Thread: Another workbench WIP

Looks like it will have a decent surface area! Keep it coming!

Done anymore yet?

I'll be watching this one progress Jeremy. I had to google blockboard though. Looks like interesting stuff. I have already thought of a few uses for it.
Move over Nick, stop hogging the bench.

Good for you! I haven't seen or heard of blockboard since I moved here. I just assumed it was a British product.

There is a supplier in Sydney (I'll add a link to the thread tomorrow - I'm a bit the worse for wear at the moment).
I have attached a few more floorboards during the week and given some more thought to the undercarriage and how I'll attach it to the work surface.
I'll add more photos during the weekend.

This is where I got my blockboard from http://www.ecocore.com.au/products/- I see that also have it made from bamboo as well as poplar. They seem to have interstate distributors for those who don't live in Sydney or NSW

This weekend I finished gluing the floorboards to the bottom of the work surface. There are some gaps which I will fill with epoxy. Then I will scrub plane and joint it flat. Then glue the side and end caps. Attachment 169262

I have also selected the stock for the legs and the rails and after flattening the lower surface of the work surface and attaching the caps, I will do the joinery for the undercarriage. Once that is finished, I'll glue the floorboards onto the top.

That's going to look pretty nice when it's done.

Cheers
Bob

Nice.

I had a change of plan so I started putting on the top side of the bench and upped the thickness from 12mm to 37mm (found I still had a stash of 37mm x 250mm spotty). Here's a couple of piccies.

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The first two planks have gone on, and now I have to rip a few more pieces to finish the top and to do the sides and end caps. The only problem is that we have had some new electrical work done (including getting 3 phase put on) and now the DC keeps tripping the safety switch on one circuit. I will need to use it on another circuit which means re-arranging the shed space to put the machines in the right places to do that safely....

So I gave up on what Catweazle called 'electrickery' and ripped the last bit for the top surface of the benchtop and the side skirts by hand. That's about 6 metres of hand sawing through 37mm spotty. That was quite knackering!

I glued the last bit to the top and started the skirt. Here's a photo (if I can work out how to add photos from my iPhone using Tapatalk). I decided to scarf the skirt (sounds like a wardrobe, not a bench to get rid of some horribly knotty sections. We'll see how it looks when we finish.

Coming along nicely Jeremy. You have to be keen to handsaw that stuff!

Originally Posted by Groggy

Coming along nicely Jeremy. You have to be keen to handsaw that stuff!

Keen, Greg ?? You mean bl@@dy stark staring bonkers. But I was sick of having the stuff sitting there waiting while the sparky gets around to working out why the circuit keeps tripping.

Btw the saw I used is not the plastic handled POS sitting on the benchtop (I had just finished using that for cutting firewood). I used my 5ppi Tyzack rip saw for the bench. So at least my hands and arms are only tired not torn to shreds!