{"id":8,"date":"2006-12-30T14:15:23","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T21:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/?p=8"},"modified":"2011-01-03T19:45:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T02:45:11","slug":"new-tool-in-the-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/2006\/12\/30\/new-tool-in-the-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"new tool in the shop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It seems like only yesterday that Stu Weibel, Thom Hickey and myself split a 500 bd\/ft haul of 8\/4 hard maple. Upon deeper reflection, however, I guess it was more like eight years ago. go figure… \ud83d\ude41 Well, two moves, two jobs, and one (and a half) kids later, I’ve finally used the last of it and completed my workbench<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The legs and benchtop are made from the 8\/4 hard maple, the carcus is baltic birch and the front doors, drawers and trim are lyptus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Scott Landis’s the workbench book<\/a> (which in my personal library along with Nakashima<\/a>, etc. is cross cataloged under ‘spiritualy moving’ and ‘woodworking porn’) was a big inpiration. The front vise is a Jorgenson and for the end vise I opted for the less traditional Veritas twin screw<\/a>. In the end I went with the Veritas brass bench dogs as well rather then the traditional square dogs due to ease of use and personal preference.<\/p>\n

The most (technically) difficult part in putting this together by far was installing the tail vise. The twin screw design is a very good one, but the instructions are … errr … just lacking enough in detail that your pretty much assured to screw things up at least once. The most (mentally) difficult part was drilling the bench dog holes. It took a while to convince myself that drilling into a table top on purpose was a good thing to do.<\/p>\n

Overall, I’m very pleased with the results. I do a considerable amount of hand planing, scraping and carving. To do this now on a good bench, its hard to imagine being without one. I can quickly see this becoming my favorite tool in my shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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