What did you do in your workshop today ?

[Droogs]

Finished up today, but built over the last week fom rough board and built using hand tools only apart from some pilot holes made with a drill/driver. Maple laminated top with Redwood base and sacraficial lipping. 2000mm x 610mm and 39" high. 151 face vice with a 52 1/2 tail vice. Split top with an oak insert to act as a stop when planning alon with 20 19mm bench dog holes (not fun to do), just a shelf to fit on the bottom but no rush as rock solid and still need to paint the workshop

 

[MarkDennehy]

Tidy. Top's a solid (laminated) slab?

 

[Droogs]

The top's made from laminated 4" x 2" maple (bought 1/2m3 rough sawn as part of the big wood auction from last year) planed and glued up with PU. It has a splti/groove lengthways with a loose oak insert that when reversed sits 10mm proud to act as a stop for scrub planing boards. it has a 3/4" redwood face lip that's just screwed on to be easily replaced

 

[skipdiver]

Lots of sanding. Very boring and tomorrow is painting. Even more boring.

 

[memzey]

Finished up today, but built over the last week fom rough board and built using hand tools only apart from some pilot holes made with a drill/driver. Maple laminated top with Redwood base and sacraficial lipping. 2000mm x 610mm and 39" high. 151 face vice with a 52 1/2 tail vice. Split top with an oak insert to act as a stop when planning alon with 20 19mm bench dog holes (not fun to do), just a shelf to fit on the bottom but no rush as rock solid and still need to paint the workshop

Nice. What have you done with that end vice? Is it on upside down?

 

[Benchwayze]

Put some Festool batteries on charge, for my shiny new CXS Li 2.6 Set Cordless Screwdriver. Well I can't take it with me. Sorry about the gloat!

 

[Droogs]

Nice. What have you done with that end vice? Is it on upside down?

Photo was taken just before the vice was bolted on, was waiting for the extra pair of hands (away making a cuppa) to hold it in place

 

[BearTricks]

I've managed to snatch about 12' x 3' of oak worktop offcuts from a relative's garage so they're going to keep me and everyone I know in end grain chopping boards for the foreseeable future.

Today though I'm doing a practice run on some beech since I've never done one before. Found out that my bandsaw is somewhere between half a mil and a mil out of square no matter what I do. I think rather than needing adjusting the cheap table is flexing ever so slightly when I put pressure on it. I've been finishing everything off on the hand plane but I might make myself a replacement one just for this job.

Edit: Half way through the day and waiting for a glue up to dry, I think I might do some more work on a stool, draw up some plans for a dressing table for the girlfriend, and sharpen everything I can find. I thought my planes were sharp enough, but I managed to get one so sharp it was taking translucent shavings that disintegrated when I touched them and now nothing else seems good enough.

 

[MarkDennehy]

Put a first coat of paint on the sawhorses (the boiled linseed oil wasn't holding up too well outdoors). Then put two coats of paint on the four-year-old, he put another coat of paint on himself, and I brushed out the handprints from the first coat on the sawhorses and spent the next while cleaning up.

I'm starting to think this whole "finishing room" has nothing to do with airflow or dust or anything else, but is mainly a way to stop four-year-olds getting near the paint...

 

[skipdiver]

Another of those pleasant days with the doors open and sun shining. One day cricket on the radio and no machinery going. Bit of sanding, bit of painting and some assembly at the bench.

 

[DiscoStu]

Having bought a couple of the Aldi clamps recently I made a rack for them and put that up.

Quite pleased with the result as it was just quickly done from scraps.

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[MattRoberts]

Nice, nothing like a good bit of clamp storage!

 

[MarkDennehy]

My dictionary's definition of "a couple of" is in need of updating

 

[DiscoStu]

They were such good value for money £4.99 for 2!


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[Homerjh]

they any good? saw them but wasnt sure how good they would be so left them.

 

[MarkDennehy]

Wouldn't clamp very heavily with them, the end pieces are plastic and you can start to feel them flex quite early on putting any pressure on them, but for quick "grab this for a second while I get a real clamp" sort of things, they're grand. Or, I suppose, for anything small that didn't need a lot of clamping pressure. And for the price...

 

[MarkDennehy]

I planed the knot, and the knot won.
Best crucible cast record blade too. My poor #7

 

[MarkDennehy]

But at least it wasn't chipped in vain

One (seriously messy, but with good squeeze-out on top and bottom) glued-up workbench top. Or at least most of it, there's another board to go on either side and the aprons as well, but they go on seperately because Reasons. That's the legs and the top done now, I'll leave this to cure for a few days (because work's manic so why not, and besides I have a vice to clean and play with) and then get started with planing the underside and doing the leg and apron joinery.

 

[TFrench]

Made a rack for my lathe stuff. No more searching through a box for the chisel I'm after!
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[monkeybiter]

Made a rack for my lathe stuff. No more searching through a box for the chisel I'm after!

They'll all fall out the side at that angle! :wink: