Thread: WIP - Groggy's Workbench

damm, there goes the workshop

Originally Posted by Groggy

Oh she is more subtle than that. She brings lunch out and sits at the bench

HAH! HAH! HAH! I thought she might, anything like my trouble and strife she would have the "perfect place" for it!, it'll be too flash to use mate, hammer a bit then patch up the scratches, hammer a bit more and polish off the marks!!! LOL! no mate you'll be as flash as a rat with a gold tooth with that one in pride of place! looking good!

Lots of fun today. Bruce and I decided we could flip the top ourselves. I tell ya, we are probably 220kg between us, and lifting that thing had us making girly noises. First, the slab was lifted by Bruce on one end and I moved the holdfast up a hole. Then the other end is lifted and the other holdfast is raised. Repeat twice more and the top is 300mm below the top of the frame.

Now, grab an end and lift the top (start girly noises here), stand it on its edge on top of the frame - rest (end girly noises here). Make mental note that all body parts are still where they should be, then plan next step.

Now slide top over to far side of the frame and gently lower it onto its back. Make a few more girly noises just for effect. At this point Bruce scarpers off and leaves me to it (thanks mate ).

Now to flatten the thing, oh my gawd, is that a 1.5mm variation? Groan....

My son made a "little" movie for post #500, Not for the bandwidth challenged - LARGE.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPdNun7zmeI"]YouTube- Groggy's Workbench, top jointing Pt X[/ame]

A couple of gratuitous pics of the top. This is now mostly flat but still needs finishing with a sharp smoother. The front skirt is dry dominoed in place so I can get the top flat and level. The clamps are just to stop any tendency for the skirt to move. This has to be done first as the template for the Benchcrafted wagon vise references itself from the top and, if the dimension changes too much, the handwheel may protrude over the top. I definitely do not want that to happen.

The tool used as a 'scrub' plane was a stock Stanley #4 with a ASW blade. Love that blade The long plane is the HNT Gordon jointer which was a godsend for getting the top flat over the full length. When you get a full 2500mm shaving out of that plane it is a satisfying moment.

Now I need to cut the rebates for the end caps, flip the top again on its edge, square up the skirt to the top, flip the top again, cut the opposite end cap rebate, cut the deadman slot, cut the vise slot, rebate the end caps themselves, make some big dovetails, install the vise, test it, remove it, route slots and drill for the end cap bolts, install the end cap bolts, make a chop, install the leg vise hardware, trim the deadman, remove the temporary frame, mark the mortise positions, flip the top again, cut the mortises, flip the top, seat the top on the mortises and drawbore them, finish the chop and vise, final smooth the top, tidy up and put the tools away, drink a big beer.

Originally Posted by Groggy

... drink a big beer.

I would have drunk a big beer after you two finished making girly noises earlier today lifting the thing, 'cause by reading what you have to get done before you have another big drink you could be in for a lonnnnnnnggggggggggggg wait.

Strewth.... it looks like a bowling alley.

What type timber is that??

Very nice Groggy. The full length shaving was most impressive.

good god, I grizzled about my bench taking all day to build, 50mm square steel tube dyna bolted to the floor with two 2.4 x 1.2 sheets of chipboard end to end as the top (4.8 long by 1.2 wide) shelf built the same at 300 off the floor four inbuilt power plugs and air all round!

that bench is a thing of beauty

Beautiful job Groggy!

I'm waiting to see the picture of the first nail hammered into the new bench top.

Originally Posted by teakman

What type timber is that??

Jarrah

Originally Posted by NCArcher

Very nice Groggy. The full length shaving was most impressive.

I only got a few of them and was lucky to get one on camera. The top isn't totally flat yet, still 0.5 to 1.0mm in some places. I'll get there eventually but have a rather big sharpening session to do first. I noticed a couple of the blades need their edges rolled a bit.

Originally Posted by Woodwould

Beautiful job Groggy!

I'm waiting to see the picture of the first nail hammered into the new bench top.

Thanks WW, not in your class at all but I am learning a lot and enjoying it immensely.

The first nail really won't bother me much, it is just a bench after all.

Video is great , tell Doug I said he did a good job.

Timber looks to be Ironwood on the new plane? And what blade did you get, TS or HSS?

Originally Posted by DJ's Timber

Video is great , tell Doug I said he did a good job.

Timber looks to be Ironwood on the new plane? And what blade did you get, TS or HSS?

Stock standard plane, Ironwood TS, and it is a ripper