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Thread: Just completed workbench.
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29th April 2010, 01:58 PM #1New Member
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Just completed workbench.
Hello all
This is the first project completed in my new workshop. The ideas and tips were mostly found on this forum.
I used pine for the legs and MDF for the top, this was to keep costs down. For the top structure, Jarrah was used for strength. Tassie oak was used for the shelf, due to its availibility.
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29th April 2010, 02:04 PM #2
Hey that looks really good.
How will you use the dogs, I don't see another vice there? Planing stops?
Cheers
Michael
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29th April 2010, 02:34 PM #3
Looks Good
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29th April 2010, 08:08 PM #4
I like it. That's an aussie built vice by the look of it. Good choice. You didn't want to make the back vice plate flush with the front of the bench?
I think the lights a good idea, I was chiselling out mortises yesty in dimmly lit light... not fun. (Then I got of the halogens and place got too hot... anyway...)My blog: ~ for the love of wood ~ - http://theloveofwood.blogspot.com/
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29th April 2010, 08:13 PM #5Senior Member
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It looks to good to use and scratch. Great job.
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30th April 2010, 12:18 AM #6SENIOR MEMBER
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Beautiful. Its almost a shame to use it as a workbench!
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30th April 2010, 03:37 PM #7New Member
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Hello again
Thanks for the comments. My wife thinks I made it to nice for a bench also, but thats o.k., I just figured that taking the time to varish it right would also give the surface the hardest protection.
The bench dogs are actually sitting in two 50mm bits of round Jarrah that are bonded to substructure. This is because I thought that the MDF would quickly allow the dogs to loosen up with use. Two more Jarrah inserts will go in when I buy a clamp to put in them. I just want to pick the best positions first.(The hole saw will be a throw away after cutting two more bits of Jarrah).
The vice is a Dawn quick release pivot jaw. Once I saw it in the store I just went wow and stopped looking at the more affordable ones. I think it will easily out live me. I knew I should be making it flush with the top but I was fixated with the fact this vice would be capable of holding large heavy weights and I needed it to be fixed with the longest bolts I could screw up into the substructure.
Regards.
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3rd May 2010, 08:10 PM #8Skwair2rownd
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Good looking bench there CDF!
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10th May 2010, 01:38 AM #9
very nice bench
where did that lamp come from?
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18th May 2010, 12:41 PM #10New Member
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27th May 2010, 05:18 PM #11Senior Member
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Hi CDF,
Don't suppose you've got any plans for that bench and very nice by the way.
Cheers Box
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27th May 2010, 09:34 PM #12Senior Member
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Very nice indeed. You should be proud.
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27th May 2010, 11:44 PM #13New Member
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Sorry the plan existed only in my head. I basicly built it all upside down starting with three 1800 by 600 by 14 mm sheets of MDF. This way I knew everything would be square and as the MDF becomes too damaged I can pop the top sheet out and replace with a new one.
Needless to say it's hard to build a work bench when you do not have one so a sheet of MDF that my bandsaw come in was my flat work surface.
The sides were 150mm as were the seven supports under the table. The supports are spaced to lock up against the legs (bolted) which sit flush up against the table top. The vice screws right up into them as well. I used coach screws driven through the side jarrah stringers into the supports and then attached a second piece of jarrah to both neaten up and increase the table width.(luckily I have a domino so the second piece lined up quickly).
I made the table height 90cm which it may be argued is a bit high but it turns out I like it. I also knew that I could shorten it rather than increase height. When I up-ended the table there was a slight wobble but a $3 self adhesive vinyl floor tile cut to size fixed that.
The bottom shelf as you can see is straight forward.
Hope this helps.
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