| Project by oldreddog | posted 237 days ago | 1525 views | 5 times favorited | 12 comments |  |
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I built this bench from some old growth timber that was used to park a old Modal T on in a wooden floor garage about a half mile from my home.
The building was over a hundred years old and had thick doug fir floors.
I was able to salvage these boards.
These were power washed last year before I built my new shop.
They air dried in my wife’s garage before I stored them away until late this summer.
I studied all the current books out on work bench design and watched dozens of you tube videos.
Then I started building my bench, most benches were being built from new lumber and mine was a challenge to get straightened out with old lumber.
But It worked well I think.
The barn beam legs were from a old hay barn west of town they are old pine beams.
The top is doweled together, stretcher/ leg joints are with draw bore tenons.
The tool / dust collector on back is made from a left over 22 foot floor joist from my shop construction.
The old craftsman screw vise was totally rebuilt. the leg vise screw was purchased at Woodcraft.
The finnish is just Tung oil wiped on several times over a light stain to bring it all together.
I got a new Veritas wonder dog as a treat to my self and some Kreg dogs for now.
I have used this project as a from of therapy while i battle a rare disease.
looking forward to more therapy in my shop and breaking this bench in with some projects I have in mind.
-- oldreddog
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AJswoodshop
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#1 posted 237 days ago
Nice job on the bench!
-- If I can do it.....so can you! -AJswoodshop
fleetphoot
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#2 posted 237 days ago
That’s a nice job oldreddog. Looks pretty large. What are the dimensions?
Looking forward to seeing your projects made with it.
Kind Regards,
fleetfoot
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bluekingfisher
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#3 posted 237 days ago
Great to see new life for old timber. You have done a sterliong job on the bench, take care of it and it’ll last you your life time.
I’m guessing you have a preference for hand tool working…...or have you always had an inckling for building a traditional European style bench. Either way you have done yourself proud, you certainly earned the veritas dogs.
Good for you.
David
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Poisson
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#4 posted 237 days ago
It would be another theraphy when you work on this nice and functiong workbench.
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empeg9000
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#5 posted 237 days ago
Nice bench. I’m jealous!
Lee A. Jesberger
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#6 posted 237 days ago
Very nice bench.
Lee
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oldreddog
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#7 posted 237 days ago
Thanks all for the kind words, its a nice way to start the day.
ORD
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#8 posted 237 days ago
Beautiful work ORD!
steamfab
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#9 posted 236 days ago
Awesome work on it.
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#10 posted 236 days ago
I. Am. So. Jealous.
I’ve been wanting to build a bench out of recycled barn timber, but its a real hard thing to find where I live.
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Green_Hornut
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#11 posted 236 days ago
Great that you are recycling wood and re-purposing it. While everyone says it is a renewable resource you are never going to see lumber like that again in your lifetime. Good for you to go the extra mile and bring back some great old boards instead of going to the big box lumberyard and buy the junk they sell and making something totally forgettable.
HorizontalMike
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#12 posted 171 days ago
Very cool! Must have been fun to work with such a treasure of lumber. Well done.
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