| Project by RustySpur | posted 268 days ago | 2933 views | 10 times favorited | 6 comments |  |
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I finally finished my first real workbench. After months of agonizing over design, cost, and effort, I settled on John White’s New Fangled Workbench design (FWW, 1999). I am super impressed with the features and ease of use. I used 2×12 SYP from HD and ripped everything to width. I was a little too ambitious during the first few days and hand planed all 6 sides of every piece I cut. That worked well for the legs, but I got tired and eventually realized that 1) you won’t see most of the pieces and 2) that’s a lot of work for a tool that’s gonna get banged up. So, I then decided to only plane the visible sides. I waited to smooth out the top until everything was assembled. I used 1/2 pipe and haven’t had any issues with lack of strength or bowing.
Took me about 2 weekends and a few nights to assemble the bench. I spent the last weekend applying 2 coats of boiled linseed oil to the entire piece and added a 3rd coat to the top surface. My wife didn’t care for the fumes in the garage, but a few hours with fans and an open door and all’s well.
I failed to take a lot of ‘intermediate’ pictures, so all you get is the final version.
-- russ from virginia - garage shop weekend warrior
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whitebeast88
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#1 posted 268 days ago
nice job a great looking bench.i love the design with the pipe clamps
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choppertoo
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#2 posted 268 days ago
I haven’t seen that before, thanks for sharing. That looks like a very versitile bench. Great job!
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blackcherry
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#3 posted 268 days ago
Nice work on your bench which by the way I had for a few years, I love the floating front rail and front clamping system which I used every day in the shop. Over all I think it quite the system to have very versatile. I landed up giving it to a family member to build a heavier more traditional bench, I wish that I could of kept two bench but space restraints in my shop wouldn’t allow. Your really going to like this bench it a better than average bench system good luck ….BC
ChrisK
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#4 posted 267 days ago
Nice build. i want to build one to replace an older much less functional one. Thanks for the post.
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#5 posted 267 days ago
Nice,.
...and I have always loved the smell of linseed oil. It smells like food to me,. wish I could cook with it! :-)
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#6 posted 259 days ago
O-kay, did a Google search, found the Video and the plans, and after year of contemplating, I believe this is the basis for my workbench!
Very useful bench :-)
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