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My son Seamus bought me the 10 inch Eclipse vise for Father’s day a few years ago. Once I had it installed in my bench I could not lift the bench upright on my own. I had to screw a 2×4 to one end of the bench to use as a lever to get it into an upright position.
The floor is flat, the frame does not rock from side to side at all and looks to be square. I tried placing the top on the floor and it has the same 1/4 inch twist to it. I think when I glued all seven boards together at once they might have shifted in the clamps. One of the clamps broke as I was tightening it. I did the glue-up in our living room on a large plastic sheet where it is a lot warmer than in the shed and had to move the bundle back outside to keep my wife happy. The next top I make will be glued up slowly, maybe start by gluing two together, let it set and then adding a single board and letting that set and so on. I will be more careful when choosing the lumber this time as the boards I did use have quite a few knots in the outside edges. When I bought them I was only paying attention to how straight they were. The aprons have some loose knots at one end and look like they were cut from the same tree. When I bought them I was only paying attention to flatness. The fact that it was about 15 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in the outdoor lumber yard may have had something to do with my haste in selecting the boards I took home.
I had that same plane in my Watching list. The photos don’t tell much but from what I can see of the plane body it looks good. At least the seller didn’t try to gouge you for the cost of shipping. It was an incredible eye opening experience the first time I used a plane that I tuned following Paul’s instructions. Good luck with the new (to you) tool.
Good for you. I’m investigating a woodworking course on building a Shaker table held evenings in a local high school. I’ll find out later today what the course entails. I’ve always shied away from woodworking schools because of the emphasis on power tools, especially the table saw. Too many close calls on a table saw but at least I still have ten fingers to count on. Good luck.
[quote quote=25586]Hi guys,<BR>I’ve now got to a point where I have far to much wood that needs to be organized. Anybody got any ideas for wood storage. I want to make some kind of racking that goes halfway along the back of my shed. So I still have room in the corner for my toolbox. Which will eventualy be raised and on wheels.<BR>Cheers<BR>Joe [/quote]
I have a rack that hangs from the ceiling of my small shop, I’ll post a photo later today or tomorrow if you’re interested. It’s made of 2×4’s (USA) glued and screwed to the rafters. I needed someplace indoors to store wood and off of the walls as the walls were (are) not finished at the time.
“Swedish Carving Techniques” by Wille Sundqvist is available again in an English language edition after being out of print for a long time. Country Workshops has it in stock:
http://www.countryworkshops.org/books.html
I have, somewhere, a dowel plate somewhat like the one in the video that I got from Garrett Wade when they had a retail store in Manhattan. It works OK, I only used dowel rods in it. The plate had conical holes in it with cuts made in the perimeter of the smaller exit holes so you wound up with a grooved dowel. My problem years ago was getting dowel holes to line up properly. Which led to much pounding to get parts to mate. If you have a drill press you could probably make one easy enough.
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The bench looks great. I’d like to add a tail vise to my bench when I finally get it done. I think I’ll be using the vise that I took off of my Dad’s workbench that was in the basement of the house he lived in. That house which is in NYC was flooded in the so called “Superstorm Sandy” last year. I got the vise off a couple of months before the storm. -
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