Bench, erm, things

[Si600]

Those of you with functional long term memory will recall the making of a new bench leg with vice. Due to the final expiration of our nearly 50 year old central heating over the summer and a move to gas rather than oil, just in time for a certain swivel eyed loony to invade his neighbour and punt the gas price up, which meant the removal of the 5000 litre oil tank.

 

Which in turn means that I have an extra 8.5 sqm of workshop space! Joy!

 

So here is wot I hav bin doing.

 

 

Pulled the old bench apart and used the "good" leg from it as a part of the new frame.

 

 

Cut the old top down from 1m x 2m to a more sensible 800mm x 1500mm and put the edging back on.

 

Piled stuff on it.

 

Before fitting the vice and bench drill. The old drill bench was an office desk kindly "donated" by my father in law and bowed dramatically with the weight of the drill. Let's see this one do that!

 

 

 

 

Then because I want a bench on which to make projects firewood, I scoured the interwebz and found this design by Rex Krueger (https://youtu.be/zcq1LQq08lk).

 

Before anyone points out that Rex's bench has two braces underneath, I know, I ran out of timber. I also need to decide where the dog holes need to go and whether I can reuse the old vice chop.

 

Edited October 20, 2022 by Si600

[Reggaebass]

Nice job Si, the pillar drill looks good, I use mine occasionally for Blum hinges, great space you got there 

[Si600]

It's barsteward heavy and unwieldy is what it is.

 

 

What's a blum hinge?

Edited October 20, 2022 by Si600

[Reggaebass]

2 minutes ago, Si600 said:

It's barsteward heavy and unwieldy is what it is.

 

 

What's a blum hinge?

I like the heavy ones they are more stable, blum hinges are on most kitchens and wardrobes 

[TheGreek]

Looks good...but there's something missing...

 

 

 

Where the new bass project?? 😉😉

[Si600]

[Simon.]

 

On 20/10/2022 at 16:37, Si600 said:

 

There are no bass projects, there is only table football!

Quality work. 😎