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 […]
Workbench Two – Day 3
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 […]
Workbench TWO – Day 2
Day 1 I milled the first 4 boards for the bench top. These were ready to be glued. Day 2 was the glue up. This was very interesting and I learned what worked and what did not work. I am using TiteBond Extended glue. This give me 15 minutes open time and 25 minutes working […]
Workbench TWO – Day 1
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 […]
