Hand Crafted Woodworking
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 […]
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 […]
