Workbench – Legs – Problems
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Thanks, Greg!
The other H frame is done.
The other H frame is done. (2)
Nice. Very, very nice.
Your joinery is looking good 😉
It’s coming along nicely Emilio, joinery looks great.
Emilio, it looks like you did a great job on preparing the legs! Planing and squaring them – Nice! Also, the haunch joinery looks good, IMHO.
I will be doing the leg frames soon also and I will be coming back to this thread for inspiration!
Thank you very much, Carlos, for encouraging me! I’m looking forward to seeing your H frames!
(I noticed – if I’m not wrong – you’ve used rounded-edge pieces for your bench top. Based on my own – little, actually – experience rounded-edge pieces require a lot of extra-work and make measuring very, very hard if you want to use a combination square.
I’ve used pieces with sharp edges for the legs and just made each face smoother. Sharp edges helped me a lot.)
Take your time 20 mins not too bad for pretty big mortise holes. Try and strive for quality not speed.
I also think once you have bench up and running it will be a grate help to securely hold your work on a stable platform the speed will come.
This really is looking very good.
I hope mine will be as nice when I come to doing my H-frames in a bit.
I’m recycling a decking for this project. The legs will be five decking boards of 4′ x 3/4′ planed down and glued up.
Hoping that’ll be as strong as two 2x4s glued together. Certainly a lot more planing to do this way, but it uses up some decent wood which has come for free.
Bondi,
Laminating more together shouldn’t be any weaker than 2x4s. Probably stronger rather than anything. Good effort with the recycling of the decking. Great to everyones benches coming together!Thank you, Phil!
Emilio, I hadn’t given much thought to the rounded corners..Thank you for this tip! They are a little rounded, yes. Some seem mitred. They are not sharp, square corners, so I will have to take my time to make sure I register my combo square correctly for the legs. I will have to study this. I don’t want to have come this far after doing the tops and then blow it on the legs!
I am glad we are exchanging ideas! …One thing I can suggest when building the tops is get the best quality lumber for your top slab(s)…as straight as possible, no twist. (But you probably know this already). Another is, when flattening the top, use your combo square straight edge to locate the high spots and mark an ‘x’ with a pencil the exact location of the high spot (the fulcrum between two low areas). Then take one shaving with the plane. Only one. That should get you flat to a few thou of an inch.
Carlos, thank you!
You’re right. Marking high spots will help me to locate the areas that have to be reduced to the level of the rest of the board before smoothing the entire board.@ Carlos: we all are helping each other! you’re right: it’s beautiful!
@ Bondi: I’m sure your H-frames will be ok!
@ Philip: thank you!
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