Hand Crafted Woodworking
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 […]
The objective today is to really get the legs processed. This includes marking all the mortises and hole locations. That took about an hour. Then I am using my drill press to cut the mortises and of course drilling the pin and bolt holes. The measuring and marking went well. I have looked […]
The objective today is legs. Squaring the ends, cutting to final length, locating and cutting all of the mortises. This includes lots of work with the plans to find dimensions and locate the correct location on the correct face of the milled leg. The day started with the plans. I got out the large version. […]
