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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (The top)

Postby Andyp » 18 Apr 2019, 17:35

Is that your only vice Malc?
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (The top)

Postby Woodbloke » 18 Apr 2019, 17:49

Andyp wrote:Is that your only vice Malc?

Going to be an interesting answer Andy :lol: :lol: - Rob
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (The top)

Postby Phil » 18 Apr 2019, 17:55

Looking very good Malc :eusa-clap: 8-)

I found it such a ballache handling the top with vice fitted on my own. Awkward and heavy.
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (The top)

Postby Malc2098 » 18 Apr 2019, 17:56

I aim to put a Veritas inset tail vice on the right hand end.

I've tried ordering for collection on Saturday, but it seems to have disappeared from my basket/account.
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (The top)

Postby Malc2098 » 18 Apr 2019, 17:57

For the smutty ones among you, and Rob, I have loads, and for Phil, I found it only made my head ache! :D
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (The top)

Postby Woodbloke » 18 Apr 2019, 22:04

Malc2098 wrote:I aim to put a Veritas inset tail vice on the right hand end.


I saw one of those at the Ax store on Saturday; looked a useful bit of kit - Rob
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (The top)

Postby 9fingers » 20 Apr 2019, 12:00

@malc
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (The top)

Postby Woodbloke » 20 Apr 2019, 17:36

Strange looking Easter egg Bob :lol: :lol: - Rob
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (The top)

Postby Malc2098 » 20 Apr 2019, 17:46

I like presents. I got myself an inset vice today, and I have a long egg in bubble wrap due to arrive soon.

Oh, and a Fisch 3/8" wood drill!
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (The top)

Postby 9fingers » 20 Apr 2019, 17:50

Woodbloke wrote:Strange looking Easter egg Bob :lol: :lol: - Rob



Well you know me Rob, unconventional to the last :lol:
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (The top)

Postby Malc2098 » 23 Apr 2019, 13:27

The lovely 19 fingered Easter Bunny known as TrimTheKingBob9Fingers have supplied me with this lovely stuff to draw bore the tenons in the bench frame. :eusa-clap:

Lovely Jubbly! (Does anybody remember Jubblys? Or Calypsos? Or was it Jubly?)

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Now I've got to spend the rest of the afternoon popping the bubble wrap!
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (The top)

Postby TrimTheKing » 23 Apr 2019, 13:35

Excellent, glad it's all with you now. Should look good. That ABW goes a lovely dark brown, with many different shades within it ranging from a fairly light brown, through dark, to some purplish shades. Lovely stuff.
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (The top)

Postby fiveeyes » 23 Apr 2019, 18:06

Bench is looking quite smart, Malcolm.
The walnut is great stuff. :obscene-drinkingcheers:
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (The top)

Postby Malc2098 » 23 Apr 2019, 18:18

Well here goes, a giant step for Malckind! My first attempt at draw boring.

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All the holes drilled for one side frame assembly. A while ago, I bought a cheap tapered reamer to ease the string pin holes on my guitars. It helped easing the holes in the tenons to facilitate the dowels going through.

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A whizz with a drill on some sandpaper and the ends of the dowels are chamfered.

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The first dowels are tapped through. Some were less resistant than others. I put that down to some differences in the density of the tenons.


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All the dowels are tapped through.


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Dowels cut flush with a flush cutting saw.



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I read somewhere that somebody uses a hypodermic to drop water on to the dowels to swell them. I only had a paintbrush. But doesn't that ABW come up lovely when it's dampened!

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One end complete!

Chuffed, again.
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (The top)

Postby TrimTheKing » 23 Apr 2019, 18:26

Excellent mate. It’s a really great timber for your use case because as you say it comes up lovely and dark under a finish and the contrast against the light timber of the bench will look bang on.
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (The top)

Postby Malc2098 » 30 Apr 2019, 19:57

Been away on family stuff installing sink and renovating a beech worktop for my godson.

Both frames have now been drawbored and the the apron and end rail bolted to the neck top.

And it's getting heavy, so I shall fit the bench casters next.
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (The top)

Postby Woodbloke » 01 May 2019, 17:14

Looks like it's all coming together very nicely Malc...whatcha going to use for a bit of vice grippage? - Rob
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (The top)

Postby Malc2098 » 01 May 2019, 17:25

Woodbloke wrote:Looks like it's all coming together very nicely Malc...whatcha going to use for a bit of vice grippage? - Rob


The lower pair of bolts are holding the apron/vice jaw to a Record 52E, the other half of which is waiting for the outer jaws to be made to size.
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (The bottom)

Postby Malc2098 » 02 May 2019, 18:45

Nothing like a nice bit of hardware to move the bench round the 'shop.

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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (Fitting the vice)

Postby Malc2098 » 05 May 2019, 18:58

Today I offered the top to the frame for the first time. Blimey, that was heavy! But it came out nice.

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So I decided too rack on with the outer vice cheek. Last week I invested in a set of CMT forstener bits. I used the 35mm to rout out the shape of the vice jaw, using the blue tape cut line method. It worked a treat.

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The cheek fitted the jaw with no fettling!!!
So I checked the angles of the cheeks. Will that do, Rob?
If it's OK, I have to say it's more by luck than judgement. :)

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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (Fitting the vice)

Postby Andyp » 05 May 2019, 19:07

In a small workshop having the bench on wheels is a great idea. I have to lift mine up and slot some castors underneath to move it and have done so only twice in 10 years when laaning longth lengths across the workshop and out through the door.

I have some mortices to cut in 4m lengths soon so might have to move it again, although it might be easier to take the mortiser down to the garage.
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (Fitting the vice)

Postby Woodbloke » 06 May 2019, 09:59

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The cheek fitted the jaw with no fettling!!!
So I checked the angles of the cheeks. Will that do, Rob?
If it's OK, I have to say it's more by luck than judgement. :)


I've done mine slightly differently in that the closing cheek (the one attached to the vice) is slightly tapered and the bench side is square. It looks to me from the pic as though there may be too much of a taper (it's literally the thickness of a bit of printer paper or very thin card) so I guess the only way to see if it works is to stuff something into the vice and see if it grips - Rob
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (Fitting the vice)

Postby Malc2098 » 07 May 2019, 19:12

Slowly getting there.

I've fitted the front vice and done the paper test and it seems to work.

I've fitted a trial tool tray which seems to work, so I'll make a permanent one out of ash.

I've fitted the tail vice and need to bore some dog holes and buy/make some dogs.

I've fitted the locating buttons in holes in the underside of the top and top side of the frame but it was so bloomin' heavy getting one on top of the other marking it out upside down and then fitting it right way up, I haven't got any photos, but a couple of achy shoulders instead!

And I've bolted the oak faced ply to the back to stop the frame wracking/racking or however you spell it.

Now, I've got to try and fit the shop vac underneath and see if I can make and fit some drawers in whatever space is left.

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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (Fitting the vice)

Postby MY63 » 07 May 2019, 20:38

Great job
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Re: Malcolm's Workbench (Fitting the vice)

Postby Andyp » 08 May 2019, 06:39

It does look good Malc. Is it missing some dog holes for that end device.
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