Hand Crafted Woodworking
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 […]
The objectives today were to complete the top glue up and mill the legs from the disaster glue up yesterday. I pulled the clamps off top sections 3 and 4 from yesterday’s glue up. The 2nd half looked really great. I then went through a complete dry run for the last top glue up. This […]
The objective for today is the glue up for the second half of the top and get the leg parts milled and glued up. The glue up for the top when great. Learned a few tricks from the first had and did not man handle the sections so much. So got the glue done and […]
The objective for today was a little underterminded. I thought I was going to work on leg milling but I took the 4th section out of the clamps and that started a whole sequence of events. I really wanted to see what the dog holes and tail vise slot would do when I ran the […]
The objective for today is routing out the tail vise slot and complete the glue up of the forth section of the top. That will be the last section. Built a jig to allow routing the template slot. This is being done on the side of the top piece. It uses the same router setups […]
The objective for Day 8 was dog holes ! Planning, reviewing the BenchCrafted web site, finding materials, making the jig, testing the jig and finally cutting the dog holes in the top piece. Before actually cutting the dog holes, I had to stop and figure out the placement of the alignment dominos I have been […]
Two objectives for day 7. Glue up 2nd leg sections and work on plan details for the fourth top section. The forth and last top section has the dog holes and tail vise slot incorporated in it. So this has to be planned out. Quickly completed the leg section glue up. I am really liking […]
The objective for Day 6 is to get the third top section glued up and start the milling and building process for the legs. The second section came out of the clamps in fine shape. I decided to cut off the excess length with my $20 handsaw. The saw and my technique have a long […]
After 10 years of building my shop and my skills and my craft taking a turn to more hand tools it was time for a new more functional workbench. The story is told in day by day blogs listed in the index below. Day 1 – Milling stock for the first of 4 top sections […]
Day 3 was exciting. The first slab of 4 was ready to come out of the clamps. The first process was to get the slab through the jointer and planer to get 4 sides square. The comments on the pictures really tell the story. The glue, while very different from my standard Titebond II or […]
