I managed to get all the joinery and tuning done on Friday, making this project complete. Here is the complete “Breakdown Bench”.
![Breakdown Bench](https://ee0r.com/proj/images/bench-breakdown.jpg)
It’s pretty solid, given how tight some of the joinery came out. It still comes apart, though. I need to sand some of these pieces a bit, and maybe add some sealer, but otherwise, it’s done.
![Pieces of the breakdown bench.](https://ee0r.com/proj/images/bench-breakdown-pieces.jpg)
I wound up cutting the mortises on the benchtop pieces by drilling through and then cutting with a jig saw. This gave me the basic through- holes, then I tuned them with a rasp and a file.