159 days ago
by Eric |
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So I had my order all lined up: 123 board feet of kapur wood. But I couldn’t pull the trigger. Why? The price. The total cost of the lumber needed for my workbench would have been $212. Maybe that’s not a lot; I don’t know what lumber costs are like where you are. But it’s about $50 more than I expected to have to pay, and in our world, $50 is a lot of money.
While I was there, I did find out that they have four different kinds of wood: nyatoh, selangan batu, kapur ...
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168 days ago
by Red Rocks School of Fine Woodworking |
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This workbench has had an interesting history.
The Hickory was donated by National Lumber Supply. This Hickory makes up the majority of the top. The trestle (base) is constructed in Ash. The height was set for shorter students, actually using a student in one of the fundamentals classes as a model for the bench height. The height is around 30” – so considerably shorter than our normal benches.
The bench trestle got it’s start as a demo for the Fall 09 workbench class. The joi...
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175 days ago
by PurpLev |
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So after giving some food for though, and going back and forth between 2 designs – my original one:
and the Roubo Bench (the one I was drooling over was Jameel’s bench from handcrafted vises), I decided to take the things that would work best for me today, based on materials that I have available today – while keeping an open door for future changes.
here are the features I am going for:
1. wagon vise – tail vise abilities, without the sagging, and without...
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178 days ago
by Eric |
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There was (and still is) a book called The Inner Game of Tennis, and while I never read it, I remember one of the claims the book made. The claim was that the more one thought about playing tennis (and playing it well), the better one played tennis in real life. The parallels have been drawn in many other sports and indeed, in many other facets of life. So why not woodworking? I am convinced that my workbench will be far better, and the construction far smoother, because of my ruminations. Wi...
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183 days ago
by PurpLev |
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So after we've got the bowling alleys. now it’s time to put them to to use (not really ‘now now’ but … you know what I mean).
So, I really would like to make this one a keeper, and not have to redo this bench unless I really fancy it in the future with lots of extra time on my hands and nothing better to do with it (hence – not likely it’ll happen), and in order to do that, I figured I’ll make this one as close as I can to the ‘ultimate’...
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189 days ago
by RichClark |
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I cant Plane a Dang thing on my “assembly” table to slippy and no place to clamp anything.
So I got MAD (as I usually do) and Used this as an excuse to build a Workbench!
I did allot of reading and research and I bought this wonderful book – Its By Christopher Schwarz and called “Workbenches from Design & Theory to Construction and use”
I Picked the “Last” one in the Construction and use part but Modified it a bit for what I wanted it to ...
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205 days ago
by Eric |
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If you’ve been following my blog you know that we’re moving into a new (to us) house this month, and I’m planning to build a Roubo workbench to christen my new workshop space. Well I’m out of town for a few days and have a little evening free time, so I thought I’d jot down my thoughts as to what kind of Roubo I’d like to build (yes, there are many styles of Roubo!):
I plan to have the legs tenoned straight through the top, including the dovetailed out...
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205 days ago
by kenn |
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It is time to assemble the base for this massive bench. I gathered some air dried oak that I had left over from wedge stock when making windsor chairs and my drawknife.
I carefully took the oak down to 5/16” thick since that was the size of holes I chose to drill to hold this all together.
At first, I made the pegs square and cut them to length. Then I wised up and realized that if I carefully split that baby, I could save myself some effort and get 2 sets of pegs from one piece...
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209 days ago
by kenn |
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Well its time for me to get all of the mortise and tenons ready for the base. First I had a few holes that I wanted to drill in the legs for hold downs ( actually for holding up). My drill press wouldn’t go all of the way through the legs so I finished the holes with a bit brace and a 3/4” auger bit checking for when the point came through. Then I flipped the leg and finished them.
I wanted to get my strecher length right on, so I took my measurement right off the legs.
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222 days ago
by ustompsteve |
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I cut the boards for the base to length and stickered them for drying. I used 2×12 SYP for this so that I can have the legs end up 5” thick.
Based on a recommendation I have been getting my joists at 84 Lumber. The are Grade 1 whereas the BORG carries Grade 2. The 84 lumber stuff is way clearer and I think it is about the same price.
Now I wait…
—steve
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