Hand Crafted Woodworking
The objectives to day are finish the bolts and barrel nuts installation on the long rails and work on the twin-vise install. NOTE: The pictures for this day contain extensive step by step notes. Please refer to them for any questions you might have regarding the details of the installation noted below. First the bolts […]
Objectives for today are trimming the drawbore peg, drilling pre-drill holes for lag screws and sizing, cutting tenons and fitting the long rails. Trimming the drawbore pegs was a first for me. I used the Veritas Flush-Cutting saw. The cut was amazing. A little experimentation to hold the saw very flat and I […]
The objective today is to get the short rails and corresponding legs completed and assembled. Some finishing steps were required on the short rails to have them ready for glue up and draw boarded. Drilled all the holes in the top short rails that will allow the 3/8″ x 5 1/2″ lag bolts to be […]
Objective today is complete the short rails mortise and tenons for for 2nd set of legs. Start installation of twin vise including cutting clearance in upper rail, sizing and initial fitting of backer boards for twin vise. Completing the remaining mortise and tenons for the short rails was straight forward. Learned a lot on […]
The object today was supposed to be finishing the tenons and short rails. In order to do that I needed an exact understanding of the relationship if the vises to the legs. The twin will has an control shaft that connects the two locking mechanisms. This will pass over one of the upper short […]
The objective for today is mortises for the legs. The leg tenons have been cut but need the mortises. Since this needed exact registration, I decided to make a router template and cut the mortise using a Whiteside Ultimate Trim bit. This is a very robust and smooth cutting bit. So this will be a […]
Objective to day is the Tail Vise end, vise placement and sizing the short rails for the legs. I started the day realizing I needed to 2″ stock. So this would have to be 12/4 stock to get a full 2″. I went over to my local Woodcraft. They had one piece of hard […]
Objective for today is completing the Four Square of the top. This included the two ends and the front and back faces of the workbench top. I stared by doing some cleaning and de-cluttering some work surfaces. A clean shop is a safer shop and makes me happy. I had previously trimmed the tail […]
Objective for today is four square the workbench top. Really !! This all started when I had completed the flattening of the bottom of the workbench and all the milling and mortise work on the legs. At that point I realized I could start positioning the legs and maybe connect the short rails into […]
The objective for today was to finish the mortises in the leg. There are 12 to do. So I selected tools, Veritas PMV11 Chisels, 1″, 5/8″ and 1/2″. Mallets, Starrett 6″ square and of course my well used calipers. I started with the large 1″ wide drilled out holes. This was a very big […]
