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08-29-2007, 11:12 PM
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Name: Mark City: Goldsboro State: NC County: Wayne Join Date: Mar 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Not tryin' to state the obvious, but if you pay special care to ensure the face grain of the table planks all run in the same direction, you will be much happier in the future. DAMHIKT
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08-30-2007, 02:36 PM
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Name: Chuck City: Rocky Mount State: NC County: Nash Join Date: Nov 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by Gofor  Not tryin' to state the obvious, but if you pay special care to ensure the face grain of the table planks all run in the same direction, you will be much happier in the future. DAMHIKT
Go Thanks for mentioning. I hadn't thought about it but I could see how it might be a pretty good idea. 
Too late for the first two glueups but I'll apply this approach from here on.
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08-31-2007, 07:55 PM
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Name: Travis City: Wake Forest State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Dec 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Good update. Look forward to the pics! | |
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08-31-2007, 09:20 PM
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Name: Chuck City: Rocky Mount State: NC County: Nash Join Date: Nov 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by Travis Porter Good update. Look forward to the pics! Well, the top is just a long, wide, long-grain cutting board project at this point. I'll take pics once I get the top glued and will take pics as I work on the fun stuff - vises, end caps and such.
BTW I'm glad you replied. It's almost Labor Day...so, whatcha gonna buy at Wall Lumber? 
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08-31-2007, 10:41 PM
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Name: Travis City: Wake Forest State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Dec 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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What am I going to buy at Wall lumber? Let's see.....
100 BF of log run Cherry plus another 50 BF of good cherry
100 BF of his packs of Mahogany plus another 50 BF of wider and longer stuff
100 BF of 8/4 hard maple
40 BF of 4/4 hard maple
4 sheets of 1/2 baltic birch
4 sheets of 1/4 baltic birch
3 sheets of 3/4 baltic birch
2 sheets of shop grade birch ply
I want to go to Kyle's and get some purpleheart as well, but dread the trip considering I am going to Wall.
Primary reason I am buying the plywood is I have become totally disgusted with the plywood at the BORG. All of the hardwood plywood and luaun is now garbage. It warps so bad it is miserable to work with. I am finally wrapping up the 2 playhouses and want to get back to doing shop stuff. I want to get back to working on a chair, building a new bench with cabinets, and a few more things for my girls. I don't go to Wall much, but try to stock up when I go.
As far as the tool itch, I succumbed to it some. Got a new Fuji Q4 4 stage turbine with all the accessories. I think it is going to be quite sweet. Broke down and got a 1/4 HP power feeder. That thing is amazing. If you ever need to run a bunch of molding or anything, haul it over and we will cut it. I ran about 300 ft of ogee molding (playhouses) through it and it was all perfect. | |
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09-01-2007, 09:31 AM
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Name: Chuck City: Rocky Mount State: NC County: Nash Join Date: Nov 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by Travis Porter What am I going to buy at Wall lumber? Let's see.....
100 BF of log run Cherry plus another 50 BF of good cherry
100 BF of his packs of Mahogany plus another 50 BF of wider and longer stuff
100 BF of 8/4 hard maple
40 BF of 4/4 hard maple
4 sheets of 1/2 baltic birch
4 sheets of 1/4 baltic birch
3 sheets of 3/4 baltic birch
2 sheets of shop grade birch ply
I want to go to Kyle's and get some purpleheart as well, but dread the trip considering I am going to Wall.
Primary reason I am buying the plywood is I have become totally disgusted with the plywood at the BORG. All of the hardwood plywood and luaun is now garbage. It warps so bad it is miserable to work with. I am finally wrapping up the 2 playhouses and want to get back to doing shop stuff. I want to get back to working on a chair, building a new bench with cabinets, and a few more things for my girls. I don't go to Wall much, but try to stock up when I go.
As far as the tool itch, I succumbed to it some. Got a new Fuji Q4 4 stage turbine with all the accessories. I think it is going to be quite sweet. Broke down and got a 1/4 HP power feeder. That thing is amazing. If you ever need to run a bunch of molding or anything, haul it over and we will cut it. I ran about 300 ft of ogee molding (playhouses) through it and it was all perfect. Wow, that's a pretty impressive wood pre-gloat. 
You may want to check out his Festool and other machinery while you're there. Of course, you'll need to stop by Woodworker's Supply, too.
