Workbench Progress
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😀 Beware placing Disney toys near the Lemming chisels on your workbench, because they’re apt to drive them over the edge (Vague reference to a certain Disney nature movie way back when 😀 )
Great thread I am in the process of building my rendition of Paul’s bench as well. Mine will be a shade under 5′ in width and I am going to try the 38″ height mainly because I have a bad back and can not bend for long periods of time with out paying for it. So I am hoping standing upright will be comfortable, if not it will be cut down in increments until I find a happy medium.
Steve
Steve Massie, I live in the great State of Florida, US
Thank you guys for your comments, you’ve been great help. I’m just finishing building my shop and then I’ll start with the bench so i can give my sawhorses and my old door a rest 😉
I am going with a 6′ length and 38″ height with double top and well board. The tops, well and aprons are glued up, now I need to get the legs glued and mortised. Can’t wait to get her done, but time is limited and the tasks to get done unlimited. I have also been purchasing and rehabing planes saws and spokeshaves. Another thing I am excited about is seeing Paul’s upcoming video on sharpening a tenon saw. A question to any of you who have read Paul’s book; is there specific info. to saw types (ie: tenon saw, dovetail saw, etc.) and tooth geometry?
West Virginia, USA
Hey Kevin. Sounds like you’ve gotten the laborious part done with the glue up. Keep at it.
Regarding the sharpening question, he addresses sharpening a rip saw configuration versus a cross-cut. Also how to fix a saw when the gullets or points aren’t even.
Kevin, If I recall the book says anything over 9 tpi sharpen to a ripcut, beleow 9 tpi sharpen to either a rip or a crosscut. I have a 5tpi rip saw 20 inch, a 9 tpi panel 22 inch sharpened to a ripcut, a 26 inch crosscut, a 15 tpi tenon ripcut and a 16 tpi dovetail ripcut. I just resharpened all my saws the other day 🙂
-Canada
I love seeing these benches coming together. So inspiring to know that soon they will be filled with tools and projects. Perhaps kids and grandkids, friends in woodworking, family and such. This is my dream coming true and the bench is really nice!!!
I have 3 26″ saws originally rip. 2 at 9ppi and 1 at6ppi an 8″ back saw at 14 ppi and a 14″ back saw at 11ppi. Looking to make the wooden saw vice in paul’s blog and sharpen all of these soon. I do not have any experience sharpening and little with using hand saws. I am a fine finish carpenter by trade and am looking to make handwork into a hobby at home to get away from the noise and dust.
West Virginia, USA
Paul, I want to personally thank you for handing on your knowledge and for the drive you very obviously have in doing it.
West Virginia, USA
I made a saw vice using just a couple pieces of 1×3 I had laying around. I used a piece of leather screwed to attach them together at one end. It works great and I can clamp my long hand saws in them easily. After sharpening all my saws I dreamed up another project for my workroom, I need a stool to sit down when sharpening saws 🙂
-Canada
The bench is a platform for the all powerful vice that will make life so much easier. I have been coming up with some creative clamping systems for the various projects I have been working on.
West Virginia, USA
I think the workbench is the first thing someone should make, it makes wood working so much easier. Next is some tool storage of some sort. Mine are in rubbermaid tubs but am planning on making a chest soon.
-Canada
I agree as far as the bench being rather important. Right now my tools are hanging on nails in the wall and in kitchen wall cabinets I scored from a job I worked on. I have been wanting to make a tool chest.
West Virginia, USA
Thanks Paul. Seeing how simple the design of yours is got me motivated to build it. I finally got the dad-gum vise installed. It’s a Wood River large front vise. I’m usually not negative publicly about tools and stuff, but that vise gave me fits installing. It’s well built, but the guide bushings are VERY difficult to install in perfect alignment with the guide rods. There is essentially zero room for error. If the wood screws that hold the bushings in place pull the bushing in the slightest amount off of perfect center, the vice binds. With that said, the design of their small front vice (no seperate guide bushings) should make installation a snap. So I’m not dogging Wood River as a whole, just that vise design.
Im gluing up the wood for the vise face this morning and for the handle I’m going to turn on the lathe. I can’t wait until it’s done so I can start working on a bench hook, and the shooting board. Then on to building a dresser.
Thanks for sharing your skills Paul. Thanks also to the rest of the group for the help and encouragement.
Thanks you everyone here and through YouTube and emails for thanking me. This passing on stuff has become increasingly important so keep watching and asking question. Remember the dumbest question is the one that’s never asked and it’s also the hardest one to answer.
Also, we are planning an up to date online broadcast on saw sharpening that will really help to simplify the task. Our methods are radically simple and radically different than anything anyone has ever done before. Please tell your friends and spread the word so that the woodworking masterclass family can continue growing.
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