Work bench build - picture heavy.

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Today's progress was completing jointing of the ash on 2 sides. This filled the dust collector drum again, 2nd time I emptied it.
The ash for the top is now ready to be planed.
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Then I cut the walnut to length. It is now ready for a trip through the jointer.
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Today was another productive day in the shop. I started by jointing all the walnut on 2 sides.
Then I got the planer set up and had at it. Ran the walnut first.
I set up a makeshift infeed support to minimize snipe, it's virtually non existent when set up like this.
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Checking for flatness.
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Shimed it up to height. Clamped it to the table and duct taped it to the table saw fence.
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Used a roller stand for the outfeed side.
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All the wood for the top is now dimensioned on 3 sides and I'm ready to start glue ups.
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The walnut is very nice, there is some figure in it but you wont see most of it when glued up. It finished out at 15/16" thick.
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The ash is random thicknesses from 1 1/2" to 2"
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And I almost filled the dust collector again.
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That's a lot of planing. Nice to work with wood that is all the exact same size and square all around though.
 
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DLJeffs said:
That's a lot of planing. Nice to work with wood that is all the exact same size and square all around though.
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I almost always work with rough sawn lumber so it just part of the process for me. Milling lumber is very therapeutic for me. I actually enjoy it. Plus I also chainsaw mill most of my lumber, this build will be all from wood that I have chainsaw milled.
 
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woodtickgreg said:
I almost always work with rough sawn lumber so it just part of the process for me. Milling lumber is very therapeutic for me. I actually enjoy it. Plus I also chainsaw mill most of my lumber, this build will be all from wood that I have chainsaw milled.
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I prefer rough cut. That way if it is screwed up I know who to blame. So many times /most of the time, planed lumber has not been done right. Always ends up being spendy bins of chips.
 
woodtickgreg said:
I almost always work with rough sawn lumber so it just part of the process for me. Milling lumber is very therapeutic for me. I actually enjoy it. Plus I also chainsaw mill most of my lumber, this build will be all from wood that I have chainsaw milled.
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That made me chuckle because it seems like I'm always working with wood that isn't square or straight or the same dimension.

Edit: actually, that's not true. David ( @gvwp ) sqaured up all four sides of the ambrosia maple boards he sold me for that hall table I built. It was nice knowing I could measure once or clamp a stop block on my table saw and cut all 8 dados and legs without measuring each one separately.
 
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First section is in the clamps. It will take 2 sections like this to make 1 section of the top. There will be 3 sections total.
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trc65 said:
Gonna be a beast of a bench! Remind me again, what's the top thickness you are shooting for?
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3 5/8" but I may go a little thicker just depends on how it cleans up after the glue up. This is based on the height of the vise I plan to install.
 
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Not much to show, just gluing and clamping and scraping off squeeze out, lol. I did have a short day at work so down to the shop I went.
3rd one is in the clamps. More glue has been ordered, lol.
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Once I take the clamps off I run them through the jointer to level everything out. Then 2 sections like this will get glued together. This is the bottom in the pic. I now have 2 of these done.
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The goal for the top is three 12" wide sections.
And I did empty my dust collector again. I'll have 2 drum liner bags full for garbage pick up day tomorrow.
 
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Not much to show, just gluing and clamping and scraping off squeeze out, lol. I did have a short day at work so down to the shop I went.
3rd one is in the clamps. More glue has been ordered, lol.
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Hack for you! No need to order more. Scoop all that glue off the top of the boards and before it hardens, put it back in the bottle. Looks like you'll have a full bottle again.
 
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Hack for you! No need to order more. Scoop all that glue off the top of the boards and before it hardens, put it back in the bottle. Looks like you'll have a full bottle again.
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Yeah I got a little carried away with this one, oops! I took the cap off the bottle and just pored it on.
 
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Took the third one out of the clamps and flipped it over to remove the glue drips. I used my favorite Stanley scraper for that. I don't know why they quit making them, they work excellent.
Now it's ready for the jointer.
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And I got 2 halfs in the clamps, this makes one 12" section. I need 2 more.
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Greg, that's going to be one stout bench. I certainly enjoyed building mine - benches are fun to build. I'd gladly build another, if I could find a good excuse to do so.

As far as glue usage goes, I'd read of so many people saying they went through nearly a gallon of glue doing their benches. So I bought a gallon in preparation of building mine. I used about 1/3 of the jug and really wished that I had not done what everyone else said to do and bought a whole gallon. As of now, I still have almost a half gallon of it a few years later.
 
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Greg, that's going to be one stout bench. I certainly enjoyed building mine - benches are fun to build. I'd gladly build another, if I could find a good excuse to do so.

As far as glue usage goes, I'd read of so many people saying they went through nearly a gallon of glue doing their benches. So I bought a gallon in preparation of building mine. I used about 1/3 of the jug and really wished that I had not done what everyone else said to do and bought a whole gallon. As of now, I still have almost a half gallon of it a few years later.
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Yeah I'm just going a quart at a time, just opened the second quart. I may use close to a gallon because I'll be laminating all the stock for the legs too. But by purchasing quarts it will always be fresh glue and I won't have a lot leftover to separate and go bad on the shelf. It can be stirred if it separates but I'd rather not do that.
 
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Yeah I'm just going a quart at a time, just opened the second quart. I may use close to a gallon because I'll be laminating all the stock for the legs too. But by purchasing quarts it will always be fresh glue and I won't have a lot leftover to separate and go bad on the shelf. It can be stirred if it separates but I'd rather not do that.
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Today's after work shop time. I set the planer up to machine the top of the glued up 12" section. First time the mighty dewalt 735 struggled. But it is all hardwood and 12" wide. It's like pulling a massive beam, a lot of work for a benchtop planer.
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But it did get it done and it came out nice. I was shooting for 3 5/8" but it cleaned up at 3 1/2
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I put some ca on a few imperfections. I'll scrape that down tomorrow.
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Next section is in the clamps. Only need to do 2 more of these.
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Then I waxed the planer bed and tables, that might help with the feed assist.
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