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    When I was making my shelf, I left the two end pieces for last so I could fit them around the legs. I also didn't put a supporting cleat on the side rails until I had made the end pieces. With the end piece in place, without the cleat underneath, I could see light coming through the gap between the side rail and the end piece. It looked very wrong. Dark shadow lines everywhere with tongue/groove or a cleat underneath, and then light sneaking through that one gap. The light is gone now since I added a side rail cleat (necessary because that is the only support that the end piece receive)

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    The sliding deadman. I was going to use some super special reserve figured Redgum for the sliding deadman, but the deep red won't work well now that I have decided to colour the top with pink nail polish. Instead I'll use some plain jane blonde Spotted Gum which was going to be a live edge desk before the bugs chewed the sapwood to shreds!
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    Using a much wider board than needed for the final size, I cut a double miter along the length, and then lopped the top off to create a flat wide enough for a screw head.
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    I cut away the waste into the bottom of the deadman. The flat section is slightly raised above the deadman vee rail because I don't want that to be a point of contact between the two components.
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    I cut the tenon to fit into a groove that I had machined into the bottom edge of the front rail. With a bit of begging and pleading, I got it to fit. You have to insert the tenon into the groove, then put the vee rail under the deadman and kind of force it up and in.
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    From there, I could use a straight edge spanning the two dog holes in the legs to be able to transfer the vertical height of those holes onto the deadman. The straight edge is lined up with the bottom edge of the hole...it's easier than guesstimating the center of the hole. I can measure up 3/8" afterwards to get the center line for the hole on the deadman.
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    Then I could drill em out. I wasn't sure how many holes I'll be needing. My best guess was one or two, but I had room for more so.........
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    From here, it was all about the most important part of a workbench...the styling. Because the bench legs are splayed out on an angle, I wanted the deadman to sort of fill in the gap between it and the legs evenly. So I have made the top narrower than the bottom, and added a sexy curve. Looks pretty good I reckon. The deadman slides back and forth easily with light pressure up the top. It works better by pushing at the bottom as expected, but it slides perfectly fine even with the racking I apply to it when pushing from the top corner.
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    I'm back at work, so things have slowed down a little but I'm still chipping away here n there. This time I got the HNT Gordon tail vice and front vice installed. I butchered the installation a bit making small amounts of extra work for myself, but it all ended up good in the end, or it will when I fix a couple of things. First up I cut the recess for the tail vice. Snug as a bug in a rug.
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    Then I flipped the bench over and routed a slot inline with the tail vice slot so that any shaving that fall down the hole will be able to keep on falling to the ground.
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    The cover plate for the tail vice is super important. It's primary function is to look awesome, so I used some awesome looking figured Spotted Gum with some domed brass head screws. I'll clean it up later.
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    Now I could move over to the front vice. It's a pretty simple install though I still managed to butcher it. 2nd times a charm! There isn't much to it. Locate the vice, drill some holes, screw in some coach bolts to secure the vice in position. The only critical part is the vice must be installed square to the bench side (rear vice jaw). I actually installed it first time with the mounting plate being too far forward and it ended up being in front of the side of the bench by about 0.1mm. Clearly not good enough, I filled in the drilled holes with dowels and tried again with a little more thought.

    It's nice and square in both axis and works well even without the leather facing yet to be applied.
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    The vices work good, but it seems I don't have an action shot of the tail vice. I'll do it later. The bench didn't creak or whine, or crack or EXPLODE when I made a few edge shavings. So that's good too.

    You can see all of my struggles on YouTube if you want. Struggles is probably too strong of a word, more like half deliberate mistakes just because I can


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    Kuffy,
    I’m so so so sorry to hear of your work problems,
    I feel your pain,
    For those that don’t follow Kuffys You tube channel,
    Your really not living.

    Cheers Matt.

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    x 20
    The person who never made a mistake never made anything

    Cheers
    Ray

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    Quote Originally Posted by Simplicity View Post
    I’m so so so sorry to hear of your work problems,
    Given that I don't really do politically correct, I'll probably be out of a job soon when I say things like "underpayment of wages"

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    This looks good. I see why my bench thread didn’t get many lookers on the forum, it simply didn’t take long enough to build Your video shots are very professional too,and presented well, good one.

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    I've never really looked at the view counts on these forums. I see this forum as kinda old school where it is about actual content rather than just a bunch of BS with likes and follows etc. We've all seen cat videos, and we'll never get that time back again 😂

    On a forum like this, view count will increase as the replies count increases because it'll be the same interested people logging in to see the new post

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    I didn’t even know there was a view counter
    I just looked at the number of comments

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    Quote Originally Posted by riverbuilder View Post
    I didn’t even know there was a view counter
    There's a view counter? I have no idea where - like Kuffy (awesome bench BTW, been lurking on this thread for a while), I see this forum as a place to ask questions, share information and get answers, and it's well and truly beyond any "like" button numbers that might come with it.

    There's too much good information throughout hundreds of threads here - the only problem is, not enough time to read it all!

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    My bench is done! A single coat of danish oil on everything, and a bit of blue stain because, just because

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    It's pretty good, I'm happy with it. And in good news, it actually fits inside my workshop, though I will need to shift it ~600mm to be hard up against the buzzer when making a headcut on a sheet of MDF on my panel saw. Luckily it is only about 150kgs, and easily picked up and moved (one end at a time, I'm not the incredible hulk!)


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    Looks awesome kuffy.
    Really impressed, can’t wait too see it in use.

    Is there anything you would charge if you stared again.

    Cheers Matt

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    Top job on the bench. A very good well presented WIP also.
    Regards
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    I'm happy with the bench. There isn't anything that I would change for this bench. I would have liked to use a better quality material which was stiffer as my bench is a little drummy when beating on it between the legs..ugh, that sounds so wrong. Much of the problem stems from the fact that the Tassie Oak/Vic Ash that I used was somewhat degraded. I instantly noticed this when cleaning up tenon shoulders with a chisel. The timber just caved under the pressure of the chisel, similar to pine!

    The next bench I build will have vertical legs. Splaying the legs out created a fair bit of extra work, though I still maintain it looks cooler with splayed legs

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    Great looking bench Kuffy.

    Must feel good to have it done.

    What next? a few bench accessories?
    I got sick of sitting around doing nothing - so I took up meditation.

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