2015 – Workbench TWO

After 10 years of building my shop and my skills and my craft taking a turn to more hand tools it was time for a new more functional workbench. The story is told in day by day blogs listed in the index below. Day 1 – Milling stock for the first of 4 top sections […]

Workbench Two – Day 3

Day 3 was exciting.  The first slab of 4 was ready to come out of the clamps.  The first process was to get the slab through the jointer and planer to get 4 sides square. The comments on the pictures really tell the story. The glue, while very different from my standard Titebond II or […]

Workbench TWO – Day 2

Day 1 I milled the first 4 boards for the bench top.  These were ready to be glued.   Day 2 was the glue up.  This was very interesting and I learned what worked and what did not work. I am using TiteBond Extended glue.  This give me 15 minutes open time and 25 minutes working […]

Workbench TWO – Day 1

So I am finally building a new workbench.  My original bench has served well.  Solid core door with two vises. The new bench is “roubo” style bench.  I was inspired by the Chris Schwarz’s first workbench book and all of the woodworking community activity following. A few descriptive items: 250 board feet of “soft” 8/4 […]