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23 April 2020 at 6:44 pm #658372
I built Roy Underhill’s pole lathe a couple of years back. It can be used to make drawer pulls, with a bit of further ingenuity. Here’s the article from Popular Woodworking Magazine that I followed.
https://www.popularwoodworking.com/aug16/roy-underhills-double-spring-pole-lathe/
Works great but does take some practice to get your hands with the tools and your foot making the rotation.23 March 2019 at 8:22 pm #555662Thanks for the thought. In the end, I just want to get working on the bench so I put 3/16 thick bolts through the jaw liners and through the vice jaw. I countersunk the inner holes so the bolt heads didn’t protrude and we’ll see. The jaw liners are a couple of very hard quartersawn pieces of cherry just under an inch thick so should be good for a while.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.23 March 2019 at 1:37 am #555655Hey d,
I just put my workbench together this weekend. Like Paul, I used secondhand 2-by construction lumber for most of it. My aprons are 2 2x6s glued up which also ended up narrower than Paul’s aprons so, like you, not wide enough for coach/carriage bolts. So yes I used 2 lag bolts through each leg to attach my aprons. If you check Paul’s video he offset the lag bolts to miss the tenons. There should be enough thickness on either side of the tenon to drive the bolts in.
As for the wedges, I’ve no opinion. They won’t be seen either way.
And I’m super happy with my new workbench. Here’s a pic of it with my old bench behind it.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.15 November 2017 at 8:06 pm #367824Not necessarily the best option but… Another possibility is used when gluing together boards for a wide surface like a tabletop. Cut the boards in half lengthwise and glue them back together but flip one of them so that the grain goes up on one while the grain goes down on the next. this should make the (probably inevitable) cupping cancel itself out.
15 November 2017 at 7:47 pm #367787Fire starters is a Great Idea! something to put out if you sell stuff at church bazaars etc. I’ve read that putting sawdust(at least) in the compost is not really a good idea since, in order for it to truly compost, you need to match it with green matter at a rate of around one part brown(wood dust/chips) to 10 parts green(leaves, veg. garbage, etc.). So altho I do have a garden I usually have been throwing the dust in the trash. Perhaps I should rethink this.
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