Finally finished me new workbench

cdmclain · Post by **cdmclain** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:01 pm

Fantastic work, I can only hope that my future workbench will come close to the one you built.

wdphillips · Post by **wdphillips** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 12:33 am

Wow Dave, what a great job!

I guess there might be a use for the 20+ years of Woodsmith magazines I have stuffed away in boxes!

garys · Post by **garys** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 12:37 am

That's a beautiful bench. My workshop is in my basement and I don't have enough room for a wonderful bench like that. I build a small bench in my workshop. Mine folds down against the wall when I need more room, but it still serves my needs fairly well.
I'd love working on a bench like yours.

burkhome · Post by **burkhome** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:43 am

That is one fine bench. It should be a real pleasure to pursue your hobby on such a nice piece of furniture.

scooters · Post by **scooters** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:26 am

Looks Beautiful!

How did you keep the glued up top pieces even without a lot of planing or sanding after the glue job. It took me quite a while with fairly simple cutting boards. I can't imagine the job on something this massive.

robinson46176 · Post by **robinson46176** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:03 am

Very nice indeed... Now I hope you can quickly get it scratched up and a few dings so that you can relax and work on it without always worrying about the first scratch.

I had a friend that always drove old clunkers. One year he bit the bullet and bought a brand new car. He said that the first 6 months were agony. He said that he about cried at the first scratch. The last I knew he was still swearing that he would never buy another new car.

spiderclimber · Post by **spiderclimber** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:41 am

scooters wrote:Looks Beautiful!

How did you keep the glued up top pieces even without a lot of planing or sanding after the glue job. It took me quite a while with fairly simple cutting boards. I can't imagine the job on something this massive.

I am doubting you will get an answer to this. His original picture post was done on 3/23/2009 and he only ever had 3 posts. I am doubting he will be back to say hi unfortunately. But you could always check the plans out he used from the magazine. It may tell you.

osx-addict · Post by **osx-addict** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:14 pm

spiderclimber wrote:I am doubting you will get an answer to this. His original picture post was done on 3/23/2009 and he only ever had 3 posts. I am doubting he will be back to say hi unfortunately. But you could always check the plans out he used from the magazine. It may tell you.

If you follow the link he posted, it has his email at the very bottom..

camerio · Post by **camerio** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 5:12 pm

When we use the first link, we get to see all of his realisations, the second link brought me somewhere else (web ring)

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 7:47 pm

scooters wrote:Looks Beautiful!

How did you keep the glued up top pieces even without a lot of planing or sanding after the glue job. It took me quite a while with fairly simple cutting boards. I can't imagine the job on something this massive.

Hand planing would not take long to even it all out! BTW who said it was 'glued'?