| This blog is written by TheGravedigger | 14 entries so far |
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A Workbench's Progress #12: Home Base at Last!
Well, it’s finally done. The workbench base is done and has been mated to the top. I ga...
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A Workbench's Progress #11: The End's in Sight!
Hooray! The final glue-up of all the pieces is finished, and boy am I tired! The last post le...
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A Workbench's Progress #10: The Mother of Invention
Sometimes you can stare at a problem with a project for days (or longer) before a solution comes ...
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A Workbench's Progress #9: Cutting Tenons the Old-Fashioned Way (sort of...)
Building this workbench has made me rethink a lot of things. Joinery on this scale is completely...
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Tool Reviews #1: Veritas Large Shoulder Plane
Every now and then you stumble upon a tool that makes you wonder how you ever got by without it. ...
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A Workbench's Progress #8: Glue-up's Finished
The easy part’s over—all of the base components have been glued up, trued up, and eve...
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A Workbench's Progress #7: The Base Begins
Well, the next phase of the workbench project is now under way. I went to a local lumber yard th...
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A Workbench's Progress #6: Base plan
As requested, here is my basic plan for the workbench base. This was my first (semi) success...
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A Workbench's Progress #5: Leveling the playing field
Now for the hard part – leveling the top. As I previously mentioned, there was considerabl...
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A Workbench's Progress #4: Squeeze play
After the holes were bored and the jaws were shaped, it was time for installation. Every vise ha...
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A Workbench's Progress #3: How much wood will $80 buy?
I decided at this point that I should install the front and end vises with their wooden jaws prio...
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A Workbench's Progress #2: How to use a half-gallon of glue on one project.
Now I needed some wood. Since low cost was a priority (the vise hardware was setting me back eno...
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A Workbench's Progress #1: In the Beginning
In the beginning were the catalogs, and in the catalogs were beautiful workbenches, and attached ...
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Welcome to my shop!
Hi All! Welcome to my blog and my shop. This is my first blog, so please bear with me. F...
Projects, ideas, & general musings as I juggle time between setting up shop
and building projects.
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