Well, this baby has already been put to use. It’s actually been in this condition for 2 weeks, but I hadn’t gotten around to snapping the pics.
It’s functionally done, although there are 4 small things I will be doing before calling it done:
1. Drill the speed-pin holes in the face-clamp bars (was planning to do it tonight, until I realized I don’t have a large enough bit for drilling metal).
2. Add a planing hook. That should take all of 15 minutes.
3. Cut a few appropriately sized blocks for clamp guards on both clamp setups.
4. Add another stretcher at the same height, so that I can throw a couple tool totes below (mainly planning to store my planes there). I have the stretcher already thicknessed and ripped to width, just need to cut to length, drill/cut the relief out and install it.
Finally, in the spring, I will plane/scrape/sand it down and apply 2 coats of BLO to it. Until then, I’ve only done a bit of nominal scraping to smooth the surface, as is obvious in this pic of the staggered cherry top:
Once I finish those, it goes from blog to project :-)
-b
11 comments so far
GaryK
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posted 671 days ago
Looks good to me. Great job!
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Karson
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posted 671 days ago
Great looking bench.
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Scott Bryan
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posted 670 days ago
That is a nice looking bench. I am glad to see some sawdust on the floor as well. A shop should look like it is being used.
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MsDebbieP
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posted 670 days ago
looking great!!
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Grant Davis
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posted 670 days ago
Ben, that is sweet looking.
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Mario
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posted 670 days ago
That is a very cool design.
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Grumpy
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posted 670 days ago
Nice and sturdy bench. Great job.
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EdC
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posted 669 days ago
I like the set up of the New Fangled Bench, I have been planning on building one myself. I like the use of the Cherry, nice touch
You’ll have to keep us posted on how you like working on the new bench.
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Lakey
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posted 585 days ago
Ben, how do you like using this bench?
—Lakey
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motthunter
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posted 585 days ago
really cool. I like the design.
-- making sawdust....
ben
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posted 584 days ago
Lakey,
So far, it’s been a pleasure to use. My biggest problem is keeping my junk off of it, but that has nothing to do with its design. Thus far I haven’t done enough hand work to really appraise its function, but I’ve liked it so far.
-b