tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4287756767516891232024-02-07T16:43:48.279-08:00Berin's BlogSome things I make and ideas I have...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10734102934348007469noreply@blogger.comBlogger260125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428775676751689123.post-78085954517282994622016-11-11T14:35:00.001-08:002016-11-11T14:35:07.277-08:00Start of the new workbench<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well it all started back here a few years ago...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I have seen and worked with a few workbenches in my time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every year at college on the fine craft degree you would be assigned a new workbench.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would start the year by planing it perfectly flat, squaring the vice jaws</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and screwing my tool box inside the workbench.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I have never been able to afford a new workbench.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I have paid for a few books on how to make them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So up to now I have made a few and always for specific functions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For example:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Holding my lathe in a narrow outbuilding,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For my wife to wedge clay on,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For sharpening...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I want now is a planing bench.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes I am tempted by a Japanese planing bench and even had the wood cut and ready to make one!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now that is dedication to the idea of completing a project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I never did make it - not even sure what happened to those lovely planks now...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seriously where did they go? Oh yes outdoor benches...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I thought what do I have access to?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well some old school workbenches obtained very cheaply and made from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">very well seasoned 50mm thick beech.I used to have so many </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of these lying around without a home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A book by Robert Ingham which really inspired me with his MDF top</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(yes I really did say I loved the idea of a MDF top because</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really am tired of planing the bench down every year when it moves)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also what is more stable that I have access to?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Robert Ingham does know a thing a two about making stuff properly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Incidentally Alan Peters was very particular about planing benches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was the external examiner for my year group at College.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steve Hopper who runs the Furniture course at Bridgwater college </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">used to work for Alan making his furniture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A legend he was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So my plan is to cut up some old workbenches and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">create something for planing on, but that is about all I hope.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Would never use a circular saw, funny that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So how stable will a 50mm thick MDF layer on top of 50mm of seasoned beech be?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seriously I have no idea but I am going to give it a go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also I intend it to be reversible so any problems the 50mm top </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have the idea it will slot into a 50mm thick beech frame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can then work on having a full width planing stop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One at each end - always been a dream of mine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A push stop and a pull stop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>and reach for your scraper plane of choice.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Now personally I have never been able to justify the expenditure on a dedicated</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>steel scraper plane, I just seemed to have always got by with one of these:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>But I really don't do enough to justify them all.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>So what are my favourites?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Well I really like the Stanley 80 and my little Japanese one.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Stanleys you really notice a difference.</b></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10734102934348007469noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428775676751689123.post-73216591824435803752016-10-16T11:59:00.007-07:002016-10-16T12:01:11.324-07:00The Interlocking Mobius Ladder Story<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well I started this about 8 years ago.</b><br />
<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In another workshop - at a different house.</b><br />
<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can see an image in the background that was my inspiration.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>after 25 hours decided I was not going to be happy with </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>such an open grain so decided to start again!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>for as long as possible as they become very springy when finally finished.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The carving below shows the same method being deployed on a </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>different carving that I also completed recently.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Essentially</b></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> it is a steering wheel.</span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>So another 25 hours later I was back at this same stage again...</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>You can see version one hiding in the background.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>It has since been cut up and thrown on the fire and those 25 hours </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>of carving have kept </b></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">me warm (again) for a few minutes...</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chop your own firewood and it warms you twice.</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cutting through and connecting with the 'other side' is so satisfying.</b><br />
<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is one of the very best moments - then cleaning up all evidence!</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So having been on and off the carving for 8 years and 60 hours...</b><br />
<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The moment of cutting its umbilical cord had arrived...</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now at this point I would like to add a little more information about </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">what carving means to me.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For it is the perfect moment of FLOW that you can experience </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">when engaged in an activity </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that can ultimately provide you with one </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of the most grounding </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and satisfying experiences in life. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That is why I love it so much.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However elements of what I have perceived as essential to the process </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">are now proving very artificial and boring to me.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I saw an old friend doing a tongue in cheek series of videos the other day.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was pretending to be a 'good old English craftsman' teaching </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">good old woodwork values and skills.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The irony being he is a superb craftsman, far removed from </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the world he </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was making fun of.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It made me wonder what place this all has now.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This same person was really offended when advised he could return to his village</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and sell furniture to the locals. That advice was a little out of date for sure.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However getting back to my values...</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am tired of sanding and of staring at polished lime.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So this carving was straight of the tool and needed a different finish.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I went a bit mad and gave it 2 coats of Burgundy chalk paint and then</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">one coat of clear wax and one coat of dark wax.</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The final piece took 40 hours start to finish.</b><br />
<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The finish makes it feel a little older than it really is to me.</b><br />
<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More of a curio, with an old story.</b><br />
