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Thread: WIP - Groggy's Workbench
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6th September 2009, 01:52 PM #106
Assembly: back legs and stretcher
Finally, after 13 months, I've applied some glue (I know, I know )
I did the wedges and glue up this weekend. Fiddly time consuming exercise. Five minutes off gluing up on Saturday and SWMBO reminded me we were going out to dinner. Lucky it wasn't a few minutes later
I kept the piece I cut out of the shelf rebate to use as a spacer during the glue up and that is what you can see clamped at the top of the legs.
A special thank you to Col for letting me use his long clamps for the glue up, mine were 100mm too short.
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6th September 2009, 03:55 PM #107
Big step, Grog. You sure you're ready?
Tex
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6th September 2009, 08:06 PM #108
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6th September 2009, 08:41 PM #109SENIOR MEMBER
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Looking good Groggy. You can't rush these things...
ajw
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7th September 2009, 10:59 AM #110
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7th September 2009, 01:40 PM #111
I did come in to this thread half way so does not seem that long to me.
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7th September 2009, 07:33 PM #112
A red letter day..
Finally, a decent mock up to show the overall plan. You can see just how many clamps can be squeezed under the bench in the clamp cubby (tm)
The top shelf has to be sanded, edged and made ready for fixing, but here I am a bit unsure. how much room should be left for expansion? I'd hate to crack the legs off
In the pictures the side stretchers have yet to be attached and the clamp heads will be covered also. The end of the clamp shelf will have a strip of timber attached to dress it off. That timber will come from the offcuts off the top shelf.
The deadman will be trimmed once the top is made.
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7th September 2009, 08:23 PM #113
looking good greg
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7th September 2009, 09:10 PM #114
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8th September 2009, 08:59 PM #115
Groggy ,been reading this thread with interest,like the way you store the clamps.
Good to see the progressive stages of your frustrations coming to fruition
CheersJohnno
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8th September 2009, 09:20 PM #116
Thank you John. I have been meaning to mention that the pine deadman is temporary. The piece I had earmarked had split but I didn't notice till I went to dress it. Oh well, easily fixed (glad it wasn't a leg ).
I am very pleased with the clamp racks under the shelf. I will be using a dowel through the dog holes as another clamp rack. That way I can just slide it out to remove it or use the end as a support dog.
It was a good feeling to (finally) put the frame together. This weekend I want to put the side stretchers in but may have to wait as my dowel plate has been on backorder from LN for ages. I ordered some drawbores from LV and they turned up in four days (excellent service as always), now I need to make the dowels.
I still haven't decided how much room to leave for expansion of the shelf timber, 5mm should do it if I don't clamp the boards together too tightly. In fact, I may just attach the shelf boards with screws in slots, that should solve the problem.
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8th September 2009, 09:29 PM #117
So Groggy,will you have the bench finished and on display at the Melbourne WW show, I'd like to see if you need to buy more clamps
CheersJohnno
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8th September 2009, 09:40 PM #118
You can never have enough clamps I thought I had a few now but I was 100mm short when gluing up the bench
I don't think I could get the bench up on the ute to take to the show, it is a *little* bit heavy.
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9th September 2009, 09:26 AM #119Skwair2rownd
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Good grief Groggy. Not even Bunnies has that many clamps.
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9th September 2009, 11:44 AM #120
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