Hand Crafted Woodworking
I have been using T-Track since about 2005. I have purchased T-Track from Rockler, Peachtree Woodworking and probably several other vendors. In the process of installing a new router table fence from WoodPecker I found my initial setup from 2008 used 5/16″ track. The Woodpecker system is 1/4″. The Woodpecker fence also […]
As I was working on WorkBench TWO, I pushed my router a too hard and burned the main bearing in my Dewalt DW618 router. This blog will describe in 48 pictures with commentary how to replace this bearing. I was not able to find any post that directly addressed this problem. This is […]
The Workbench is complete ! History I built my first workbench, Workbench ONE, in 2003. I have built many projects using this bench. It served me well. As I built these projects the “Roubo” workbench revolution in woodworking was underway. Chris Schwarz wrote his first book. Everyone was ( and still are ) […]
We are getting to the end. Today is finishing installing the twin vise and the shelf boards. The twin vise installation for hardware had been completed with the bench up-side down. This enabled me to do precision work will all of the hardware alignment, mounting the vise back boards and drilling the various […]
Today we are bringing the workbench top and the base together. It is a BIG day in this build. The bench base and top have been mated during the construction process, but upside down. I did actually attach the base to insure the precision lineup of all of the vise parts both mechanical […]
The objective is finishing the top and base. Full disclosure… The “Days” have become more of a group of days that all relate to the same process. After a great amount of discussion with other woodworkers, especially at HandWorks 2015, I finally came to a decision about the finishes for the workbench. One option was […]
The objective today is the bottom shelf. As the bottoms rails were milled, a 3/8″ dado was cut in each. I had also milled up the shelf supports several days before. So all was ready to start the install and shelf milling process. I also setup a 2nd work table in my “finishing” area. […]
The objective today was to fix the problem on the tail vise mounting stock. I realized yesterday as I was writing the notes for Day 26 pictures there was a problem with the mounting bolts for the tail vise stock. The sliding nut assemblies were engineered as two aluminum pieces so the bolt could move […]
The objectives today are to finish the twin vise and tail vise installations. Twin Vise All that remains for the twin vise is to mill a 2″ front vise face. This is required so that I can mark the shaft center holes on the vise front face without have to do very intense measurements […]
