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Xavi, you can use your router to make grooves, you would have to carefully cut the grooves with a saw or chisel then chisel down to depth at which point you can use your router plane to smooth out and even the depth of the groove.
A plough plane does all this very quickly with minimal effort but there is more than one way to skin the cat or in this case cut the groove 🙂
3 April 2013 at 6:17 am #10419Thank you very much. I see. there is always more than one solution. I think for now I will solve with the router plane and my next purchase will be the Plough plane!.
Best.
21 April 2013 at 1:42 am #11191Add another Paul Sellers-inspired workbench to the rolls. Finally finished mine after about a month’s work, and it is a joy to use. Now I’m on to the other projects from Paul’s book, then to the Master Class projects. Thanks so much Paul for putting your knowledge out in a format that so many of us can learn from. And thanks to all of you folks for the constant inspiration that really shows what can come from following through on Paul’s lessons.
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Some changes to the workbench top, I have removed the centre section and glued the two slabs together. The tool holder will now be at the back. The underside has been planed nice and flat, the top side has been planed flat, I will finish plane it when I have my vise, and the top is bolted down.
Cheers 😉
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You must be logged in to view attached files.1 May 2013 at 10:16 pm #11511nice job with the benches lads.mine still in progress .what finish did ye apply?
Hey guys,
I finished planed the workbench top to today. So how flat is flat? With a good straight edge, and a set of feeler gauges I can’t get a 1.5 thou feeler gauge anywhere under it across the width, or along the length. British standard is three thou, so I will call it flat and do no more.Cheers 😉
5 May 2013 at 2:57 pm #11653Well Ken with all those knots I commend you to get to such a good tolerance. 😉
Thanks Mark,
Yeah the knots were a problem, but I had the blade razor sharp and set for a very fine cut. It took ages, and I still got a little tear out. I’m not going to worry about that though. Still pleased with it though, a couple of pics. 🙂Attachments:
You must be logged in to view attached files.6 May 2013 at 2:05 am #11669Fantastic! If your like me…you will shed a small tear the first time you scar it. Now I just repeat to myself a statement that I heard Paul use at the Woodworking Show…”my bench is not a piece of furniture.”
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