Rob Luter
08-11-2007, 5:30 PM
Greetings to all,
I'll soon be opening a project to improve my workbench. I'm planning on building a traditional style bench similar to the Holtzapffel bench (Link: http://www.woodworking-magazine.com/blog/content/binary/Holtzapffel4-21.jpg) that Chris Schwarz brought to the Sindelar Tool Meet this past June (Link:http://www.woodworking-magazine.com/blog/See+John+Sindelars+Astonishing+Tool+Collection+Jun e+910.aspx).
I plan on fabricating the top from a three layer sandwich consisting of two layers of 5/4 plywood I use at work topped with a 5/4 thick QS White Oak Tabletop I picked up at a surplus lumber sale a local custom furniture maker had. I'll skirt the whole top with oak as well. It should be pretty solid (and heavy!) when I'm done. It seems almost sacrilegious to use QSWO for a bench top but it was cheaper than the maple butcher block slabs I priced at any number of places. I expect it will look pretty sweet too.
The dilemma is what to use to laminate everything together to create a solid slab. PVA? Epoxy? Screws? Other?
All input is welcome.
I'll soon be opening a project to improve my workbench. I'm planning on building a traditional style bench similar to the Holtzapffel bench (Link: http://www.woodworking-magazine.com/blog/content/binary/Holtzapffel4-21.jpg) that Chris Schwarz brought to the Sindelar Tool Meet this past June (Link:http://www.woodworking-magazine.com/blog/See+John+Sindelars+Astonishing+Tool+Collection+Jun e+910.aspx).
I plan on fabricating the top from a three layer sandwich consisting of two layers of 5/4 plywood I use at work topped with a 5/4 thick QS White Oak Tabletop I picked up at a surplus lumber sale a local custom furniture maker had. I'll skirt the whole top with oak as well. It should be pretty solid (and heavy!) when I'm done. It seems almost sacrilegious to use QSWO for a bench top but it was cheaper than the maple butcher block slabs I priced at any number of places. I expect it will look pretty sweet too.
The dilemma is what to use to laminate everything together to create a solid slab. PVA? Epoxy? Screws? Other?
All input is welcome.