Making a start on the workbench

Workshop


This is the bench room where I spend my days; that's my bench on the left shortly before moving to the empty space under the window.

The bench in the middle is being built by Dan using iroko for the base and hard maple for the top with a steel face vice and traditional tail vice.

Dan's bench uses the school's standard design which has been built by many students over the years. Students often add their own touches but I'm told the basic design doesn't change very much.

Wanting to do something a little different, I chose to use hard maple throughout and ordered a maple screw for the tail vice from
Lake Erie Toolworks in the US.


Hard Maple

The timber for my workbench arrived last week and has been acclimatizing in the machine room ready to make a start this week.

After a close inspection to decide where each board would be used I started rough cutting the base components to length on the radial arm saw and ripping to width on the bandsaw.

All components are oversize and will be brought down to final dimension as work continues; why not follow the build over the coming weeks.

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