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18th June 2007, 10:28 PM #1Member
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Japanese 'workbench'
Hi all,
I guess this is more directed toward Soatoz.
I'm interested in your workplace as much as your tools. I have Toshio Odate's book but would love to hear from you regarding how you actually do things.
At the moment my 'bench' is a 8"x6"x6' hunk of hardwood and two 8"x6"x18" chocks. To be honest it's not a bad way to work. I can use the plank on the two chocks when chiseling, drop one of the chocks when ripping (or cutting dovetails). Sounds primitive but it's actually pretty effective.
But I think it's time to upgrade as the planks cupped. I'm thinking of replacing it with a laminated plank or an old hunk of iron bark if I can find it. (The old one was too green).
Soatoz, is it possible to reply with a run down with how you operate? ie what you use when ripping boards, planing boards, chiseling mortices etc? Not the tools, but your work area.
I for one am pretty chuffed to have someone with your knowledge of japanese woodworking to be able to ask questions.
thanks,
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Mark
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28th June 2007, 07:53 PM #2Senior Member
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Hi Mark,
Sorry it's taken me so long....
I guess this is more directed toward Soatoz.
I'm interested in your workplace as much as your tools. I have Toshio Odate's book but would love to hear from you regarding how you actually do things.
At the moment my 'bench' is a 8"x6"x6' hunk of hardwood and two 8"x6"x18" chocks. To be honest it's not a bad way to work. I can use the plank on the two chocks when chiseling, drop one of the chocks when ripping (or cutting dovetails). Sounds primitive but it's actually pretty effective.
But I think it's time to upgrade as the planks cupped. I'm thinking of replacing it with a laminated plank or an old hunk of iron bark if I can find it. (The old one was too green).
Soatoz, is it possible to reply with a run down with how you operate? ie what you use when ripping boards, planing boards, chiseling mortices etc? Not the tools, but your work area.
I for one am pretty chuffed to have someone with your knowledge of japanese woodworking to be able to ask questions.
I use a metal vice to clamp the wood when chiseling and stuff. Ripping the boards are done on plastic milk cartons. The only decent thing I have is for planing, but the materials used for the bench is construction grade (ie low) timbers I found in the dump.... But looks (looked? it's all dirty now) good though. You can have a glimps of my work area in this page. It shows my vice and almighty milk carton as well.
http://www.geocities.com/soatoz/nomi...le_Making.html
You can see my former workshop here (super small balcony). Good thing this apartment only had surfers living. They didn't mind all the noise I made! Cool neighbors.
http://www.geocities.com/soatoz/kann...net_Maker.html
Schtoo-kun, are you possibly reading this??? Could you help me out with this? I'm sure you have much better workshop than mine (mine isn't even a workshop...) and somewhat Japanese?
Sorry I'm no use regarding this topic!
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30th June 2007, 03:02 PM #3Senior Member
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You can see my work area here, although it probably won't help you too much....
http://www.geocities.com/soatoz/nomi...le_Making.html
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2nd July 2007, 02:52 PM #4Member
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Thanks So,
Looks a lot like mine. But mines nowhere near as fancy
I'm actually making a 'bench' at the moment. Using the old bench (a hardwood sleeper!) to make it. I'm actually impressed with how much I can do with just a plank.
Not as impressed as I'm going to be when I get the Masanari and small saw set
The only thing that doesn't feel comfortable is planing (like you said).
cheers,
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Mark
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17th July 2007, 04:52 AM #5Intermediate Member
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Hi Soatoz,
I was wondering: on your planing board, you have a gap between the two parts of the planing stop. Is there a reason for making the planing stop in two parts, instead of making one long planing stop all the way across?
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17th July 2007, 05:00 PM #6
Neither am I!
My workshop/shed resembles a Japanese workshop in no way, shape or form except the labels on the power tools, some of the hand tools (but not too many) and where it is.
Other than that, I feel pretty confident that my shed is bigger than 90% of the guys on this forum, has hardwood floors and a 6' x 3' main workbench with a large vise, homemade though.
It's like steeping out of Japan and into a typical western shed.
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