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re setting the blades a thou or so above the outfeed - I had a read and the guy knows his onions. But unless I missed it he doesn't explain why he does that. I have always set dead level to the outfeed and my problem is it works fine for me, so I'm reluctant to change without understanding why...

here we are then: Beech end-stop in Record - do we all do that? Use it a lot: Leg vice beginning to become smooth. The sliding deadman moves very nicely... imagine a big door, 2 hands holding that, right foot moves deadman to where you want it, still got your left knee to close the leg-vice...

(aha - just realised the above belongs in 'leftovers bench' thread... repetition, damn) Agree with pretty much everything :) in that Kind of mood having finished the small bench. Yes, I imagine the 'Roubo' style to be totally hand-tool focussed, but I can't think of much it couldn't do with...

re magnets Jerome - may just be me (to be ignored then) - but I try and keep them away from the 'shop as anything that becomes magnetic eventually finds bits of iron / steel stuck to it... I just hate that. I do sometimes use fine steel wool on things and it makes very fine steel dust... crops...

sorry finished bench pics moved to 'leftovers bench' thread. Got muddled :oops:

Nails - not yer furniture grade stuff. Green structural, brick base built already, an Edwardian sun loggia complete with period stained glass, slate roof etc... just can't face moving the oak nearer the workshop and need to do it before spring kicks off. If it starts to dry much the whole thing...

Ah yes, it's an olive oily streak through the board, comes through the front lower down. It does look odd, but I like the more marked pieces. The back laminate on the top (oak) has a cracking big knot in it... looks great.

Aiden, that's good though. If you didn't do that you would need to change the blades (being blunt like).

Tommo - I think I follow this. So Jim has started a club called the Tool Pad club, and it costs £8.10 to join? Is that one year or lifetime? The only bit I am confused about is the spare jaw. Is that because Jim talks a lot?

Hi Jumps - no, the oak (400kg of it... I'll come back to that :wink: ) is sitting on the drive!! Get on over and test this bench, get your banksia nuts and help me shift some oak. Said I'd come back to it.

sorry that ended high n dry... upload or lose it and start again! So, the hole through leg was zero clearance too - 28mm. The screw kind of cut it's own thread first time - but nil sideways slack, a good thing I felt. The beam has a beech face at 90 degrees, so the grain strength is in the...

That's it Skills - I have a burnisher that will be used as the pin - leg vices are quite basic - you adjust the range by moving the pin to a different hole. But in practice they have some lattitude so the first or second hole would do most of what I ever need. A leg vice with a bench hanging off...

I admit I am fascinated by benches. Recently did a big one with a wooden-screw twin-screw face vice, but I really wanted to explore leg vices. So I have just done one and want to share what I discovered, what I tried and how it came out. First though, I am not the first to make one and this...

3rd attempt (hammer) input all copy, images, submit...logged out, wiped. I know I should prep it off-site then paste, but really... this is not my connection. It's a server-side issue for sure. Yes Jim, I have a bench fascination as you know. Fact is this one was really all about the leg vice -...

Good question indeed. I have a Scheppach 250ci... but the issue is the same. An awful lot is written about setting planer blades, and many retailers will sell you jigs to 'help'. But in all my experience it's easy and does not require a fancy jig. The basis is to accept the outfeed table is the...

Yes indeed Scouse and Andy... we get to use some tools that were born before us and will outlast us. Its history is greater than I am - just happy to be the guardian for a while.

Ah Tony - turns out it isn't (a dirty all rounder). I used that as an excuse to make it, but it's too nice now. So I'll just have to make a dirty bench next (but might run out of space). Time to move house I suspect. (For house read workshop.) Truth was I needed to make one leg vice, in order to...

Thanks **** - a Mac user too, I'll do that in future. Need to sort my pic hosting too, as a part of the ever-improving service I offer to the forum :lol: :lol:

First and quite rightly, 'widows' are the ones feeling left out... no gender implied etc. Good, now to the point. Suddenly today my wife said 'is there a site for woodworking widows?'. Maybe there is, but how about UKW adding a forum tab 'Workshop Widows'. My 'widow' knows a very lot about...

Hi Mark - no probs, I have a tin too, and I agree in this climate it's a slow process. Did a No6 plane a bit ago, and put it in the oven at 60 degrees for about 1 hr... good trick, recommended but keep it 60 or lower otherwise it will bubble. Daughter came by that evening and said "Daddy, do you...