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19th July 2007, 05:41 PM #16Well Burnsy! now that you have had your bit of fun get back and do the tiling before the wife takes to you with the whip.
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Why did you opt for the one leg at one end. It looks great, will it be stable enough for real heavy stuff?
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16th September 2007, 08:01 PM #17
Finally got around to making a start on the wall cabinet for my woody tools. I have started with a framed and backed open cabinet using timber I already had in the shed. I used the old arco dovetailer to blind dovetail all the corners and then decided I wanted to be fancy and attach the two selves via dovetailing the ends. This created a side project and I had to knock up a basic router table out of what I had laying around and I must say I am pretty happy with the result for an hours effort and no cost. I will get some T track for the fence over the next few weeks and finish the top.
Back to the tool cabinet, the idea is that I will make two doors that will also be recessed so that they open out and act like a second cabinet like I have seen in a few other forum users sheds. I am waiting till I get my hands on a larger plane before I do that so I can make sure I accomodate it.
PS, finally bit the bullet and paid someone to tile the walls last week after nine months of procrastinating over it, now I just have to finish the floors I started
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17th September 2007, 12:04 AM #18Senior Member
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Nice bench! I've seen dining tables like that in galleries down south that had price tags of a few thousand $$$
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17th September 2007, 10:44 AM #19
Heavy bench Burnsy solid as Rock of Gibralter
swmbo has to understand that it was a necassary evil it now gives you a place to assemble/make build construct all the things she will want/need you to do.
A nive wip and a bench worth $$$$$
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2nd October 2007, 02:11 AM #20
Thank gawd you found it!! Man it was driving me bloody troppo looking for this thing... I mean "three legged workbench" didnt work "burnsys workbench"
didnt work heck even "Dopey Wombats weird workbench" didnt work!!
Okay its now in my favorites and a couple of the pics are being printed just so my memory gland doesnt forget
It sure is a curious beast isnt it... and solid you say? whats the INCH size of that big leg mate? I got several seriously BIG lumps of Jarrah out the back still have a mess of Jarrah planks and a few 3x3s of Tuart... and Ive found a good source of threaded rod and by gawd this time Im gonna bung a few rods through the sucker... and Ive got an itch to make ANOTHER bench!!
Im thinkin a nice 3 legged one would be something different... and if I do it right may even be good as the bar bench for when I get another shed and end up draggin the big fridge out of the seatainer and into its rightful place full of the righteous gear
Hey a question mate... I can see how youve got the big leg joined to the cross rail but not the other end did you send it through the rail or some sort of tenon trick I cant make out?
Is that your shed floor? DIRT?? man mate... dirt? wow Ive been avoiding that maybe I should just get loose an put a shelter up zap some power out there (the extention lead thing is sooooooo old now ) and do some serious building eh?
CheersBelieve me there IS life beyond marriage!!! Relax breathe and smile learn to laugh again from the heart so it reaches the eyes!!
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19th March 2008, 10:16 PM #21
Sorry Shane, missed replying to this but it looks like it does not matter as you could not find it anyway
The leg is 7 inches. The two smaller legs are attached to the top via large 2 inch deep tenons. The front face is dowelled on. I was going to run some dowells down into the legs but decided against it as it does not need it. Dro us a line and come and have a squiz next time you are up if you want, the beer fridge is only two steps away from it so you can try it out as a bar as well if you like
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7th July 2008, 09:57 PM #22
Holidays again so things is happening (not the grouting of the last few tiles that is still waiting though). Finally got some time to put some doors on the cabinet and started to fit it out. The chisel racks are mounted using 45 degree mounts so that they can be removed as half racks. The idea is that I will have a bench rack that they can be fitted to while in use so they are within reach and stay in a rack instead of rolling off onto the concrete. It also means that the cabinet can be refitted at any time by simply making new racks using the same ply cut to 45 degrees. The top section to house my Titan firmers is next (they are sitting on the bench feeling neglected at the moment) before I start on rehandling them all.
The EK has gone to another home since my last post which means I have lots more room. This has meant I can spread out and have actually organised my wood racks. Also traded the Triton on a Jet and have dragged dad's AW106 into the shed and tuned it up until I can afford to buy a more upmarket one. Ducting the workshop, building a cyclone and putting it and the exhaust vent outside is the next big project as I want to be rid of the fine dust and the noise that the dusty creates.
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7th July 2008, 10:35 PM #23
So Burnsy sounds like the bug has well and truly bitten, not the EK.
What style cyclone are you going to build? Look forward to more pics as you go.
Cheers
Mike
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7th July 2008, 10:51 PM #24
A real basic one, looking for a 60 litre drum that I will cut the top out of, invert, make up a cone for and cut a hole in the top for a piece of 120mm PVC which will be the outlet. My existing dusty fan will push the dust and chips into the top of the cyclone via a side chute. Fine dust will exhaust into the atmosphere outside.
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8th July 2008, 12:29 AM #25
Oh noooo not the EK!(hope you got a good price for her)
Looks like your shop is starting to take shape... it never ends!....................................................................
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8th July 2008, 11:03 AM #26
EK Has left the building obviously $$$$$ went to new tools Mike hey we can see the floor and there's that Jake Bench looks like it's been well used the shines gone off a bit.
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14th July 2008, 07:50 PM #27
Another step forward along the road to organisation today. Spent some time knocking together a bench caddy that accepts my chisel racks. It is constructed out of jarrah, tassie blackwood and ply using dovetails and mortise and tenons. Eventually it will have a few holes bored in the top of it to house such items as marking out gear, still getting my head around where and how that will happen and also whether I need to add a central handle to move it around by. Overall I am really happy with the 45 degree mounting rails, they work a treat.
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18th July 2008, 11:11 PM #28
Burnsy, that is an uber cool bench. Every piece has a story ..... I love it.
Well done, and hope you have lots of fun years of use.
Tex
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19th July 2008, 12:06 PM #29
Hi Burnsy,
Like those new handles you have there (for the Titans) I am guessing.
Well done.
Cheers
Pops
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2nd September 2008, 11:30 PM #30
The Jets Are Multiplying
Fathers day has come early and the Jet cohort has grown to four machines now. Dad's ML392 is now feeling rejected in the corner.
Have been working on a butchers block/kitchen island bench to have on display at the markets this weekend. Bit of a rush job as I did not think I would get a stall so quickly. Hopefully it will be together and ready in time, just have to make the table buttons and buy some rail handles for tea towel hanging. Frame is Jarrah and the top is eastern hardwoods from some laminated beam offcuts. Top finished in Orgaoil HBO and the base in polyoil mix.
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