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  1. #1186
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    Staggeringly Awesome Groggy! I feel like a real slacker now.
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    wow Groggy, i've just spent the last 4 nights slowly reading through the posts in this thread and are inspired to make my own bench. I'm just trying to get my head around the logisitics and the weight of the top!

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    Quote Originally Posted by JT View Post
    wow Groggy, i've just spent the last 4 nights slowly reading through the posts in this thread and are inspired to make my own bench. I'm just trying to get my head around the logisitics and the weight of the top!
    I'm sure when you decide to make one you will do well. The task is 90% research and understanding what you are going to do with it, the other 10% is the build. The skills you pick up along the way with research and advice, reading the forums certainly helps. Regarding the top, the temporary support frame for the top that I made was a really good idea and let me use the frame as a bench, I was able to disassemble the temp frame without removing the top.

    Good luck with your bench, a WIP is a good way to help you think things through.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Groggy View Post
    I'm sure when you decide to make one you will do well. The task is 90% research and understanding what you are going to do with it, the other 10% is the build. The skills you pick up along the way with research and advice, reading the forums certainly helps. Regarding the top, the temporary support frame for the top that I made was a really good idea and let me use the frame as a bench, I was able to disassemble the temp frame without removing the top.

    Good luck with your bench, a WIP is a good way to help you think things through.
    I second that. My WIP has taught my loads about building a bench (as well as confuse me somewhat when everyone gives their much appreciated advice!). Not sure if I could have made one without this forum.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Groggy View Post
    I'm sure when you decide to make one you will do well. The task is 90% research and understanding what you are going to do with it, the other 10% is the build. The skills you pick up along the way with research and advice, reading the forums certainly helps. Regarding the top, the temporary support frame for the top that I made was a really good idea and let me use the frame as a bench, I was able to disassemble the temp frame without removing the top.

    Good luck with your bench, a WIP is a good way to help you think things through.
    Thank you, now to my research

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    Quote Originally Posted by JT View Post
    Thank you, now to my research
    JT

    I think Greg and others would agree that even the most complex bench is still pretty simple once you know how!

    I have read every workbench book at least a thousand times and now that I am well into bench build I have come to the realisation that these things are very primitive tools and the more you keep it simple the better off you are.

    Not sure about you but as a novice I have been intimidated by building a monster bench and to some degree I still am as the size of the timbers laying in my garage is sore on the eyes!

    As IanW has said to me many times.....stop fretting...its a workbench!! If you listen to Chris Swharz over and over he says.....don't over think things its a workbench.

    Launch in and get building!

    Milo

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    Thanks for the words of wisdom guys!

    In the meantime I've got an old kauri bench which I'm going to resurface in the meantime. Got a few projects around the house which will keep me busy in the immediate future.

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    Groggy

    Thank you for tabling ( oops ) the journey and congratulations on such a superb job. I was just checking out a few details and pondering about my own bench which is still locked in the fleshy tablets of the mind and I refererred to the very first post.

    Now I have not read every post in this thread , but I will , so I don't know if you have already mentioned that you have edited the very first post to include a menu. If you have please accept my apologies for the duplication, but if you have not forum members may be interested to know that you have incorporated a very detailed index of every aspect of this epic build.

    My hat off to you .

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    Paul
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bushmiller View Post
    Groggy

    Thank you for tabling ( oops ) the journey and congratulations on such a superb job. I was just checking out a few details and pondering about my own bench which is still locked in the fleshy tablets of the mind and I refererred to the very first post.

    Now I have not read every post in this thread , but I will , so I don't know if you have already mentioned that you have edited the very first post to include a menu. If you have please accept my apologies for the duplication, but if you have not forum members may be interested to know that you have incorporated a very detailed index of every aspect of this epic build.

    My hat off to you .

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    Paul
    Thanks Paul. The index probably helps me more than anyone else. I was asked a lot of questions via PM because people did not read the entire thread, so I went looking for a link. Since putting the index in to make my searches quicker the PMs have slowed to a trickle. Hope it helps!

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