A New Saw Bench
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22 October 2014 at 9:09 am #119906
So what I managed to finish today was two cleats, two aprons and a fence which I will hopefully shape tomorrow. Unfortunately I have to work night shift tomorrow so I only have until midday to work before I head off to bed.
So by next week this bench will be finished God willing.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.22 October 2014 at 1:17 pm #119939I have been reading this with great interest and and
Admiration of your preciseness and attention to detail.
I also like some of the fine tools you are using. 😉22 October 2014 at 1:58 pm #119963Thank you Mark I appreciate your kind words.
I’m just a sucker for hand tools.
22 October 2014 at 2:26 pm #119981Nice work. All looks pretty neat to me. I see you own a couple of the Veritas wonder pup/dog clamps. What do you think of them? I might need one or two for my next assembly table.
22 October 2014 at 4:56 pm #120017Wow! What a great pictorial! Thanks for sharing. Looking like a great build.
22 October 2014 at 7:06 pm #120039Hi mate
Looking GOOD a first rate job.
Iam finishing up the kerfing plane its walnut and red oak The blade came yesterday its 12 pt cross cut I also recived a bow saw blade 2 x 15 3/4 its punched at 10 ppi rip the frame is started its white oak. I wish I could get you some walnut. But the cost to ship would be a killer.
Good luck
Frankj22 October 2014 at 8:39 pm #120051Thanks Micheal for your question they have their ups and down, for 1/2″ and greater stock they do their job but for anything smaller for planing purposes they don’t for obvious reasons. I think if you can afford a traditional tail vice you will be much better off.
Some people can work without a tail vice I for one find it extremely frustrating, I’ve been saying for years one of these days I will make myself a traditional european work bench but I never get around to it.
22 October 2014 at 8:42 pm #120052Dave I know what you mean about limited space but you should make room for a saw bench.
22 October 2014 at 9:06 pm #120054Frank it’s good to hear from you, the kerfing plane is an excellent tool I haven’t gotten around to making one yet but will when I’m ready to make a framing saw.
Ah yes the American Black Walnut such beauty, such elegance not a great deal of people like this type of timber I’ve never looked at one in person only in photographs, they say it’s quite knotty but I have seen only but a few knots in pictures.
I’ve seen on the net in the states they cost about $3 a board foot I don’t know this tye of measurement as we use only metric here even though I do work in imperial for the simple purpose of educating myself to be proficient in both systems of measurement.
But anyway $3 is bloody cheap. I finally found a timber yard 150km away from where I live that sells quality timbers both local and American species. Everything is roughsawn nothing planed which is just what I want. The Walnut though is quite expensive at $33 for a lineal metre that’s 39 3/8″ 200×25 (8″x1″). I did however find a great substitute Tasmanian Blackwood which cost a little less at $26 LM. The price of timbers goes up every 3 months so say’s one lumber yard I regularly buy from but it my be only their prices are going up.
Did anyone find out what type of timber it is I’m using in the later pics.
I’d love to find walnut at 3 dollars a bf, it usually runs around 8-10 dollars a bf here. Not so much knotty lumber either and I can get 1/4 sawn too but you pay the premium for it. Walnut, cherry and sapele mahogany are my favourite woods to use but only for important projects i.e. things I want to keep forever. my toolbox, some small boxes, small keepsakes etc. I will build some furniture out of walnut and cherry this winter but they are going to be small pieces like end tables etc. The cost of hardwoods here in Canada is high but our pine, fir and spruce is very inexpensive.
22 October 2014 at 11:13 pm #120057http://www.hearnehardwoods.com/hardwoods/pricelist/pricelist.html
Maybe you could explain it to me cause I don’t understand hw to convert a board foot into metres
1 board foot is a board 1 inch thick by 12 inch wide by 12 inch long
1 cubic meter of wood is 423 board feet according to this http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/EN/units-converter/volume-lumber/4-1/board_feet-cubic_meter/
That kinda sounds off but anyway, those prices are about right, it depends on the grade, width, how its sawn etc. Wider boards fetch a premium as does how its sawn. You can find lesser quality wood in narrow widths much less expensive but its typically very knotty, twisted etc.
23 October 2014 at 12:24 am #120059Fantastic thans Dave now why I couldn’t find an explanation on google as simple as that. Good on you mate your a gem.
The Cherry I found here in this new lumber yard is aweful and they want premium prices of $40 per metre which works out to be if my calculations are correct $12.30 BF. It’s 6 7/8 wide and an 1″ thick and knotty, so as you can see why small cabinet shops in Australia go under or are forced to work with MDF.
A good substitute I found for Cherry is Hoop pine, it is a softwood but much better quality than Radiata which is a New Zealand species commonly used in mass produced furniture. Once not long ago you could buy Radiata for just under $10 you would most probably pay around $5 or $6 in the US now the degenerates called Bunnings and Masters are charging $28 a metre a clear rip off. Hoop pine on the other hand I paid only a few months ago $8.96 from a lumber yard now it’s gone up to $11.26 and it’s becoming scarce due to logging restrictions and export.
With prices sky rocketing through the roof I don’t see a forseeable future for small cabinet shops like myself, with the addition of large furniture stores who import their products from China and Indonesia it is impossible to compete with them mainly due to the lack of knoweledge the general populace has on furniture construction. To them if it looks good and it’s cheap buy it, another famous little trick these stores like to use is n deposit, no interest for 24 months so they get their premium prices while still offfeering rubbish.
A classic example of why Australian manufacturers are going under, I was reading in an Autralian woodworkers magazine. It was cheaper for them to be buy a glass table for a project they were working on than it was to buy a glass top from a manufacturer by half. They saved 50% can you imagine that, this is what we have done to ourselves by importing from China.
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