Tom Cancelleri Posted October 16, 2015 Report Share Posted October 16, 2015 Brian, As a suggestion, you might wanna make sure the grain is going in the same direction across the entire slab so when you run it through the planer you don't get any tear out. As for the vise installation, it's all on their site. They don't send it as part of the bench maker's package. Installation is pretty simple. If you have questions, let me know it's still fresh in my head. Also the guild plans won't be a problem with the exception of the criss cross install. Are you doing knock down or draw boring the entire bench? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgreenb Posted October 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2015 Brian, As a suggestion, you might wanna make sure the grain is going in the same direction across the entire slab so when you run it through the planer you don't get any tear out. As for the vise installation, it's all on their site. They don't send it as part of the bench maker's package. Installation is pretty simple. If you have questions, let me know it's still fresh in my head. Also the guild plans won't be a problem with the exception of the criss cross install. Are you doing knock down or draw boring the entire bench?Thanks Tom. I did try to pay attention to grain direction, but there were a few boards that had defects along the edge that I would prefer be on the bottom of the bench, so I had no choice there. Hopefully with very light passes through the planer I can avoid tearout. I've printed out all the vise instructions here at work and I've already read through - seems pretty straightforward like you said. I am planning to draw bore the entire bench. Can't imagine ever having to knock this thing down, and if I do, just removing the slabs should be sufficient. As a wise man recently said in the chat room, if you can't lift the base without the slabs on it, you're a total <censored>. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Cancelleri Posted October 16, 2015 Report Share Posted October 16, 2015 Lifting that base is a chore based on the enormity I treated it like a squat rack, stood in the middle grabbed the stretchers and stood up. Was a fun balancing act. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bgreenb Posted October 17, 2015 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted October 17, 2015 Got the domino mortises done tonight. My forearm is tired. But what a sweet machine. Glue up tomorrow! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted October 17, 2015 Report Share Posted October 17, 2015 Good progress! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim DaddyO Posted October 17, 2015 Report Share Posted October 17, 2015 Great job, still watching..... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgreenb Posted October 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2015 Thanks guys!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sac Posted October 17, 2015 Report Share Posted October 17, 2015 Love my domino.. Wish I would have had it when I did my bench. Looks great! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Eric. Posted October 17, 2015 Popular Post Report Share Posted October 17, 2015 That's the best lie for a tired forearm I've heard yet. Gonna use that one next time. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post -MattK- Posted October 17, 2015 Popular Post Report Share Posted October 17, 2015 That's the best lie for a tired forearm I've heard yet. Gonna use that one next time. Nice try. "Playing with your domino" still sounds dirty, Eric 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgreenb Posted October 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2015 Behold! A glue up!That was....stressful. That's a lot of surface area to get covered in glue, not to mention getting it all together and clamped up before the glue sets. Glad it's done. Gonna go to town with a cabinet scraper later on to get all the glue off. The surfaces look pretty flush except in a few spots that I'll hit with my jack plane. Gonna let it sit overnight and then do the final surfacing tomorrow.In the meantime, I built the dog hole jig and rough milled the dog hole strip and the 3/8" filler strip or whatever it's called. I used a separate 4/4 piece for the 3/8" one - wasteful but like I said I don't have resaw capabilities right now, so it is what it is. Then I set up two routers, one with a 1/2" spiral upcut and the other with a top bearing pattern bit. Figured I might as well get them ready to go. Planning on using both to route the dog holes (kill the meat with the spiral bit and then flush trim to the jig with the other bit. Plus I'll need the spiral bit to route the screw cavity.Oh, and I made some dust:Tomorrow: slab milling and potentially starting on the slab tenon/screw cavity if I have time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Gilbert Posted October 17, 2015 Report Share Posted October 17, 2015 Looking good man too bad you can squeez that dust back into a board 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon_t Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 Your moving with some speed and intensity. Nice to see someone else who gets consumed by a project. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
