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WIP Shaker Workbench with Split Top
G'day all,
I've finally started building my workbench and I thought I'd share my progress. I don't really have a plan, it's just all in my head. I'm relatively inexperienced and this is the most ambitious and complex woodworking project I have attempted. As such, I'm probably won't be doing things as how things are supposed to be done. In other words, my way is probably not the one to use as a tutorial.
The bench will be an island type (i.e. it won't be up against a wall) and I'm aiming for a length of 2.9m and a depth of 950mm. The base will be constructed of Australian HW (legs are blackbutt, stretchers are ironbark, web frames probably spotted gum). The 4" top will be made of 2 laminated slabs of reclaimed spotted gum. The drawer sides will probably be Tassie Oak and the faces will be old growth fiddleback Tassie Oak I bought from Sapherion.
Here's my progress so far:
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Hopefully somewhere in this pile of timber is my dream workbench.
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Laminating the legs.
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The finished legs. The left leg is 265mm wide and 70mm thick. The right leg is 100mm x 70mm. The left is wider to accommodate the leg vise.
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I dropped one of the legs and broke one of the corners of the dovetail tenon. I couldn't find the broken corner to glue it back on so I used a rasp to flatten the corner and glued a scrap piece.
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The result. The grain and colour isn't a match but it's going to be hidden by the top so it doesn't really matter.