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Thread: First workbench
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17th July 2023, 01:56 AM #1New Member
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First workbench
Hi All,
I started building this Paul Sellers(ish) workbench about 3 weeks ago. It's nearing completion now, thought you all might like a few photos. It's the first workbench I've ever made so go easy...
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17th July 2023, 09:05 AM #2Senior Member
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Nice job. I hope you get to complete many enjoyable projects on that bench.
Bruce
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19th July 2023, 09:27 AM #3
You will have to post again once you have it completed with vices fitted
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19th July 2023, 11:18 AM #4Intermediate Member
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What was the reason for bolting the top together as opposed to gluing it together? Or did you do both?
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19th July 2023, 09:57 PM #5New Member
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29th July 2023, 07:08 PM #6New Member
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Vice options
Hi All,
Seems like there are a lot of options for a vice for the bench. I would really like an old record vice but they are expensive and hard to find in good shape.
I've settled on this one from Sydney Tools, mostly out of convenience.
vice choice.jpg
Sydney Tools
Anything I've overlooked?
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30th July 2023, 12:10 AM #7SENIOR MEMBER
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Looks great I used one of these vices on mine
https://www.timbecon.com.au/baladonia-front-vice-screw
ps - build the drawer, so goodYou boys like Mexico ?
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30th July 2023, 03:34 PM #8
I grabbed one the same as Sam has shown but in bright orange, I suspect an early Timbcom colour, whats the best paint to use on it?
I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds
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31st July 2023, 01:01 PM #9
About 20 years ago on a previous bench I bought a similar QR vice from carbatec. It proved to be a pain in the @#$e as the QR function played up after about a year. I nursed it along for a few more years but it put me off QR vices for good. I dare say the old Records or a Dawn would be fine if you could find one in decent condition. I find that a strait wind in and out vice does the job just fine and for the few extra seconds spent winding you have the security of knowing there is not much that can go wrong. These days I have one like Sam has shown. Its also a bit easier to fit to a bench.
Regards
John
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1st August 2023, 12:20 PM #10Senior Member
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That's a very nice first bench Sawdodger. Looks very practical, sturdy and robust.
Most first benches, like mine, are simple without the actual rigidity and skookumness that practical benches need.
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2nd August 2023, 09:11 PM #11New Member
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3rd August 2023, 03:30 PM #12SENIOR MEMBER
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100%. Mines 300 wide x 130 odd and almost as deep as the bench.
You boys like Mexico ?
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3rd August 2023, 10:32 PM #13New Member
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4th August 2023, 09:03 AM #14SENIOR MEMBER
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Yep - tassie oak/Vic ash. The frame is F17 KDHW and the top is 65x19 DAR that I buy a few hundred metres of every year or so for something I sell. If I had my time again I’d use pine or plywood, the F17 is way too expensive nowadays. The drawer is only 100 deep, measured it.
You boys like Mexico ?
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4th August 2023, 01:06 PM #15Intermediate Member
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That looks amazing.
I really like your through tenons on the rails (really neat).
I'm building my first bench too at the moment, and it's taking me a heck of a long time (trying to be a perfectionist, when I don't have the skills....