Hand Crafted Woodworking
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The objective for today is flattening the bottom and milling the 6 rails. Lot of hand work with my planes. Been out of the shop for a few days. It was good to get back to the workbench build. The first task was to get the top out of the clamps. I had to lift […]
So I am finally building a new workbench. My original bench has served well. Solid core door with two vises. The new bench is “roubo” style bench. I was inspired by the Chris Schwarz’s first workbench book and all of the woodworking community activity following. A few descriptive items: 250 board feet of “soft” 8/4 […]
