Gday fellow shutins, what a time to be at home, eh? Particularly if you are renovating a 1962 Queenslander. Love the forum and come here regularly for ideas and inspiration for many of my projects, eg, this workbench (my first ever), came from here:

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I am after some advice, so will give back with some pics and will post updates, as I go.

When we bought the property 5 years ago, that area had a crude bench made from the floor bearers excess to the house, spotted gum I believe.

I've been saving them for a coffee table and now have the time to do them. So, after much planing of edges, my four boards approx 1.6m long were biscuited and joined using aquadhere, two days ago:

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I plan to use circular to bevel the under edge and then a convex router to round off the edges. The timber is very dense and heavy, with the piece weighing in at around 90kg.

Question one, I have some red oak of suitable thickness. Should I mortise and tenon the ends (breadboarding)? Indicative wood are the two pieces in foreground of the next picture...

Second, I have four silky oak legs from the table that used to serve the chief engineer at the Mossman sugar mill and plenty of stock hardwood for the stretchers and aprons:

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Given the legs are tapered, what advice could members give re getting that base laser level and sturdy?

Here is servery window (still WIP) which was made from red oak roof rafters from my house:

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And the old steps which led down to the ground level laundry live again:

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Here is deck (Pelawan on eucalypt bearers):

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With my thanks and best wishes, Christopher