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    Thanks for going to the trouble to get those extra photos, Rob. It's great to see the guts of it and how it fits together.

    Ball Peen, I love the maxim 'Make the drawing tell you' . My drawing's pretty tight lipped about a lot of issues, maybe if I get it drunk...

    Matt
    ...I'll just make the other bits smaller.

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    Matt,

    You could make the drawing board , 1.2 x 1.2 x 12mm MDF should do. And the T square and two set squares from MDF 6 or 8 mm. Or make the board and buy the rest. There is a little more to If you make it, but I don't know if I'm explaining something you already know or not.

    Then buy A2 paper , some tracing paper , a push lead .5 mm pencil and a rubber.And a scale ruler that has a 1:10 and a 1:5 scale on it

    The basics of it is that you draw your top first , in the top left side of the paper, in a plan view, looking down at it , to a scale of 1 to 5 where 1mm = 5mm
    so that 1mm on paper is 5mm of bench top.

    Then directly under that draw the front elevation , and to the right of that the side elevation. all the key points drawn in the plan view of the top just drop down to help draw the front elevation with the T square , and the same goes for drawing the side elevation from the front with the T square and a set square.

    The T square slides across the bottom edge of the board only, with it's long straight edge going from the bottom to the top of the board and set squares are used to the right of the T squares edge.

    You draw all this knowing the dressed dimensions of your timber. And the type of joinery you want to use.

    And you just start off by drawing what you know, figuring out all the things you don't know will be much easier to work out on a half drawn bench to scale than none.

    Once it's drawn you can then work out a cutting list. this is done not so much by measuring directly off the drawing but with some maths . and your known dressed sizes and things like length of tenon or dovetail to be used.

    let me know if you want more info on this I'm just skipping through it quickly here.

    Cheers Rob

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    Thanks, Rob. That's a great primer.

    I actually worked as an illustrator for quite a while and have been working as an artist for the last ten years or so. That is to say, I have more drawing media than you could shake a stick at and am pretty comfortable sketching up an idea. BUT, I never had any training in technical drawing, so the description of your process is gratefully received. I'll get a plan together over the weekend.

    From the squiggles I have so far, it's looking pretty Biedermeier, we'll see how it looks with some straight lines and proper dimensions.

    Thanks again for all the help.

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    Just a brief thought I had:

    Could you use google sketchup? It's pretty easy to use, you can add dimension labels and its easy to do plan / elevation views and print to scale.

    Just a thought.

    Nick

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    Quote Originally Posted by nick_b00 View Post
    Just a brief thought I had:

    Could you use google sketchup? It's pretty easy to use, you can add dimension labels and its easy to do plan / elevation views and print to scale.

    Just a thought.

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    Hi Nick,

    It would be the logical thing to do and I've done up some vice plans on the computer in the past, but to be honest I find it slower than using a pencil. I'm sure a someone that did a lot of architectural draughting could draw it up in 5 minutes in CAD or Sketchup but for me the computer is for conspiracy theories, pirating movies and woodwork forums

    Matt
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    Quote Originally Posted by Berlin View Post

    it's looking pretty Biedermeier, we'll see how it looks with some straight lines and proper dimensions.


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    Whats that! Biedermeier with flowers ??

    ha ha , joking.

    A Biedermeier style bench would be pretty nice to look at actually , specially the earlier looking plain sharp style. plenty of it has half , full and flat columns , you would have to veneer drawer fronts, nothing wrong with that though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by auscab View Post
    Whats that! Biedermeier with flowers ??

    ha ha , joking.

    A Biedermeier style bench would be pretty nice to look at actually , specially the earlier looking plain sharp style. plenty of it has half , full and flat columns , you would have to veneer drawer fronts, nothing wrong with that though.
    Biedermeier-ish

    Here's a doodle. I stuck the half hight internal columns on on a whim and that's what looks a little bit Biedermeier to me.
    ImageUploadedByTapatalk1363312981.782007.jpg
    ...I'll just make the other bits smaller.

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    That looks real good Matt.
    The columns can get in the way of a full swing open for a door , unless the column is on the door.
    You would know that , just a thought here.
    Have you decided on screw type ? looks like metal ones.

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    Hello Rob,

    It's obvious that I don't stray too far from my usual forum haunt and this thread was a chance encounter, found it while searching for something else. The memories flood back of an enjoyable evening spent in the company of three talented men. I remember the smell of your workshop, the blackwood, the beautiful tools and that bench. Just wonderful.

    Bob Thomas.

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    Ha Ha , Hi Bob ,
    We , [ Us blokes ] know how to have a good time, don't we .

    The showing and sharing of knowledge and materials and a good feed is a little more complex now days but it's funny to think how thousands of years ago Men were doing the same satisfying things.

    There would have been a night in history where a few men sat around a fire and talked of hunting with stones and wood and one of them pulls out a piece of Bronze that came from over the hills and demonstrated that it holds an edge better than stone, and the other guys would have nodded and made the same sounds as I did when you were talking of your Mill and the infill plane body.

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    Hi auscab, First may I say a very beautiful bench indeed, I wonder what it would cost to make now given the price of timber, I am in the process of trying to source timber to build a roubo style bench at a reasonable price, at this rate it will be one board at a time.
    Cheers Richie Rich

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    Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor said it all.

    Ugh Ugh Ugh. OhYeahOhYeah.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Richie Rich View Post
    Hi auscab, First may I say a very beautiful bench indeed, I wonder what it would cost to make now given the price of timber, I am in the process of trying to source timber to build a roubo style bench at a reasonable price, at this rate it will be one board at a time.
    Cheers Richie Rich


    Thanks Richie Rich .

    New timber, Jarrah straight off the rack would cost a fair bit these days. even second hand good sizes do cost as well I suppose.
    I was lucky to have bought the wood a long time ago.

    I think a good way would be to see what the local guys with portable mills have stashed away. Down this way I do see good Blackwood sizes some times.

    That would be a sight , a nice blackwood bench .

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    What an awesome bench!
    "I am pretty sure I am near the end of my tool buying though." - this put a chill down my spine. The horror! Please tell me that such a day never comes!
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    Hello Auscab,

    Firstly, what a cracker of a bench!!! I'm currently doing a lot of research before I build my "serious" bench and yours is serving as an inspiration.

    In post #28 you wrote that you French polished the bench which I assume included the top. This is the 1st time I've heard of someone finishing a workbench like this and I just have a couple of questions. Firstly, what was your reasons were for choosing to finish your bench this way? The standard seems to be BLO + mineral turps and then topped off with paste wax. This was the finish I was leaning towards but I don't like how it changed the colour of the wood too much. I've used Ubeut's Hard Shellac before, and I liked how it didn't change the colour too much, but I never considered it for a workbench before.

    Secondly, in the same post you also wrote that that "when it gets a bit to dirty I give it a light cut back with a oil and turps mix and give it a go over with a rubber with shellac". What oil do you use? BLO, Danish, tung, or something else?


    Cheers and thanks for the inspiration,

    Mike

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