hard to do when you are 5 ft tall. LOL Anyway, so glad to have you back. I want to see that MoHo completed, probably not as much as your wife tho!

Years ago I had a guy tell me ... "Everybody has their turn at looking like an idiot in someone else's eyes".

He was SO correct. That also holds true for feeling like an idiot in our own eyes.

Some days I feel like the bug, somedays I feel like the windshield! Lol.