<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You could argue it has only one surface - just like a mobius strip or sphere.</b><br />
<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(as I rounded the edges)</b><br />
<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it is also a ladder, a never ending springy stairway...</b>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Well sometimes you need to just take a stock check on life.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I have come to the conclusion that as I am not using many of my tools and machines any more that it is time to sell them.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>To be honest I might sell quite a few things over the coming months.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>So if you like tools (like I used to) then keep your eye on my ebay account.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Selling on Ebay has been on my to-do list for a long time!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Grab a bargain - only 99p so far....</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>You will need to collect this beauty from Wells, Somerset.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I used to use it with my name stamp.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Record 073 Shoulder Plane</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Much better condition than so many out there.</b></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I only managed 4 spoons today.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I was quite pleased considering I had both my sons all day!</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am sure many of you understand EXACTLY what I mean!</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>These are used everyday by the family, </strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>so live next to the dining room table.</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">My favourite story about teaching my youngest to carve:</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">'Now you must not carve towards yourself,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I have told you already that is dangerous,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">you might cut yourself!' I say to my 5 year old...</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">(he is carving with a frost laminated razor sharp knife)</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">'I know daddy, my thumb is already leaking' he says,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">'Seriously?! Why did you not tell me?'</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I investigate to find the wood and his hand covered in blood.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>My nan was 100 years old recently.</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">For some reason I then decided I would carve 100 spoons.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Some kind of celebration or punishment I am not sure.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">My mum cut down one of her apple trees,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">So they are all Apple or Birch.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">for that is where all my birch comes from!</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I have decided doing them completely by axe, knife and spoon carving blade</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">is just being silly - so my Bandsaw has started to help me rough out now.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">What medieval mentality had I slipped into?</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I mean how else am I going to get them done?</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">It is nice carving with an axe mind you.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I suppose I like the idea that if you make 100 of something,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">you really get to understand that object.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">How many times have you made 100 of something?</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I used to say I trained as a furniture maker,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I mean that is what I did at University,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">but how many chairs have I made?</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">3 or 4 I think - lots of stools,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I wonder how many stools make a chair?</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">On a much deeper level, one beyond explanation perhaps,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">where the feel of the flow of the tools and hands</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">is stored and shelved and used to judge</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">giving pleasure to simple things...</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">This would probably take me 15 - 20 hrs if I carved it from solid.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was reminded recently that I used to write a blog.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I was waiting for a year to go by before I came back here....</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">But then I was surprised at how many views this blog gets.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">So perhaps I should come back a little more often.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I started this for many reasons but it is a lovely record of what we make.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I have made so many things since I was here last.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">To start off I will share a draft entry below - something I found unpublished:</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes you reach a crossroads in your life.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Many roads can lead from the junction,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">in my case recently I came to a T junction!</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">My path has now changed with being offered a new job.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">This has been partly the reason for my absence of late,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">the rigors of job interview preparation...</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Looking through my blog over the last couple of years</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I found this unpublished entry below,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">which I found appropriate as I will be leaving</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">it behind when I leave my current school.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">It was an honour to have this designed by an old friend Bill.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">We never did have enough time working together.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">But as a joint project we left this behind.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I am sure avid readers will realise how difficult this is to make.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">No one else probably does.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well I have got a new job and it is brilliant.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Get your knives out...</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>I just had to go and cook / eat with it straight away!</strong></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10734102934348007469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428775676751689123.post-67082682182426350032014-04-16T12:59:00.001-07:002014-04-16T12:59:19.570-07:00What to do with a large crack<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>I forgot I even had done this,</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>did this a very long time ago - its one way of turning</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>a crack into a feature!</strong></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10734102934348007469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428775676751689123.post-23492546335104193512014-04-16T12:56:00.001-07:002014-04-16T12:56:23.341-07:00Green Woodwork & Turning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>I like this type of woodwork at the moment.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>My wife says 'what about a fork / tongs etc?'</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>So I just pop out to the workshop and make her one...</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Most of these are from a Whitebeam log I salvaged from</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>It was standing dead so in fact was bone dry</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Well just after buying</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> myself some lovely Birds eye Maple at Yandles,</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>some lovely marking knives, axes and carving blades for sale.</strong></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Check out his cool site here: <a href="http://nicwestermann.co.uk/">http://nicwestermann.co.uk/</a></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>So I got this blade for £34 and was very happy it came without a handle!</strong></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I like making handles...</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Almost Japanese?! Nicely forged and very accurate 6mm bar tang.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Very good mirror polish on the back - only a few minor grinding marks</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>I got back that evening and whittled up a Hickory handle.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Oh and thanks for helping me sort out my Chipbreaker at the show as well!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>So this is me at the Yandles woodworking show.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>I pulled a lot of shavings with my Mon Tsunesaburo Kanna.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>I got to a nice point where I could drop a weight on the end</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>of the shaving then just pull a perfect gossamer shaving, straight and true.