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    Things are starting to move quickly now, made the dog block and fitted it to the front slab.....
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    Then whacking it all together....
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    Feeling mildly chuffed with myself at this stage, what an odyssey this has been for an inexperienced woodworker like myself, so much to learn, much stressing out about messing up, but here we are largely successful with minimal disasters. Just the gap stop and some final detailing to do now as well as some more coats of BLO and turps to apply, which should be done by mid next week. Once I have that all done I'll post some more shots with close ups of some of the more interesting parts of the bench.

    Phew......

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    Job well done Richard , just like in high jump you have to set the bar higher now! Do the BC wheels spin like in the vid’s?
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    Quote Originally Posted by AndrewPatrol View Post
    Job well done Richard , just like in high jump you have to set the bar higher now! Do the BC wheels spin like in the vid’s?

    The leg vise one does. There's not enough weight in the wagon vise wheel to do that. Give it the leg vise wheel a good flick and.....wheeeee.....in she goes. Most satisfying.

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    wow! that is an unbelievably good looking workbench! Can I ask why you chose maple?

    Also, can I ask what the dimensions of the legs are? how deep are the blind mortises? Did you feel like pinned mortises are sufficiently strong to resist racking from the heavy top?

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    Quote Originally Posted by yoboseyo View Post
    wow! that is an unbelievably good looking workbench! Can I ask why you chose maple?

    Also, can I ask what the dimensions of the legs are? how deep are the blind mortises? Did you feel like pinned mortises are sufficiently strong to resist racking from the heavy top?

    OK, I chose maple for the top as it's nice and light coloured and my aging eyes will appreciate it as a dark coloured top tends to suck up the light (actually it just doesn't reflect as much light as a pale wood).

    The bench was built from plans sold by the same company that sells the vise hardware, Benchcrafted and I've largely stuck to those with a few exceptions, the bench is six inches shorter than in the plan, 6' 9" instead of 7' 3", the dog holes in my bench are round rather than the square ones in the plan with individually made retracting dogs in each hole (I'll be using a pair of brass Veritas round ones), and the chop for the leg vise is one inch narrower than in the plan, 8" vs 9". The plans are all in Imperial so apologies for the 'freedom units'.

    The short stretchers (front to back) have 2" blind tenons pinned with Tasmanian Oak 9.5mm dowels as well as glue of course, and the long stretchers that connect the two sides of the base are not glued but are held in place by bolts and barrel nuts, the tenon in the large front stretcher is only 3/4" while the tenons in the rear long stretcher are 2". This arrangement with the barrel nuts means of course you can take the bench apart if needed.

    Each end of the top has a mortise on the underside that mates with a tenon in the top of the leg as well as a large coach bolt that fits from the underside of the short top stretcher into the top so that the top acts as a structural member.

    The legs measure 5 3/8" x 3 1/2" in cross section.

    There is no discernible wracking of any sort no matter how hard I push on the top. I reckon the bench weighs between 180-200 kg in total.

    As for whether I feel the design will hold up I've put my faith in the plans from Benchcrafted. I reckon they know more than I do.

    Cheers, Richard.

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    Just the gap stop and some final detailing to do, so onwards......
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    And there we have it, all done.
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    What a trip it's been, can't wait to use it.

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    It looks fantastic! And you'll appreciate all the work that went into it every time you use it. Great job, Zac.

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    You should be proud of your efforts, looks fantastic

    Can I ask, what are the dimensions of your top in total but then each split top depth and the tool holder down the middle?

    Cheers
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    Quote Originally Posted by delbs View Post
    You should be proud of your efforts, looks fantastic

    Can I ask, what are the dimensions of your top in total but then each split top depth and the tool holder down the middle?

    Cheers
    Nathan

    The dimensions of the top in total are about 81" (approx 2060mm) long and 24" (approx 610mm) deep. The plans called for a top 87" (approx 2210mm) long but I felt than was excessive, so no entry into the enormous Roubo hall of fame for me!

    Each section of the top is 11 3/16" (approx 284mm) deep and the gap stop is 1 5/8" (approx 41mm) deep. The actual length of the gap stop is irrelevant, I just made it such a length that when you lift it and move it sideways (so the rebates in the bottom don't sit over the top stretchers and the stop sits proud of the top) to use as a planing stop the gap stop doesn't overhang the ends of the top.

    The top sections are about 4" thick, or about 101mm.

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    A bench to be proud of.
    Regards
    John

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    Looks great!

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    Quote Originally Posted by orraloon View Post
    A bench to be proud of.
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    A bench to shelter under if there's ever an earthquake in your area !

    Very nicely done

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