Updated Woodworking Bench
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Here is the updated version of my woodworking bench I posted last week. Many thanks to Dave R for all his help.
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Looks good. What flavor materials?
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Thank You, I plan on using 4 sheets of Baltic Birch plywood for the top and the rest will be fir lumber and the apron for the top will be maple. I would like to use southern yellow pine but it is not available here in CA. I did find one distributor, but haven't been able to get in touch with them.
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Interesting. Here, SYP is pretty cheap, but fir will cost you and arm and a leg - way too expensive for a workbench. While fir is a nice strong and stable wood, it's kinda soft.
I have a workbench I got some time ago from a retiring friend, no so-so different from what you will be making. However, the top is face-to-face laminated maple, but the base is made of fir in the same style you are making. It's not super rigid due to its construction style (or, should I say, the execution of the construction), but if I bolted it to the shop wall, it would be fine.
Post pictures as you make it!
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I finally built the bench. I decided to get a butcher block top from Grizzly and made the aprons from maple. The frame is Red Oak with 1" walnut dowels for the through tenons and the vice is an older Craftsman that I found on Ebay. The vice position is because I am left handed.
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Nice work. That turned out almost too pretty to use. I expect you'll get a lot of good use out of it.
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Thank You Dave, I've used it a bit so far, but expect it will get a little bruised up over time. Maybe will give it some character. I've thought about finding a neat font and making a pattern to carve the year into the end apron. I saw it on a bench that Christopher Schwartz at Popular Woodworking did. Jerry
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That would look neat. You could also get a 2010 coin and inlet it some place to at least mark the year you built it.
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Lefties Rule!
Nice bench!!!
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