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This is turning into an amazingly versatile bench!

Damn that's pretty. You must get a real kick out of walking into the shed and seeing it, knowing you made it. If you don't, you've been too close to it for too long - stand back and take a fresh look...

Don't be too modest, I'm sure a lot of professional woodworkers would be proud to have produced your bench.

Thanks for sharing the journey Groggy, and I hope you got as much out of it as your...

What's with the towel? For anyone else I'd think it was to protect the bench, but I seem to remember some comments before about this being a workbench, so the odd bump or ding won't matter.
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Please tell me you didn't go through and tally up the number of posts by each person in this thread... :o

Philistine! Coach screws, please! :D

I'll have to echo Nick with this. This thread has been inspiring, and when I finally get around to building a wood bench I will be heavily using this thread for 'research' purposes. I've been...

Horizon? They're much closer than that!

Ok, 'twas a holiday today, so where's the update? ;)

Nope, sorry. Seen some nice mortices on an impressive scale, but you know about those... ;)

That's some nice work there Groggy. Shame you'll be covering it up.

I can empathise with that. Spent a while painting the floor of my shed today with my two beasts lying outside waiting for me to go outside and do something interesting. Great feeling, especially in...

Nice work, but such a lot of it needed!

Could the bolts have gone the other way? Seems like it would be less work. Drill 1" holes for the nuts in the bench from underneath, put a dado/channel say...

Well there's an offcut you don't want to catch with your foot!

Yeah you're right, we wouldn't want to risk Tassie rejoining the mainland.:no:

Seems kind of sacrilegous to cut big chunks out of your nice bench. Very neatly cut chunks, mind you, and for a very good reason, but still seems kind of wrong.

Wish you lived in Sydney so I could...

When the Groggy Bench Order goes in, put me down for one! :D
Think it might be a longer wait than for the plane blades though...:roll:

Relax, he already knows... :p

Nahh, once it's in its proper position I'm sure it will be a Goldilocks bench. Juuuust right! :D

This monument to woodworking solidity should be good for quite a while Groggy. If the top's 250kg,...

Ah, I'd forgotten the leg vise, that makes more sense. Good call. It would be very easy to make angled holes look like a mistake, but the level holes look good with the alternating number of holes.
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Must be starting to feel like it's really close! Having the frame done would be satisfying, but it would really start to feel like a bench when the top starts taking shape.

Possible newbie...

That bench will never work, it's got bits of metal sticking out all over the place! :duck:

It's coming together nicely Groggy. You'll look back at all the effort involved with huge satisfaction at...

:yes: sounds like a plan!

Last thing you want is to see the boards follow the clamps as you loosen them :o

How's the glueup now after another day Groggy? Was 28 (!) clamps enough to haul it into line?

Christos, I was at their Auburn office at about 3pm. If you were there, I was the one with the...

Ye gods. How many is that? Looks like 20 - 22. Can't see them all properly.

I priced some nice clamps at Carba-tec today. Quite a nasty shock considering how many I want.

Thanks guys, I might just go with the stack of treated pine (2x4, 3x4 & 4x4) I already have for the base then and use something else for the top. I don't want to be sanding TP, so I won't be using it...

Great thread Groggy, it's taken quite a while to work through it all. All your pics have really brought your bench to life. I'd hate to be around the first time it takes a ding! :oo:

I just found...