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    Default On to greater things

    Given that our house is now pretty much done (except for the tiling which is probably why I opted to clean the shed) I figured it is about time I get the shed in order and make a decent bench. This is the fourth time I have had to redo the shed in the past 18 months as it held all our worldly possessions as well as building materials and tools during our owner builder adventure. As such there has been plenty of movement in and out and lots of associated shyte left lying around. This time will be the last until the great shed extension (see future chapters).

    For starters I needed to get some gear such as the nephews bikes I had collected out, so into the old dog shelter they were going, this led to the problem of the shelter being blocked by an old Jarrah door frame that was earmarked for fire wood. This created further stiring of the grey matter along the lines of that jarrah could be used in a bench which I am going to need, mmmmn also gets rid of the sheet of 18mm ply and the 100 x 100 karri post that is lying on the floor - the bench shall consume it. So off to the forum to gander at a few benches, geez, now the grey matter is truly working, I can't use ply, and I start crying about the lengths of 4 x 12 jarrah that I burnt at my fathers last year because I could not be bothered moving them and "I was not going to collect crap at the new place" - that didn't last long, once a magpie always a magpie.

    So I reconfigure the shed, pull down the door frame to extract all the usable jarrah, plan the bench in my head and decide I need much more old jarrah (that is this weekends job) to complete it as I want one of those "darksider benches that look so good". The sheet of ply, that will just have to stay in the way a while longer. So the bench starts to take further shape in the void upstairs and the light turns on, gee I'll need a vice, I nice big vice. So today I do one of my favourite things and drive the long way home past every second hand store and cash converters on Albany highway. First stop, the Rocket Cash near my school, $220 later and I have a 225 dawn vice and a 2050 Jonesred chainsaw. The vice was $70, I think these are $340 new and this one looks new.

    So this is the start, I will take photos on the way, hopefully it won't be a long way. Here is the start, including my mate spot the big fat geko who I find evey time I clean the shed or wander in after dark, never seen one this big in the Perth hills before but I have seen two since moving here. Oh and if anyone in Perth has another old veranda post lying around they they want rid of, I need another one please.

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    Stumbled across a guy filling up a skip bin with old jarrah on Saturday on the way back from a decking job, lucky because it meant I had an empty trailer with me

    He was unloading the skip because it was too full and the contractor would not take it so was very happy for me to fill my trailer. Plenty of the timber was shot but I did get enough stud jarrah that was all about 800mm long to do my bench top. I don't have a thicknesser so I denailed it and ran it through my bench saw with a fine blade before docking it square and gluing it up. I only faced the edges and left the top and bottom rough sawn. Ten minutes with the electric planer and a straight edge today on each side and I had a flat dressed bench top ready for sanding

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    Nice pick up Burnsy will make a great bench. BTW Kermit Green wasn't on the colour charts till 1972ish if my memory serves me correctly although I am not qualified to comment on 1958ish.
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    Can we see some piccys of kermit the EK?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry72 View Post
    Can we see some piccys of kermit the EK?
    These are the only ones I have on the net at the moment

    http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v2...rnsy/?start=40

    Few more here

    http://www.fbekholden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2027

    And here

    http://www.fefcholden.org.au/cgi-bin...num=1178664546

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    Glued on some cross bracing and a block template for the vice yesterday using the left over jarrah. Woke up at about 3.30 am with the sudden thought that I put the vice block on the wrong side

    Luckily I had enough of the jarrah left to make another for the other side so fitted that today. Also cleaned up the Karri (at least I think it is karri) for the legs and got excited and glued them on. I am heading out to the inlaws tomorrow, they live on a property that use to have a mill on it and there is heaps of old jarrah lying around. Hopefully I will be able to find something for the other legs and the face of the bench. I would love to find a massive lump and just have one leg at the other end. So far I have only bought the vice and the glue.

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    Had a win today and found that big lump of jarrah I was hoping for. In fact it was over four metres long. I got three metre lengths out of it, the fourth was split in half so is currently warming the house. I used the worst of the three for the bench and will save the others for a rainy day.

    Cleaned up the leg and fitted it. The center rail is not fixed yet and is just sitting in a tennon joint against the karri legs and sitting between the blocks I rebated into the big leg, I was hoping this would help to stop any further splitting of the leg. The center rail is an old jarrah veranda post an looks great except for the routed lines that still have the heritage green paint in them that the post had all over it. The paint is too hard to get out and I figure it matches the EK

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    I am going to fit jarrah edge right the way around the bench, this will incorporate the vice face. My intention is to glue and dowel using heavy jarrah dowel. Question is do I have to dowel at the same time I glue or can I glue and clamp and them go around later and drill and dowel right through the edge into the table top - this just seems less fiddley?

    Cheers,
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    Well your not going to break that leg in a hurry!

    Thanks for the piccys of Kermit, the club cruise would have been a nice day by the looks... some sweet metal
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    Default Upright

    Things are moving along slowly but it is upright and really solid

    I need to flatten the entire top using the router set up on some straight edges - mm big job, but it needs to be done. Hopefully tomorrow, cant wait to sand it off and oil it. I oiled the bottom before I turned it over and the jarrah came up real nice, the big leg is really dark in colour. The vice is built into the front edge (hope I never have to remove it) and now just needs a nice piece of jarrah for it's front jaw.

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    I routed the whole top level and smooth using a 20mm bit and two straight edges - only took three hours I slipped off the rails a couple of times and left some divets in the top but rather than filling them Ihave left them to remind me why I need a thicknesser and a jointer.

    I am really happy with how it has turned out, did I mention it is solid and I have not had to pay for one piece of timber, everything was scavenged out of skip bins and rural properties.

    Oiled it up and the jarrah looks a treat, dirty stuff though, I am brown from head to toe, I really should get a dusty, or steal dad's while he is off trippin around Oz .

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    Speaking about being a magpie.......

    My neighbour across the street demolished the skillion area of her 1930 home in preparation for a major extension. All the jarrah rafters and other jarrah timbers were thrown into a skip. With permission, I salvaged most of the timber, which mainly consists of 100mm x 50mm x 2.4m with a few by 3m. One piece is 80mm x 40mm x 4.9mm plus there are a few other odd sizes (including a 170mm x 30mm x 2.9m Jarrah barge board which I badly need for my place). I left the timber that was painted (I may go back tomorrow to reassess this timber).

    At the moment, I have no idea what to do with the salvaged timber as I do not, at this stage, have any decent power tools. But one of these days......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ekim View Post
    At the moment, I have no idea what to do with the salvaged timber as I do not, at this stage, have any decent power tools. But one of these days......
    It does not take alot, I have an old Triton that I ran all the 2x4 through to get a reasonably decent face to glue this up. Although it looks great it is certainly not furniture grade and you can see where having to use the triton and an electric hand planer rather than a jointer and thicknesser have made some boards not quite square. I know you could have done all this with a hand saw and plane but I am not that keen, I am a quick results type of guy.

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    Well 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.

    Yes the decision to keep it or get rid of it. Back in February 2006 when I stripped my 50's built house for demolition I kept all timbers 3x2 and above. At todays prices for Jarrah I've guesstimated I got $7,000 worth.

    When I've finished building my house I'll be making some fine (in my eyes) pieces of Jarrah furniiture

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burnsy View Post
    I would love to find a massive lump and just have one leg at the other end. So far I have only bought the vice and the glue.
    Why did you opt for the one leg at one end. It looks great, will it be stable enough for real heavy stuff?

    PS. I had a EK ute back in 1962. First vehicle I bought when I arrived in Australia, should have kept it eh? traded it in on a used EJ in 65
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