Posts Tagged With: Workbenches
Spare the Bur and Spoil the Edge
My arms are sore today. Too much of my recent shop activity has been focused on welding or CNC machining, neither of which does much for muscle tone. I need to join a gym I think. After creating several prodigious piles of shavings, I noticed that my #6 was getting dull, it was requiring more force [...]
More Hand Planing
I spent some time this morning working on the the edge of the second beam that will go into my bench top. I had to work the opposite face (against the bench in this picture) enough so it would sit flat and not rock first. You can’t have both the board and the bench wiggling [...]
Workbench Madness
OK, I probably need to have my head examined. Again. Or, perhaps, stop reading books and blog posts about workbenches. Or maybe any book by Christopher Schwarz. I’ve been suffering along with my “craigslist special” workbench. It’s an old Sears Craftsman cabinetmaker bench. It’s shaped like a workbench. It has a tail vise with a [...]
Board Feet on the Incorrectnet
Good grief. I’m planning a workbench project to replace the workbench-shaped object that graces my shop. It’s crooked, too light and has vises that don’t vise. And it’s a topic for another day. Jackel Enterprises has a sale on currently, $2.50 per board foot for recycled Douglas Fir timbers. Here is my line of thinking: [...]
