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    Talking Operation: Bench Watch (photos requested!)

    Tonight I walked into my workshop to find some dunderhead had left a great mess of shavings and wood dust on the workbench and strewn tools and planes all about!

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    It was me, of course.
    I was too lazy to clean up after last night's rebate and dado planing for a chisel holder I'm fashioning from ironbark and PNG rosewood.

    Before tidying it up enough to get back to work I thought I'd snap the piccy attached above and pondered a little about other member's workbenches and what state they are generally in. Better? Worse? Much worse?

    So, if you'll indulge me, post a pic of your bench in its 'natural state'. Not a polished glamour shot but an everyday snapshot. Call me a workshop voyeur...

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    *Planes in the above photo: Stanley No. 3 Type 10, Stanley No. 5 Type 11, Stanley No. 40, Stanley No. 289, Record No. 010, Record 077A, Stanley No. 140 (precariously close the edge! ), Stanley No. 71 router...

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    Ok, this actually is when it was first completed - so it was still glossy - but this is it's normal state if the project is finished. These days it looks kinda the same but the gloss is long gone, despite a number of oil applications since. For example, the last few days have been about thicknessing palings (as you saw) so the bench has palings on it tonight. Tomorrow they'll be back in their place in the lower shed, and the bench will be vacant again.




    In short, it is a temporary workspace, and at rest it is clear, ready for the next use.
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    Cripes it's bloody gorgeous!!!
    Thanks for the photo
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    P.S. I thought I said no glamour shots..?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dubrosa22 View Post
    P.S. I thought I said no glamour shots..?
    Cheers Vaughan. It's the only pic I have when there's nothing on it! I'll take an updated pic tomorrow....
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    Quote Originally Posted by FenceFurniture View Post
    Cheers Vaughan. It's the only pic I have when there's nothing on it! I'll take an updated pic tomorrow....
    I was only joking about the glamour shot stuff.
    But I'd definitely like to see it after a few years (?) of active service.
    When did you build it? It's a really beautiful bench.

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    I wouldn't really call that a great mess of shavings.

    This is not my bench but it does have something closer to a great pile of shavings?
    Workshopdust.jpg

    I have two benches and they are almost always completely covered with crap. I doubt you could even see the top of one of them

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    Quote Originally Posted by dubrosa22 View Post
    *Planes in the above photo: Stanley No. 3 Type 10, Stanley No. 5 Type 11, Stanley No. 40, Stanley No. 289, Record No. 010, Record 077A, Stanley No. 140 (precariously close the edge! ), Stanley No. 71 router...
    You missed the one thing I was most interested in, the pattern makers vise! Looks like a beauty, do you have any more pics?

    My bench is the top of my table saw at the moment. Hoping to get started on my bench build over the Easter break, just need to finish up dimensioning my stock.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    I wouldn't really call that a great mess of shavings.
    Yeah, I guess the majority of my shavings and dust were on the floor - not really in my photo.

    Your workshop sure has character BobL

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    Quote Originally Posted by bueller View Post
    You missed the one thing I was most interested in, the pattern makers vise! Looks like a beauty, do you have any more pics?
    It's a new version of the classic Emmert vise sold here
    https://www.highlandwoodworking.com/...rkingvise.aspx
    I was lucky enough to get mine new from a forum member.
    Here's an acrobatic shot after I installed it:
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    Great vise to sit at carving, shaping etc.

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    Thanks for that! I’ve been eyeing those for a while but I’m scared to get a quote on shipping [emoji28]

    I’ll hopefully be in the US later on this year so planning on buying up big and then sending a big box of stuff home, will likely get one then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bueller View Post
    Thanks for that! I’ve been eyeing those for a while but I’m scared to get a quote on shipping [emoji28]

    I’ll hopefully be in the US later on this year so planning on buying up big and then sending a big box of stuff home, will likely get one then.
    HNT Gordon are developing one.
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    I actually tidied up the bench a little yesterday. And as shown the table saw is just another bench.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dubrosa22 View Post
    Your workshop sure has character BobL
    Not my workshop but one from a deceased estate I was called into help value the contents of the shed and rooms inside the house which were his sanding and finishing room. Not a cracker of dust extraction anywhere. The fella, who's shed this was and lived alone, had died of lung cancer in his 60's. I have to say said fella was a chain smoker. If you look in the pic above at the "stool" under the belt sander you will see the top has been modified to be a large ash tray. Inside the house in each room there were also large ashtray containing piles of butts like little mountains. If the ciggies or dust didn't get him then there was always the chance of a fire!

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    Been cleaning out old mortises on these iroko door stiles and some frames also.
    Mainly the old tenon holes, but some other wee bits too like screw holes, and locks etc
    Timber Surfaced 4 Sides, marked out, but often chopping past lines to get into the good stuff.
    The elevated stock, small no.400 square and the longest stock of a fancy machinists bevel protractor really upped my precision
    on these long mortises, not so much here, but on some near 4" door stiles behind, preped for the next stage....

    Not so much a problem for you folks I expect
    But in Ireland its still cold, Its only getting feesable to do a glue up in the near future.
    I have assumed after much thought and work on this, that its a better idea to get the end grain marked and chopped out, and leave the
    pairing of the long grain in these mortises till afterwards, for better gluing, fresh paired long grain of the custom plugs which all will be getting.



    march 2018.JPGmarch 2018 2.JPG[EDIT] Its not clear what I was waffling on about, here is last weeks bench shot, regarding the machinists protractor and square. (note: I've switched to using the much longer protractor blade in the first picture)
    This Tesco gray chisel pictured I may need to work on , Its hollow in the middle... I might grind the heel a bit on the 400g diamond. as its better for chopping mortises when I do in the daytime, (handle is straight, not cranked)... but the steel isn't great either, so it might not be worth it.
    I'm not a fan of this particular Stanley chisel I've switched to, as the canted up handle (clearance canted for fingers underneath while paring flat) is not so good for chopping on, but it takes an edge better than the other, and the back is flat.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FenceFurniture View Post
    I'll take an updated pic tomorrow....
    So after a hard few days of palings being scraped all over it...

    IMG_5231.JPG .... IMG_5233.JPG

    I re-oiled it only recently but the palings have really dried it out and ground crud into the surface, so another sanding and oiling coming up.
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