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26th April 2012, 10:25 AM #1Woodswarf
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Done. Now to make something on it . . .
Brushbox - recycled from Princes Pier in Melbourne (which is still waiting for a new deck - hurry up Port of Melbourne!), BTW, over which I would have walked in 1971 as a new immigrant with my parents from Old Blighty, and some bits of Jarrah - all from TimberSearch in Woodend (just down the road). Thanks Peter.
I left the bolt holes in (well, worked around some), and some of the wavy shakes, and used (countersunk) coach bolts to hold it all together as a homage to the timber's original use. The scraper plane got a workout in the wavy interlocked grain.
I used (and riffed on) the Lie Nielsen finish formula they use on their benches: 1/3 each of varnish/linseed oil/white spirit, but cut the white spirit in half with tung oil. Nice and grippy, and brings out the Brush Box colour.
A friend calls it the Ikea bench, because it will come apart with a 5mm allen key (galv, bugle screws) and a 13mm socket. He's not using my machinery again. Ingrate.
However, it'll be easy to tighten up during the next drought.
Not a Roubo or a Frank Clausen (sp?), but it will do the job.
p.s. I wouldn't buy the CarbaTec tail vice screw again - the end nut where the handle goes through needed some substantial machining to get it flat to the front attachment plate so that it didn't bind and wobble (green bit in photos). Luckily, It was just a matter of drifting out a roll pin, and putting the two parts on a metal lathe for 5 minutes. OT, one or more of CarbaTec's tools Chinese iron castings are always in need of a fix on most tools they sell - that's 3 in 3 months I've had to flatten/Dremel/square to get the relevant subassembly to work correctly . it's tarting to put me off them. Yes, I know the "Record"(Irwin) face vice is now Chinese, but I checked the movement against my dad's Made in England Record from 1960-odd, and it seems to have the same tolerances (will they stay that way for as long, I wonder . . . ?)
Mark
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26th April 2012, 10:56 AM #2
Nice one!
I hope Ikea are suitably flattered to be mentioned in the vicinity of that.
Regards
ps May be your mate needs to go to Specksavers.Hugh
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26th April 2012, 11:22 AM #3.
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Looks really good - should be a very serviceable for many years.
I can't quite tell but one of the bolt heads on the front apron looks very close to the top of the bench - I would be a little worried about it with possible tool slippage etc.
To a lesser extent the same goes for the other recessed bolt heads on the bench. Have you though about covering those with something?
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26th April 2012, 12:47 PM #4GOLD MEMBER
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You should be pleased with that. A nice bench makes working a real delight.
Bob
"If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life."
- Vic Oliver
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26th April 2012, 02:00 PM #5The Russel Coyte of Woodworking
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Nice work! Love it when you take old, heavy wharf timber and turn it into a decent bench. Great work!
As I am finding out any bench is better than no bench!!!
Enjoy working on her!
Milo
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26th April 2012, 10:22 PM #6Woodswarf
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26th April 2012, 10:25 PM #7Woodswarf
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The one on the apron is a allen key bugle screw (replicated at 450 mm centres along both edges) that is countersunk about 10mm into the timber. Likewise the ones that hold the vice together. I did think about putting plugs into the holes, but then that defeats the purpose of being able to tighten everything up when it gets sloppy. The only exposed bolt heads on the working surface are the ones holding the face vice to the top and edge piece (countersunk flush with top). But point taken - I'll have to be scrupulous about putting scrap under cutting edges, unlike on my old 2 x 4 pine framing bench. Can't mark the finish
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26th April 2012, 10:28 PM #8
Great work on the bench.
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26th April 2012, 10:37 PM #9Intermediate Member
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Great looking bench well done
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26th April 2012, 10:44 PM #10Cliff.
If you find a post of mine that is missing a pic that you'd like to see, let me know & I'll see if I can find a copy.
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15th June 2012, 02:42 PM #11Intermediate Member
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nice looking work! question, with your detachable 'ikea' frame as I was thinking of doing the same as someday soonish I'll need to break it back down.
I was thinking of incorporating some kind of lap joint for the frame, but rather than gluing, simply bolting through the joint. That way the lap joint should absorb some of the lateral strains?
Do you think it would be worth the effort? How has yours been holding up?
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15th June 2012, 03:24 PM #12
Beautiful looking bench, good job!
Andy Mac
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16th June 2012, 01:59 PM #13New Member
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We must have been bench building at the same time. I bought your morticer specifically to cut square holes to countersink the screws in my bench ( I know you don't like plugging holes)
I posted pics of mine a week before yours
Great work - re-cycling is the way to go
Regards,
Brian
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16th June 2012, 03:10 PM #14Woodswarf
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@ ochaye Oh! Ok Hope it's going ok.
@ Robot - I put the top together conventionally glued with broomstick dowels, but all the base can be disassembled for transport if necessary. I just used offset 8mm coach bolts and allen key bugle-head screws of a couple of different lengths to hold it together.
@ everyone else: thanks for all the thumbs ups!
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16th June 2012, 04:33 PM #15SENIOR MEMBER
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A beautiful bench, mate. Thanks for pics.
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