The Outdoor Workbench

**IanW** · 10th December 2013, 07:45 AM

Originally Posted by artme

Probably drilled into you during grammar lessons. Now recalled subconsciously.

Subconscious be blowed, I still shudder at the thought of the wrath of my grade 7 teacher if we mixed up our declensions! Artme, if you went to school in Qld, you were getting close to the last cohort that were drilled in grammar in primary school. My youngest brother is 8 years behind me. Despite a tertiary education, the poor b*gg*r is functionally illiterate. Well, that's what I tell him.

I mourn the loss of precision in our language as words like 'alternate' and 'alternative' have completely lost any distinction, but after reading exam responses for years, I am resigned to a lost cause. When the Y generation are bereft of electronic assistance, it descends into near farce, at times. I used to get a good chuckle from a few of the more frequent mixups - 'illicit' and 'elicit' make some interesting juxtapositions.

The spalling chequer has much to answer for.....

Cheers

**artme** · 10th December 2013, 08:22 AM

Went to school in NSW Ian, but the same thing applied.
I remember in the first three years of high school there was a set of eight rules
that we had to recite and give examples of.
I could go on and on about this, but I won't Perhaps a thread elsewhere is appropriate.

**Big Shed** · 10th December 2013, 09:50 AM

In the not too distant future written communication will only consist of a series of meaningless acronyms without any punctuation or capitals, so why worry about it?

**old1955** · 17th December 2013, 03:24 PM

Great read Paul. Following with interest.

**DSEL74** · 17th December 2013, 04:05 PM

i 2 c dis thread goin off topik!

L8Rz…..

**artme** · 17th December 2013, 06:44 PM

Originally Posted by DSEL74

i 2 c dis thread goin off topik!

L8Rz…..

Only with my help!!!

**Sawdust Maker** · 17th December 2013, 10:45 PM

bnch wot bnch?

**pmcgee** · 19th December 2013, 07:49 PM

Funny you should ask ... even given the thread title ...

I had the three-plank tabletop in the kitchen/whatever sitting ontop of the current little round thing to suss out length & width etc.
I mustn't have taken any photos before it got the boot back outside.
I needs more width, and given the original had the jarrah on each side I'm planning to use one of the jarrah planks (holy side down) to edge it on each side.
I think that will need to branch off into a separate, meandering and often pointless thread.

But ... in order to work on that ... and December being a traditional cleaning-up time around here ... I am pulling the crap pine together into at least a workbench top ... and it might even get legs ... but let's not hold our breath.

I've been jointing two sides of each post/plank today ... ready to insult the big thicknesser with this stuff after that.

Some of it is treated-pine ... but I already have a somewhat poisonous personality ... so ...

Cheers,
Paul

Still be be cleaned up ...

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Two sides jointed ...

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**DSEL74** · 19th December 2013, 08:31 PM

You know what they say…..Good things come in small packages……….like arsenic!

**pmcgee** · 19th December 2013, 10:10 PM

All jointed on 2 sides.

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All the end-docking done by handsaw as penance for using the jointer.

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**pmcgee** · 19th December 2013, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by DSEL74

You know what they say…..Good things come in small packages……….like arsenic!

Yeah ... I eat apple-seeds too.

Funny thing ... all afternoon straightening out these pine posts + boards. Nothing.

Bandsawing sheoak logs with a mask on ... two days going "Ughrk. Spit. Spit. Cough. Ummm ... Yummy crushed-ant flavour"

Paul

**artme** · 19th December 2013, 11:41 PM

Originally Posted by pmcgee

Yeah ... I eat apple-seeds too.

Funny thing ... all afternoon straightening out these pine posts + boards. Nothing.

Bandsawing sheoak logs with a mask on ... two days going "Ughrk. Spit. Spit. Cough. Ummm ... Yummy crushed-ant flavour"

Paul

Yeah, doesn't that just P*&& you off!!

**pmcgee** · 21st December 2013, 12:41 AM

Cleaned up all round ...

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Thanks to ...

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Not sure what to do with the wider post.

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Thinking of cleaning up and using the tie-rods that were part of the original bench I picked up.
Probably hardwood planks front and back.
And the jarrah/karri I planed straight before for end-caps.

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**Sawdust Maker** · 21st December 2013, 07:23 PM

love that thicky

**pmcgee** · 21st December 2013, 11:02 PM

I only had a 1L container of auqadhere (interior) so went to the green shed this afternoon to look for exterior glue.

They had a 4L of exterior aquadhere there for $58 ... and a 4L of a no-name brand of PVA for $17.

So I decided to just give the underdog a go and see what happens.

It'll have the bolts also, so it'll be interesting.

Paul

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