time, weather, work, other projects, overwhelmed by the dimensioning by hand, who knows the real reason but really haven’t made much progress.
Today i used my newly acquired table saw to get things a little closer in size, and my new “outfeed” table to see if it could take it, and it did it like a champ, did have some burning here and there though, due to user error im sure.
I mentioned before, the bench will be 2 ~12 inch slabs for the top. It will have a 2BDetermined gap in the center, guess it could be a split-top, still designing/redesigning details in my head.
Here is a 11 3/8” slab in a test glueup session using some advice gained from comments in previous posts. Put some of the bent boards sammiched between some straight ones, came together fairly easy, but i immediately noticed i have some more work to be done for the glue faces as there were some gaps between the boards i did not like. Picked up the slab while clamped together and can tell that the bench is gonna be pretty dang heavy when completed.
after doing this i went on to some other projects and cleaned out the pile of dust the saw left in and around itself. I threw it all in the fire pit, i built yesterday to compliment my newly acquired lawn furniture from a moving sale some city folk were having down the way.
see my SYP boards i have sitting there? have this project i wanna use them on, after i rip out the pith.
ablee ablee ablee, thats all folks…
N2S
dust collection for Tsaw
“finish” shop arrangment
-- "....put that handsaw to work and make it earn its keep. - summerfi" <==< JuStiN >==>=->
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PurpLev
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#1 posted 08-12-2013 03:52 AM
looks good. and as long as you are mentally progressing in the project – you ARE progressing. sometimes a physical break allows you to reevaluate, and rethink some of the details, which longterm could actually be a good thing.
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Airframer
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#2 posted 08-12-2013 09:35 AM
I have had my fair share of “non-productive” days on my bench build. I find sometimes it’s handy to have a few instant gratification projects in the fire to get that sense of finishing something to get back on track.
-- Eric - "I'm getting proficient with these hand jobbers. - BigRedKnothead"
Don W
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#3 posted 08-12-2013 10:29 AM
Small progress is still progress. Keep it moving.
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Smitty_Cabinetshop
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#4 posted 08-12-2013 11:21 AM
Looks promising, Justin! True, it’s a big task when starting, but it gets better. Pick off the ‘easiest’ of what’s in front of you, and pretty soon it’ll be done !
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theoldfart
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#5 posted 08-12-2013 09:20 PM
Justin, so far my bench build has been an exercise in hurry-up-and-wait. I tried to rush this past weekend and wound up going backwards a bit. Pace is good!
Hang in there.
-- "With every tool obtained, there is another that is needed" DonW ( Kevin )
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