Amana Church Bench

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Stone stretchers are quick and easy for rock and some concrete products. But for lumber, a second, longer cut is my go-to.

Fantastic modelling here. Really tip-top.

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Sorry. I don’t understand.

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Oh - I was joking. When I was younger the older carpenters would say, “You need to cut that longer”, or, “Go get the stretcher”, when I’d make mistakes. I’m pretty sure that at one point I was sent into a store or lumbar yard to ask for a “board stretcher”.

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Ah… Got it. :smiley:

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Nowadays people just use modern cut lengtheners.

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I was confused too, thought you were using an End Grain Puller, I was once sent to get one of them along with a Peterson’s Imperial Long Weight.

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Sounds good. I’ll ask around at the hardware store next time I’m there.

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I always got ‘take this back and cut it longer’. I may even have pulled the "I cut it twice and it’s still too short’ line on an apprentice or two.

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“Measure once. Cut twice”.

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In old times in the countryside this ploy was used to keep children away when an animal was going to be slaughtered. They were sent to borrow a “pigtail straightener” from the neighbours who sent them further to the next neighbour and so on…until they came to someone who couldn’t keep a straight face.

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Are you trying to say “I cut it off twice and it’s still too short.”

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Do you have the Sketchup file for this bench available for purchase? I recently discovered the Amana Church Bench and have been designing it in Sketchup using Jameel Abraham’s plans through Fine Woodworking but am having issues with getting the angles nailed down in Sketchup.

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Sorry. I don’t sell or give away my SketchUp models.

As for the angles of the legs you might give Rake and Splay (from Sketchucation) a go. You can enter the rake ( 14° for the front legs) and splay (13°) and get some geometry to help you align the leg components.

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Completely understand. This helped me tremendously. Thank you!

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Good one to remember :wink:

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Why is that?

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Let keep it at, I need to learn that, and not just give my stuff away ^^

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