Square bench dog holes - worth doing the ledge?

[AAvK]

Ahh... hickory over here is stiff hard and chippy... sometimes I buy the chips and smoke a corned beef or a chicken with it.

Do your springs flex good enough without breaking? I know our standard white oak would work perfectly.

[Stephen M]

The whole dog is cherry. Only because it was nice-looking scrap. I would think anything harder than pine would work acceptably.

The springyness (tension?) of the spring is a function of thickness of the slat. I just experimented to get what I felt worked well. I was happy with the results of my second try.

-Steve

[Andy Dingley]

So is hickory in England. We don't have any, it's imported from you.

It's stiff, but if you saw it thin it's springy enough. If I hadn't had a broken hammer shaft and a bandsaw to hand, I'd have used riven ash. (although our ash is much better than American ash)

[Australopithecus scobis]

I've heard that about English ash.

[AAvK]

Pissed?

[Prometheus]

I kind of envy you that, actually. My square ones can be a real PITA when the humidity changes. Not to mention all the useless work I could have saved myself! Aut inveniam viam aut faciam