Well Charlie, you've certainly hit on some good questions. See my answers
below

Joe
"charlieb" wrote in message
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Very nice! A special piece of wood for the shoulder vise
spacer block is a nice touch. The one in Frank Klausz's
bench the inspiration?

Yes, I liked the spalted one in Frank's bench but I didn't have any spalted
maple. The Walnut was the crotch from an 8/4 natural edge slab that I
gloated on awhile back.

Did you with the traditonal all wood tail vise? If not, whose
hardware did you decide on?

The only metal is the screw. I got the screws at two different times,
therefore the different color heads (green and black). The green one on the
tail vise is actually the cheaper one.

Did you go with the nylon centered lock nut on the AllThread?
Nope, I used red (perm) Loc-Tite on the front nut on the dogleg vise and
used a jam nut on the other end in the tool tray. That way I can easily
loosen the back one with seasonal change. Wanted to permanently lock the
front so that the AllThread never protrudes out the front.

Big dovetails are fun. Did you use a bandsaw or a handsaw?
Most dovetail saws won't cut that deep. Tenon saw will though.
They are fun. Really fun in rock hard maple where the tolerances disappear.
Dog leg vise I used a bandsaw to cut the two half pins first by tilting the
table. Used that to mark the tail and bandsawed that as well. Tail vise:
Through dovetails on the back the same way. Half blinds on the front were a
workout. Mallet and chisel all the way!

Tool tray is knid of handy - and the ramped ends will make it
easier to sweep out.

Ayup. Already I love having it there. Kind of nice to be able to move your
workpiece around without knocking stuff off the bench. I'm trying to create
the habit of never setting things down except in the tray. We'll see how
that works out.

Shallow draweres were a good idea - no digging through layers
of tools to find something. Go with wooden drawer guides or
metal drawer guides?

I'll save the wooden guides for the furniture. All ball bearing KV slides.
Got a deal sometime back and picked up a couple cases.

Did you spline the apron to the bench top core?
Yes, the apron is splined with a break in the spline for the thin-stock
planing stop (which is the same material as the dogleg vise face). The dog
hole strip was then attached with quadruple rows of #20 biscuits between
each dog hole. That was *fun* putting that on! Lotta glue and lotta lining
up in a short amount of time.


End of the front apron mortise and tenon joined?

Nope. They are loose splined. I don't have quite the stable shop humidity
that I would like, so I couldn't take any chances with splitting. Now that
I read your question again.... you're asking about the end caps, right?


With panels between the legs and a frame and panel
inbetween it should be pretty stabile

I could set my car on top of that base.

The bottom stretchers AllThreaded?

No. Just some 6" bolts with the nut hidden in a recess in the stretchers.
Kind of what you would do on a bed frame.

Nice bench. Should come in handy on your next project.

Thank you Charlie, always nice when someone takes an interest.

Betting this will be your last bench.
I hope so! I could have used a bench to build it! Isn't that always the
way?

charlie b

Be well, work wood,

Joe C.