Tour of the LVL Workbench

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3 July 2013 at 12:10 pm #14413

Ken
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Interesting 😉

3 July 2013 at 12:18 pm #14414

Mark Armstrong
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I was going to say something but I wont eek
Nice bench though ;0

Dagenham, Essex, England

3 July 2013 at 3:24 pm #14420

Steve Follis
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So, that’s all it takes to get a table dance out of Megan? Just show her your workbench!

Memphis, Tennessee

3 July 2013 at 3:40 pm #14423

Greg Merritt
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I’m sure that it is stable and strong but…it would be difficult to build with hand tools. Resin is not tool edge friendly.

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3 July 2013 at 8:14 pm #14439

robinhc
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Greg Merritt wrote:

it would be difficult to build with hand tools. Resin is not tool edge friendly

Yea, I wonder about that. It used to take me forever to sharpen and the idea that the resin in plywood or LVL would dull my tools quicker worried me. But now it takes hardly any time at all to sharpen. Does resin do anything to the tools other than dull them more quickly?

Also, this could be the excuse I am looking for with my wife. “Honey, I need to buy some more hand planes so I can switch to a sharp one when one gets dull. And you know how fast that LVL dulls that edge!” 🙂

Robin ... Richmond, Virginia, USA

3 July 2013 at 8:38 pm #14442

Greg Merritt
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I’ve only worked with LVL beams twice helping with building room additions. The LVL beams that we used caused sparks to fly off the circular saw blade. They were very, very hard. The structure of the beam was more like chipboard than like plywood.

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