Such a great looking workbench! Glad you are back on, and hope to see more of your woodworking projects! Chuck
That's a beast, what did you use for a finish on the top. I used some spar polyurethane on my frame, mostly because I had a part can. I was thinking a oil finish would be better for the top. It's going to be rock maple so whatever I use will not penitraet much.
Building mine to use, I will probably be a little more careful with glue and paint than I was with the old particle board top model. I try to keep a couple big pieces of cardboard around for messy jobs.
Why, it is a bench? The joy is in building and using it. Why hide it? I think I built mine in 2013. I could spend an hour or 2 with ROS and it would look new again... I won't but!
fixed it for you
Grrr grrrr
Min Wax Satin Polyurethane. I’ve built a couple other benches and wood glue from glue ups pops right off. The picture I took is with finish wet yet. Did you hand chop your mortises or use a machine? Yours is looking pretty nice I must say
The legs are laminated from boards so I left voids where I could. The others I drilled out the made a template so I could clean them up with my router and guide bushing. I'm hesitant to polyurethane the top but it would look nice.Min Wax Satin Polyurethane. I’ve built a couple other benches and wood glue from glue ups pops right off. The picture I took is with finish wet yet. Did you hand chop your mortises or use a machine? Yours is looking pretty nice I must say
you could for sure……..
well i thought maybe 1813 but that would have been while @Mike1950 was off fighting in the war of 1812
I'm not casting dispersions, just saying those benches you guys built are as nice as my dining room table and it would make me reluctant to pound on it, get finish or glue on it, etc. My cheapo bench on the other hand I don't much care what happens to it as you can see.
I get it, but I am by no means reluctant to beat on it. Anything else defeats purpose. It is a tool. And if I screw it up I will just fix it... your bench is fabulous. I have 5 benches in my smaller work area. A plywood one, 12'x30" a live edge elm with drawers. A 1930s roll top and a brutally heavy steel desk that a renter left. Old slick formica? Top, nothing sticks to it. I use it for glue ups.
Agree on the Formica top (or whatever it is). We took out a built in desk from the downstairs here when we moved in and my wife needed the space for a long arm quilting bed. I laminated a section of that desk onto a piece of 3/4" plywood and used it for the top of one of the mobile work stations i wheel out into the driveway. That top is great. I even got some drops of epoxy on it and they scraped off with little effort.
