I’m working on my 2nd project – my attempt at the Essential Workbench, something I’ve had to put on hold for several years till I had time, so I am very excited to be finally doing it.
I’m laminating many pieces of 8/4 maple to make thicker stock, using yellow glue. I knew it would be hard to match up the laminating pieces exactly when gluing, so I left them a tad oversize, and plan to run them through the table saw, jointer, planer to clean them up and bring them to final dimension.
Is this an OK technique, or will the yellow glue gum up the blades?
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Scrape off any big globs as best as you can, but the residual glue won't hurt anything.
-Steve
i glued my top last week. i glued in three 10" segments. i cleaned what i could with a wet rag. i then planed these ten inch sections on my power planer. i had one edge that wasn't square to the top. i ran this section through the able saw taking about 1/8" of the unsquare edge. all went together beautifully.
good luck and have fun.
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You are also making this bench? That's very cool. I'm glad it is going well for you. Thanks for the replies - full speed ahead!
i couldn't tell you what the "essential bench" looks like. but i am building a workbench. solid beech with a twinscrew veritas end vise and a quick release vise front vise i bought from lee valley. the name of the front vise is escaping me. last minute i decided to change my apron from beech to 10/4 curly maple otherwise i would be finished, but i figured i might as well do it with no reservations.
it has been a fun project. with the top put together and the trestle base built i have about 12 hrs into it. i still haven't put the apron on yet which will take the better part of a day, and the vise installatons will probably take a couple of hours each. i look forward to finishing it up next weekend:)
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Sorry, the "Essential Bench" was a project in a Fine Woodworking "Tools and Shops" issue back in 2004. It caught my eye, so I hung onto the article and have been wanting to build it ever since. Someone posted to the Gallery pretty recently his version of this bench:http://forums.taunton.com/fw-knots/messages?msg=39373.1I like your idea of the curly maple for the apron, and since I haven't bought the wood for the top yet, I will have to give that serious thought. :-) Twelve hours seems amazing to me - I'm sure I'll take longer.
Edited 5/21/2008 3:32 pm by DavidDodd
i wasn't building the trestle base as though it were a piece of furniture. i used good mortise and tenon joinery with drawboard pegs. but there are flaws due to time constraints. i am a contractor by trade and this being my busiest time i had to fit the construction into two full weekends work. it was a push, and it shows but asthetics are backseat to function. my top is solid and true and the base is sturdy. i'm not sure what it will weigh in the end but it will be heavy.400- 600 if i had to guess.
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Edited 5/21/2008 7:31 pm ET by arnemckinley
almost identical to the essential workbench, but mine isn't near as pretty:)
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