Workbench 8 How it works

This is the published video after several bloopers, I will post them later

Make sure your legs are set properly apart

pins

steel collar to hammer on

end  board

vice

Workbench 7

 We finished routing out the top , it turned out great, only one BO BO when i dropped the router on to a finished surface, Routed planed a very slight bit and sanded the marks out.
Its sexy

 It very level and perfectly strait. Now i can put things up without having to worry about weather their perfectly flat, this solved that problem

Dont forget that old vice , this is the guide hole

 The back plate to keep everything strait

The complete assembly ,it took almost 4 hrs to design and execute

the bench parts complete

there are 17 parts tp this portable work bench.

Its cool

Work bench 6 end boards and leveling the table

cut in half

 Yesterday we talked about the end boards  and how they are done
First cut them in half , use a draw saw so you wont loose too much material because the board is already to size

Lay out your pin locations, drill them out and put the board  back together and in place

layout

drill out the peg holes

glue up the pegs and drive them home

 Make up the  knobs for the end board

position the end board and mark the screw locations

Knobs in place and end board done. Both sides where done the same way









Now we have to level the table top note the 2x4 stock in the above picture these two boards will be my strait edge

 to do this mount the straightedge boards to the side of the table temporarly,

 then string your carpenters sting in a cross form as shown

when they are just touching the entire table top is square on all four sides.

Now its time to set up and build the router sled

This is a router sled its just a board with the router mounted inside and it slides up and down the table
Using this locate the lowest point across the entire table preset that height on the router and that is your finished table height. Getting to that point is going to require a lot of back and forth making sure no chips get on to your railing.

I took the vice apart and the hardware is nice but because of the table design I don't think i will be able to use the old style carpenter vice , bummer  its a mounting problem so im going to have to come up with something a bit different and still use that wonderful hardware.

Ok here is where we are at and Monday is a fresh start. Then we are going to videotape the dis assembly and reassembly

work bench 5

guides to the bottom

In order to keep everything strait we routed out guides on the underside to sit strait on the legs

the ends definitively took a while to figure out because they are split Ill show you tomorrow how that works

end plate

a find

 I found this old end vice at the local trader shop Trader Ricks its a junk shop paradise
It cost me $40.00 The old hardware is worth that alone.

One end is now cut to shape

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I think its over a 100 years old ,very heavy ,made out of solid oak.
I cant wait to clean it up and make it part of the bench

work bench 4

Well here is our first problem,When i took the original measurements I went on the assumption that the skirts would be part of the table. No they have to be on the side to support the leg structure and i forgot about it until OOPS im short.
I had to do 2 more glue ups to come out to the right dimension. More time more mess but it worked

what to do

add more wood

add even more wood

incert collar on to peg ! Ya right not so easy

To hold the skirts in place i made these 1 inch pegs with a metal collar on them. They are easily removable and can me moved about to accommodate different wood projects

Done but it took two tries to get it right

Looks good works fine

1 1/8th pine dowes to hold skirt in place due to high side loads glued in of course

pegged

Tomorrow we do the center board and mount the top to the legs, remember no hardware of any kind

Workbench 3

the wedge system uses the end boards to keep everything stable

The first mock up the other half is still drying

cutting the insert for the wedge

back section and one leg done

its actually strait

now to put it all together today

Wood working bench2

I pushed the wrong button on the camera so this will be the only sefy you will ever see

glueup

clamp

cut tenons for legs

cut legs to lengh

cut tenon

cut tenon to height

Why go old school when you have a 3000 dollar tool

done in 10 minutes

Prefit and glue up