Bart Leetch
03-04-2003, 8:47 PM
First off let me say I do use power tools. but just lately my chisels & rabbit plane have been seeing a lot of use fine tuning tenons for the bench I am building. I just fit up my first tenon & it is nice & tight. I plan on making some bench bolts by using some brass rod I have & threading it for 1/2" bolts.
This bench won't be traditional in that it will have 1 3/4" worth of plywood & masonite top edge banded for a top & be 36" front to back & 5' long I am setting it up for a twin screw vice on the end to be installed later & it will have a wood vice on each end on the front.
Do to the smallness of my shop it will be used as an out-feed table for my table saw too.
The tool base under it will come next. It will more than likely be 3/4" plywood with dado construction & a face frame with solid wood drawer fronts.
The one innovation I have come up with to take the place of the tool tray is that the sides of the tool case will extend up past what would normally be the top of a tool case when it is lower than the bottom of the bench top so there is a place to put tools under the top. This will allow me to install double extended glides & a shallow drawer to be pulled out to put often used tools in.
This will be a great help when I remember that last cut I should have made before I started fine tuning with hand tools & assembly.
No it probably won't be a fancy piece of shop furniture but it will be a work bench for wood working.
This bench won't be traditional in that it will have 1 3/4" worth of plywood & masonite top edge banded for a top & be 36" front to back & 5' long I am setting it up for a twin screw vice on the end to be installed later & it will have a wood vice on each end on the front.
Do to the smallness of my shop it will be used as an out-feed table for my table saw too.
The tool base under it will come next. It will more than likely be 3/4" plywood with dado construction & a face frame with solid wood drawer fronts.
The one innovation I have come up with to take the place of the tool tray is that the sides of the tool case will extend up past what would normally be the top of a tool case when it is lower than the bottom of the bench top so there is a place to put tools under the top. This will allow me to install double extended glides & a shallow drawer to be pulled out to put often used tools in.
This will be a great help when I remember that last cut I should have made before I started fine tuning with hand tools & assembly.
No it probably won't be a fancy piece of shop furniture but it will be a work bench for wood working.