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Got some nice feedback, few people have ever seen a plane do this,</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>its not a common thing a western plane can do!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Got into some interesting conversations...</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Wish I had more pics of those lovely shavings!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Duhhh....</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many thanks to all those who were there,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andy, Harvey, Michael and Sue, John, Ian, Ray and Lillian,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also met up with lots of old friends, acquaintances and</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Michael and Sue Huntley (</strong></span><a href="http://www.hsow.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>http://www.hsow.co.uk/</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>)</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Setting up the show - Sue did a great job of welcoming everyone,</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>but had to field off lots of questions about her arm in a sling!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>(nothing woodwork related!)</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>(Apologies for the unflattering head shot Michael!)</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Michael did some saw sharpening and also had his</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>About time I gave it a workout - Michael designed the teeth specially</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>and has had them made to his specs, the only Japanese Saw that</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>I know is specifically for Hardwoods, such as, ummm Oak of course!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>asked if I had any blunt saws (which I do have a few of!)</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>and kindly used one as a demo throughout the day, he wanted to finish</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>it for me - but I managed to persuade him to leave me some work to do!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>I was very grateful for the tips he shared with me - I have all the kit now,</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>time to get sharpening - its the new skill I want to master!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Thanks again John, I am very inspired!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Now where did you get that optivisor from again...</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Luckily John had a plane that needed tuning up,</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I mean those new squares are genius - the best new tool update</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>So what I thought I would do is get the best of the best,</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These books above have some great </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">workbench related ideas in them, </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">got to condense the info in this world, too much..</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here is my list of needs, wants, observations and specifications:</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. I hate planing workstops flat - been doing this for years what a bore...</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">So the top must be flat and stay flat. (ish)</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">So based on Robert Inghams idea of using 30mm MDF for his bench top,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I will use 2 pieces of 25mm MDF for a 50mm MDF top.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I will sit this on a solid 40mm Beech top giving me a 90mm thick </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">and very heavy but stable worktop, I hope...</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. I have never found tail vices useful - had one for years and h</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">aving used </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a traditional cabinet makers bench with end vice and</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">dog holes I have come to the conclusion it is not for me.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Not now anyway, so...</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">My bench needs the option of adding an end vice and dog holes later if needed, </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">but not now as I have the luxury of having more than 1 bench to work on.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">4. What is it with the Roubo worksbench?!?!</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">This French craftsman Andre in the 1700's has a strangle hold lately on the type </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">of bench everyone is using, he has some top name advocates, </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">but for me it is the cost - I cannot afford to buy or make one!</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Boy do they look nice, I love there simplicity, stability and proportions </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">and yes I just answered my own question, </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">but for me I just want to fulfil my wish list, cheaply!</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I am sure I will make another workbench one day anyway...</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I would love to live with one, making with it for a month or so </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">to see </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">what the fuss is about but that is not going to happen.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Anyway I digress back to my list</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">5. My new workbench must be HEAVY, stable, tall, and thin.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">6. I need to make it by adapting an Emir workbench I have already.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">7. I want a reinforced centre section - I always thought this was a failing of the</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"> traditional woodwork bench, strong on the sides but use a mallet in the middle </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">is never a good idea, something I always teach,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">is that you must work over the leg area. </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">25 students </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">working in a room!</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">8. I want an apron at the front with a sliding deadman OR some way of </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">supporting long timber lengths when planning as this will really be a </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">planing bench - or elaborate Japanese planing beam! (sorry joker to self)</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">9. I need a large quick release vice with a big wood jaw on it, flush with top.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">10. Finally I want full length planning stops on right and left hand sides of the bench.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Again this is inspired by Robert Inghams bench.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Note I already have adapted my other workbench following ideas </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">gained from David Charlesworth and have 2 vices mounted in line - </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">which is so logical I am surprised I have not seen more makers do it.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">I do like that Veritas twin screw thread end vice - I could keep one of the </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">so I can alternate the tops perhaps?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>I wanted a tall set of drawers like he used for his Carving chisels.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>I went into work today and a friend said:</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Just use some petrol to get of the sticky tape...'</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Also I like the idea of putting them on wheels - something Robert Ingham does a lot.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I have been waiting for this day.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I feel like it is my workshop now.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Cunningly I tuned up everything before it went into storage,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>So they are all just going straight to work...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It was stored in my mums house so nothing went rusty!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>with how I am building the workshop.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>how exciting now I have painted it etc</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">and luckily these have already been done and photographed,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">as you can imagine from the previous post lots of time is being spent</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes it has been a while since I have had my Lathe up and going.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you believe I have had this lathe for 25 years?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Because he is in Intensive care at the moment.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>We are lucky he is still with us, very lucky.</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">But we love him very much, see him every day</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"> and want him to be patient with this long road to recovery.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Hand forged sign made by my brother Garrick and his students.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Copper and Gold leaf details - nice work Blood!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Its huge by the way...</strong></span></div>
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