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Hello Daniel,
your bench looks promising stout. 🙂
On the photo of the housing it may be the perspective, but in my eyes your housing is square and not angled on one side to match the bevel of the wedge. Did you make a matching recess in the leg? If so, what is the reason for that? I’m just curious.
Edit: Maybe it’s worth a try to make “poor man’s plough plane”: similar to the poor man’s router plane, but with a (fixed) fence in the right distance…
Good luck!
E.
16 June 2018 at 6:27 pm #548566It must be the photo angle or something, the recess is angled to accept the wedge. I’ve come to the bolt up part and I think maybe my rails are too wide. I don’t have anywhere to bolt to at the bottom. Or, to put it another way, drilling for the bolt an inch up from the bottom of my apron drills into the cross member of the leg….. Sitting down to do some thinking about how to get around that. Angled holes maybe? Offset a little…. Need to ponder it for a little bit at this point.
16 June 2018 at 10:42 pm #548575Here’s where I’m at. Not sure if you can see them but I angled the bolts downward. I’ve cheated and used a powered drill. I used Forstner bits to provide a flat for the washer to rest on as well as for the carriage bolt to tighten up against. I failed a bit in the lumber for my aprons in that the front apron is a bit curved away from the bench at the top. I’ll probably overcome this with lag bolts to hold it to the bench top. Otherwise I’ll just angle the front face of the bench top to match the front apron and provide a tight joint. For now, I’ve clamped it and strapped it so it will hopefully learn it’s new shape. I don’t think the wood was quite dry enough when I started it so it’s cupping out and away from the top now that the bottom is bolted tight. I only timed the final housing dado, it took me about 15 minutes to complete.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.28 June 2018 at 3:05 am #548913I fixed the curve of the from apron. Draw me and quarter me in the town square, I used my powered thickness planer to do it. This weekend or two project has been going on 2 months. I have a 4 month old now and he takes up quite a bit of time so that’s my excuse. I’ve got the vise installed now. I need to put some pads on the jaws now and build the wallboard. I have no plough plane so I’ll skip that part and just lay the board into the well and screw up from below to fasten it in place. This vise is from Lee Valley. I think it’s the 7 inch version. The bolts to mount it are not in the optimal location. The rear bolts, like Paul’s vise are slotted so the vise can be adjusted in and out from the bench a small amount but the front holes are so close to the front of the vise that they line up centred in the apron. I had to hack away a significant portion of the apron from behind, then worked for a LONG time overhead (should have flipped it) to get the front two bolts cinched down tight. It’s done at this point though. A ton of sweat and effort to install but it’s now going to be a big help for my future projects. I may even use it to hold the apron as I plane it down to size. Should work well. Here’s a shot of what I’ve got done so far:
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You must be logged in to view attached files.28 June 2018 at 3:07 am #548915Once the well board is in place, I’ll be looking at building a small shelf under the left size like Paul has for my sharpening stones. May even try to install a till for other odds and ends. I have no back saws but I’ll save a spot on the bench for them and may try to get a drawer in as well once Paul shows us a video on how he does it. Pretty sure I could manage on my own but why not follow his lead since I built his bench after all. I’m looking forward to finishing this project because that boat in the background of my last image needs to progress.
28 June 2018 at 3:13 am #548916Looks great Daniel. I laid my well board down and screwed it in as well, it works just fine. I believe a lot of the techniques Paul uses to build the bench are purposely designed to familiarize the unfamiliar with popular wood working skills, but if you don’t need them it’s perfectly ok to do what works for you.
28 June 2018 at 4:01 am #548918My thoughts exactly. And I don’t mind hashing my way through something I’m not entirely familiar with. I build boats, there’s not a straight line or square face anywhere so I’m pretty sure I can handle this. 🙂
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