The 8/4 hard maple Wall had on hand when I shopped there was 9 and 10 ft lengths. It took me a while to find widths I needed in pretty straight pieces.
The stock feeder and Fuji deserve belated suckage!
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09-02-2007, 04:47 PM
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Name: Chuck City: Rocky Mount State: NC County: Nash Join Date: Nov 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Top is glued up, clamped and drying.
I glued up sections of 3 boards, then glued two of the 3-board-sections together. I jointed between glueups to provide a good glue surface. I then passed each through the planer to clean up. I did NOT plane to final thickness since each glue-up required additional flattening.
It was really interesting mating the face joint for the final glueup. Each of the two pieces probably weighed 70 lbs (and felt like 100). Lots of fun running it through the jointer. The final joint line was NOT perfect but I can live with it. I had a few gaps of .008 inch maybe 1 inch deep. It just isn't easy keeping a heavy, long piece registered against the jointer fence.
Right now the width is 21.75 inches and thickness is 2.75 inch but thickness will be reduced a little when it's flattened. I still need to attach a front apron which should make the width around 23.5 inches or so, very close to the 24 inch width I originally wanted. I am planning my next few steps trying to avoid a screwup, although I'm confident I'll find a way.
Getting the grain all running in the same direction was not completely doable. Some of the sticks had grain that changed direction along the length of the board.
Next up is flattening the top, I guess. I am not sure exactly how I'll do it (router and jig will be first attempt) or how I'll know when I'm done.  It would be nice to have access to a wide belt sander or 24 inch snipe-free planer with spiral cutterhead.
Here's a few pics - one before final dry fit and the second as it now sits, glued and clamped. Not much to see though. It looks like a big cutting board.
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09-02-2007, 05:41 PM
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Name: Travis City: Wake Forest State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Dec 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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That is one BIG block of wood! | |
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09-02-2007, 09:20 PM
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Name: D L Ames City: Fayetteville State: NC County: Cumberland Join Date: Oct 2005 Age: 50 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Your bench is looking great Chuck! How are you going to make the dog holes? Square or round?
D L
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09-03-2007, 12:28 AM
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Name: jeff... City: Stovall State: NC County: Granville Join Date: Mar 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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That's one heavy duty top...
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09-06-2007, 11:10 PM
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Name: Chuck City: Rocky Mount State: NC County: Nash Join Date: Nov 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by D L Ames Your bench is looking great Chuck! How are you going to make the dog holes? Square or round?
D L I will make some round dog holes at some point. The way it's going, maybe Christmas!
BTW I'm glad to see you popping in here from time to time. 
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09-25-2007, 11:24 PM
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Name: Chuck City: Rocky Mount State: NC County: Nash Join Date: Nov 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Finished the dovetails for the endcap/front apron joint. Pics below. I'll butt the other end.
This was a LOT more work than I thought. I practiced HC DTs for 3 or 4 evenings before giving it a go. I don't have a DT saw so I used a Sharksaw (pull saw). I don't think the saw is set for ripping and it was dull by the time I went at the hard maple. It doesn't have a solid spine and is prone to wander starting out. I just stayed inside the lines and cleaned up with chisels. I touched up the chisels every so often to keep a keen edge. The edges on a few of them are buggered up but nothing a little time and sandpaper won't fix.
I left the end grain of the endcap a little proud of the apron face. I'll clean it up along with the endcap. The joints are not perfect but I really learned a lot making them. They are serviceable enough. I still need to rip the apron to final width to align with the endcaps.
Next step will be to bore holes through the apron for the front vise. Then I'll glue up the apron, align the front vise jaw with the apron and secure the vise with lag bolts.
End Vise DT Closeup 
Front Vise Detail, metal jaw mortised into bench top. 
Front Apron Clamped on to bench 
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09-25-2007, 11:32 PM
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Name: Monty City: Hickory State: NC County: Catawba Join Date: Jul 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Awesome! I love that purpleheart - it's going to make a nice looking bench | |
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09-26-2007, 12:41 AM
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Name: jeff... City: Stovall State: NC County: Granville Join Date: Mar 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Man everything looks so perfect 
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09-26-2007, 09:58 AM
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Name: Mike Hall City: Indian Trail State: NC County: Union Join Date: Feb 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Chuck the bench looks great!!! You're putting me to shame. I just finished mortise 8 of 12 last night. I'll post pics in my thread in a few minutes.
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