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Woodbloke wrote:Perfick and to finish off the tenons, a small chamfer round the ends would complete that part of the job - Rob
TrimTheKing wrote:All packaged up and ready to go in the morning. I had planned to send it today but trotted off to the post office to post this and collect a couple of things, only I left the house forgetting to pick this up! Clown!
It’ll be with Bob in a day or so. No recompense required mate, just remember me when you’re famous!
RogerS wrote:Perhaps it was my bad explanation. I wasn't suggesting that the bow would go completely. Just that it should be less and so you'd end up with thicker wood after prepping then if you'd tried to do it without the pre-release.
Malc2098 wrote:... apron or not, tool well or not, tail vice or not,
Mike G wrote:The reason for an apron is to provide racking resistance. If you decide not to put an apron in, then you will need some form of diagonal bracing to provide structural stiffness to resist horizontal forces from planing. Don't forget that all of your joints are likely to weaken over time, and relying on a rectilinear construction, without bracing or an apron, is a recipe for a wobbly bench.
Traditional benches don't allow for clamping because they were designed around hold-downs. Hold-downs and aprons go hand-in-hand, although a tail-vice can do much of what hold-downs can do, in a different way. Your choice.............but my number one criteria for a bench is that it is rock solid. Doing away with the apron increases the risk that it isn't.
9fingers wrote:@Mark & Malc
Just to let you know that the ABW for the dowels arrived this morning.
Typically I'm upto my ear 'oles with stuff having bought a flat yesterday and part way through building an ottoman bed in the workshop so today will be a write off but I will get on with the dowels in the next few days
@Malc would you be kind enough to pm me your address - yes I know I should have it somewhere from the last time I sent stuff but my filing system is not that well organised.
Cheers
Bob
Andyp wrote:FWIW Malc I have not for one minute regretted drilling holes, round, in bench top and using hold downs and veritas dogs.
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