estesbubba Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 Looking good man! No insulation needed in Boston since you never get snow? :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgreenb Posted October 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 Looking good man! No insulation needed in Boston since you never get snow? :)Insulation very much needed. Unfortunately every time I think about doing insulation I want to jump in front of a bus It's tough in winter though. Cast iron gets damn cold in February. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon_t Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 Yeah I hate those three days a year when it drops below 40. I have to actually throw on a hoodie in the garage. .rough man 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
estesbubba Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 Yeah I hate those three days a year when it drops below 40. I have to actually throw on a hoodie in the garage. .rough manis that the same 3 days a year it rains? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon_t Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 No different days. The temperate weather gods don't want to risk anything freezing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
estesbubba Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 Insulation very much needed. Unfortunately every time I think about doing insulation I want to jump in front of a bus It's tough in winter though. Cast iron gets damn cold in February. insulation is easy and cheap. I insulated the crap out of my shop and it makes a huge difference winter and summer. https://goo.gl/photos/GS5WEXDLU21nKTkM8Proof it pays off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdwerker Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 Looking good man too bad you can squeez that dust back into a boardThat's called particle board ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Gilbert Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 That's called particle board ! well yeah but i mean back to a whole board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdwerker Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 That's called "engineered lumber " hah ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 Glue up looks good man. Im impressed with how fast you are going at this thing with a 6 month old at home. At this rate, you will finish this bench before i finish the cod and i started that at the end of june! Sent from my SM-P550 using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgreenb Posted October 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Major progress today. Got the slabs cleaned up. The front slab fit on my 8" jointer (barely), so I took a few light passes to clean up one side. Then I put both of them through the planer until the other side flattened out. The larger slab was pretty flat already from the dominos - I had to do a little work to one side to get it completely flat before putting it through the planer. Kudos to those of you who did the slab flattening by yourself - these things are damn heavy. I could've done the smaller one solo, but the large one I definitely needed help. Not so much because of the weight - the thing is so damn unwieldy trying to get it fed through the planer would've been difficult.Here's a shot of my lovely indeed support and the finished slabs.I couldn't resist getting to work on the joinery. I used my tracksaw to square up one end of the small slab, and then again to cut the slab tenon. Circular saw joinery sucks. Made a bunch of passes until I had little slivers of wood that popped right off with a chisel. My wide 2" japanese chisel came in handy here. I used my dovetail saw to cut down from the end grain and then a flush trim saw to cut from the short edge to meet the kerf from the dovetail saw. That was slow going, but I don't have any other handsaws that are deep enough to make that cut. A few swipes with my RBP and I had a nice clean tenon. Then I got to work on the screw cavity. Damn that was a lot of routing. Too much routing. Even with a brand new 1/2" spiral bit it still sucked.Somehow I screwed up when setting up the edge guide and ended up with the cavity being 1/32" too wide. I'm gonna sleep on it before I glue back a patch and re-route. I think it's fine to leave it as is, it just means the tail vise tracks will be an extra 1/32" apart. There's supposed to be some slop in there anyway. I'm gonna think about it. My OCD will probably make me glue a patch on and redo it.Anyway, here it is:Also had my first two injuries. The thumb was from when I was cabinet scraping the glue off the slab, I slipped and cut my thumb on some dried glue - that stuff is damn sharp. The middle finger wound was from the marking knife when laying out the slab tenon. Completely sliced into my finger. Bled like a stuck pig. Left a trail going back in the house to clean it up. Thought about going to urgent care for stitches but quite honestly didn't want to quit for the day until I had the slab tenon done. So I slapped a band aid on it. Damn thing is still throbbing though. So yeah - dried glue and marking knives. Both sharp. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-MattK- Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Ouch on the finger, B. I did that in the kitchen 12 years ago, my wife walked in and said "THAT'S the color I want for the walls!" i couldn't find a benjamin moore color for AB Positive, though. Nice work on those slabs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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