Thread: What’s on the Bench.

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This is technically not on the bench, but finally just completed. It's the Paul Sellers rocking chair, the timber (new guinea rosewood) was delivered in the first lockdown in Melbourne, completed except for the seat in the second lockdown as I was waiting to have it professionally done.

The finish is many coats of shellac followed up with a furniture wax. The only screws involved are in the rockers and the corner frame/seat braces. Mostly hand tools although rough sizing was done with table saw and bandsaw. I am mostly happy with the result as its my first chair.

Got too love Rosewood

George

Originally Posted by gknight

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This is technically not on the bench, but finally just completed. It's the Paul Sellers rocking chair, the timber (new guinea rosewood) was delivered in the first lockdown in Melbourne, completed except for the seat in the second lockdown as I was waiting to have it professionally done.

The finish is many coats of shellac followed up with a furniture wax. The only screws involved are in the rockers and the corner frame/seat braces. Mostly hand tools although rough sizing was done with table saw and bandsaw. I am mostly happy with the result as its my first chair.

Got too love Rosewood

George

George,
That looks like a fantastic Rocking Chair,
An a great lockdown project, especially being your first chair.

Cheers Matt.

A quick little project due to lockdown, a monitor riser/ desk space saver.

My first attempt at splayed dovetails so I'm happy ist turned out OK.

The shelf is for the laptop and mouse so they tuck away at the end of the day like the keyboard in the picture.

If Rocking Chairs are included.

Last time I replied to this thread, a few lockdowns ago, I was working on completing my bench "on my bench" with the benchtop upside down.

Originally Posted by doug3030

right now the top of my bench is upside down, with all the components for the tailvise sitting on top (or should that technically be underneath) waiting for me to get all enthusiastic about cutting dogholes and half-blind dovetails.

Now, I have ANOTHER BENCH upside-down on my workbench. We have come a full circle.

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This is what it is going to be, with a couple of modifications of course.
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I really would not call it a workbench, but that is what the plan is labeled as. To me, it just does not have the mass to be considered as a serious workbench but I think it will be pretty good for some of the lighter tasks.

In my shed it will be used as an assembly table as well as infeed/outfeed support. It is electrically height adjustable from just over 70cm up to around 120cm so it will be low enough to use as infeed/outfeed on the thicknesser and tall enough to rest my elbows on while standing up. It will lift up to 100kg which should save my poor old back from some heavy lifting.

As you can tell from the attached plan link above it uses the Microjig Matchfit Dovetail Clamp System. It will be fitted with locking casters for mobility and stability.

Modifications I am making to the plan include making it narrower so it will fit through a standard door and some onboard storage. I am also making some extension wings for when I need a slightly larger assembly table.

Was the base a freebie, Doug, or did you have to (shudder) pay for it? Looks like it will be more than handy.

Originally Posted by aldav

Was the base a freebie, Doug, or did you have to (shudder) pay for it? Looks like it will be more than handy.

David, the desk frames with electric motors have been around for a long time, but have recently dropped in price dramatically.

Last year when Jools started working from home we got her a manual one ($200-ish) for her comfort because we didn't want to pay out around $1500 for an electric one that might only have been needed for a couple of months.

I bought that desk-frame (sold without a top) for $285 last month after finding out that they are so much cheaper now. It is very strongly constructed, much more so than Jools's manual one, and I can't fault it for what it is going to be used for.

The electronics for the raising and lowering are quite advanced compared to my expectations, with built-in overheating protection and limits on the duty cycle electronically enforced. If there is too much weight on the table it will not lift. It runs smoothly and silently. I was pretty impressed by what I got for the price.

The support structure for a small desk.



We decided we needed an other small desk. So I took what I had. Just some pine 4x4s, which I needed to rip to sort off 2x4s and then practised mortise and tenon joints.

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Considering i may have started this thread many Lockdowns ago.

I should report in, for some reason I’m still making saws I don’t understand why, but just going with the flow while it works it self out[emoji15].

So there’s a Silky Oak back saw that I’m just waiting on a piece of 01 tool steel to have slot cut in by one of the Gentleman on the Metal work forum, because I haven’t meet my Milling machine yet.

Then there’s a bucket list saw(That sounds sad) a Wheeler Madden and Clemson rip saw again in Silky Oak that is being worked on at present.


Ive also come to really like a small workbench area,it only takes a seconds to clean up,an put tools away[emoji41].

Cheers Matt.

I love my big bench. Although the actual working area is often only a quarter [emoji6]

Currently trying to finish my next speciality plane. Started more than a year ago and then the challenge came in between....



Close to reveal. Maybe still today or tomorrow [emoji848]

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Bench? What bench? I still don't have a bench or a vise. I do have an assembly table. Usually I have been able to clear that off after each project. Then I bought a garden trailer. Some assembly required. I put these parts on the table. Then I discovered I didn't actually need the garden trailer this year after all. So now I can't decide if I should assemble it or keep it in boxes because we will have to move next year.
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The project I had been working on therefore had to go on the table saw. I had managed to avoid populating the table saw up until then. To make it worse I have taken a break from woodworking and so my woodwork project has sat there unfinished for weeks and weeks.
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Perhaps now that I have confessed my woodwork sins I will get back out there and do something to regain my workspace.

The problem with taking a break is that I have lost some of my inertia. Is that something others can relate to?

I only finished building this bench in July, it has been a real game changer in my workshop and I don't know how I did without one for so long.
Anyway, I am putting together a canopy for the meatball cart I built a couple of months back. Been milling and dressing my timber, in these shots I am using my jack plane for final tidy up and removal of saw blade marks from ripping to width. A lovely tuned plane peeling off thin shavings, is a nice way to spend time in the shed.

I'm currently making a little box for my 7 year old.

She was given a science kit to make perfumes and its turned into a hobby. The box is to hold all the equipment together.

Still a long way to go, but the lower level has its dividers in place. Was my first attempt at veneering (the base) so I'm happy how it went.



Have some lovely camphor that I've book matched for the lid so looking forward to tackling that soon.

Been a while since a posting here so thought I'd restart it.

Finally got round to getting back onto the main project, the cabriole side table for SWMBO.

I held back for a while as i wanted to veneer some camphor make the dust cover between the draw box and the legs.

Never having veneered before i took the easier option of getting a roarocket vacuum bag. I'm happy with the result.

Next, the draw box and the top. Hopefully it might make it In time for Christmas.