A New Saw Bench
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17 October 2014 at 1:38 pm #119624
Hi guys it’s been a while I’ve been kind of flatout again but I’m desparately in need of a new saw bench so I’ve decided to divert my attention in making one. In between my current orders and still keeping my second job mainly for rainy days progress is kind of slow but better late never. The new bench will be from Tom fidgen’s design it’s just perfect and practical. So far I’ve completed the legs and stretches and just need to finish off some angled and 90° ship laps which unfortunately I won’t get to do until Monday when I’m off again.
This time out of respect for Tom I won’t be able to go into any great details or give any measurements as you can find this in Tom’s latest book but I will post some progress photos of how I’m going.
Good news I have found a timber yard 100km away that supplies all the fancy timbers including my favourite American Walnut but I don’t know what their prices are. Hopefully they won’t be expensive but knowing Australia it most probably will be. You yanks are bloody lucky that you have such beautiful timbers at dirt cheap prices.
I will post all the pics as soon as the bench is done.
Cheers.
21 October 2014 at 12:50 pm #119763Again a nice tight fit now that I’m done with the stretches I need to angle 2 legs only at 100° while the other 2 will be left square at 90°. This is pretty ingenious of him the left side will give great support and stability while the other side whilst sawing will not saw into the legs. Something I’ve done plenty of times with the usual saw horse angled legs setup.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.21 October 2014 at 1:02 pm #119794Now the top part was tricky I didn’t know how to approach this considering I never cut an angled shiplap before. Look at the mess I made and a good lesson learned because I was trying to stay away from the line instead of cutting to the line I had to pare away. The results were bad but I had to fix it.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.21 October 2014 at 1:07 pm #119800I speant a good deal of the morning fixing my mistake and now one half of the legs are done time to start on the other side but this time they are going to be easy and quick because they’re not angled. These angled shiplaps aren’t hard as I thought they would be if I didn’t stuff up they would of been done as fast as the other. The trick is saw dead straight and you can’t go wrong and that taes alot of practice. Just don’t give in to it regardless how many weeks or even months it may take you. it will kick in automatically once it registers.
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