Kiwibrucee
17th April 2005, 12:03 AM
Yea Gidday:)
Heres a couple of pics of my bench so far. Its a combination of the plans from Woodsmith No.19 and this plan from plans now with a few mod's to fit the timber I had on hand .
http://www.plansnow.com/wrkbenchsn.html
If anyone is interested I can probably email the plans if you PM me your email address.
I used the plansnow version for the joinery, which called for a set of vertias bench bolts(bolts and big cross dowels)and some steel pins to replace the more traditional mortice and tenons used in the woodsmith plans.
The reason for this is that I have scottish ancestors and was therefor too tight to go out and buy timber for the frame:D. However the timber I had (some sort of fir or pine from europe) was quite soft and after reading about the likelyhood of the joints working loose if softwood was used I decided the bolts were better as I could nip them up if things worked loose in the future.
The ends are Mdf panels set in dado's with false rails glued on for the same reason.
The top is made up of 3 sheets of 19mm MDF laminated together with a 6 x 2 brushbox apron around the edges. Its 900mm x 2400mm and weighs a ton (or somewhere close to that).
I drilled the dog holes on the front apron to use with both vises(Twinscrew tail vise comming in lee valley shipment)and the bottom holes line up horizontally with the shafts of the record vise to allow support of long boards.(See second Pic)
I drilled the dog holes in the top using a 75mm thick guide block clamped to the surface and a spade bit( forstner would be much better but didn't have any at the time)
Made the bench about a year ago and havn't quite got around to building the bank of drawers to go underneath yet.
Over all pretty happy with the result,maybe next time make the top layer one that just sits in so it can be replaced if needed, and use 1st grade MDF instead of seconds as there are a couple of spots on the top that arn't dead flat.
Total cost so far about $100 for timber and $150 for vise and draw bolts.
The vertias bench dogs and wonder dogs make it really versatile and you could probably get away without the tail vise but there was this great offer on shipping from lee Valley.... and I've already drilled the holes for the screws:D .
Have a good one
Kiwibrucee
Heres a couple of pics of my bench so far. Its a combination of the plans from Woodsmith No.19 and this plan from plans now with a few mod's to fit the timber I had on hand .
http://www.plansnow.com/wrkbenchsn.html
If anyone is interested I can probably email the plans if you PM me your email address.
I used the plansnow version for the joinery, which called for a set of vertias bench bolts(bolts and big cross dowels)and some steel pins to replace the more traditional mortice and tenons used in the woodsmith plans.
The reason for this is that I have scottish ancestors and was therefor too tight to go out and buy timber for the frame:D. However the timber I had (some sort of fir or pine from europe) was quite soft and after reading about the likelyhood of the joints working loose if softwood was used I decided the bolts were better as I could nip them up if things worked loose in the future.
The ends are Mdf panels set in dado's with false rails glued on for the same reason.
The top is made up of 3 sheets of 19mm MDF laminated together with a 6 x 2 brushbox apron around the edges. Its 900mm x 2400mm and weighs a ton (or somewhere close to that).
I drilled the dog holes on the front apron to use with both vises(Twinscrew tail vise comming in lee valley shipment)and the bottom holes line up horizontally with the shafts of the record vise to allow support of long boards.(See second Pic)
I drilled the dog holes in the top using a 75mm thick guide block clamped to the surface and a spade bit( forstner would be much better but didn't have any at the time)
Made the bench about a year ago and havn't quite got around to building the bank of drawers to go underneath yet.
Over all pretty happy with the result,maybe next time make the top layer one that just sits in so it can be replaced if needed, and use 1st grade MDF instead of seconds as there are a couple of spots on the top that arn't dead flat.
Total cost so far about $100 for timber and $150 for vise and draw bolts.
The vertias bench dogs and wonder dogs make it really versatile and you could probably get away without the tail vise but there was this great offer on shipping from lee Valley.... and I've already drilled the holes for the screws:D .
Have a good one
Kiwibrucee