I left my wife to paint her potting shed, and then turned my attention to the benches etc. This isn't very exciting stuff, but shows that even in making a rough old bit of something out of 4x2s, some decent joinery will give you a massively strong structure.
Here is a dovetail on a rather large scale. The angle was chosen at random:
I re-made this saw a while back, and with an aggressive rip cut and largish teeth it is fine for long-grain work in pine:
Marking up the pin board is no different to marking up a box or drawer, albeit all the marks at this scale are made with a pencil, without a marking knife or gauge:
I made all three frames with a 15mm upstand of the horizontal member above the vertical, so that shrinkage would never be an issue:
I seem to have forgotten to take a photo of the M&T here, between the brace and the vertical:
Here's the other end, awaiting the fitting of the horizontal piece:
Glued up, then screwed to the wall. You'll note that the farthest on had a variation on the horizontal member, as the bench will be along 2 adjacent walls:
I cut and cleaned up a couple of scaffold boards, ran a saw blade down the joint, and fixed them in place (with relief cuts to the underside). If they shrink at all I'll simply unscrew them and squeeze them up a bit tighter: