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PeterE makes a workbench
vtsteam:
Great bench,Peter! :thumbup: :thumbup: :clap: :clap:
PeterE:
Thanks krv and vt!
Joe d:
Peter
That turned out really well. Wish I had room for one!
Cheers, Joe
PeterE:
Thanks Joe, sorry for the delayed answer, must have missed it while looking at the interresting banjo build above.
/Peter
PeterE:
Well, Easter brought some new tools to the workshop. Five of my ToDo's got finished or almost finished making room for a further clean-up of the ToDo list. It turns out that the ability to make ones own tooling sure saves the wallet. I so far saved a fair bunch of money (if you don't count the hours spent of course, but who counts fun time?). At least some of those tools are also difficult to obtain in Sweden. The workshop time resulted in the following things:
First a simple small brass hammer 25x75 mm. it makes less "damage" in the wrong places than a steel one does, and it is also good to have for both wood and metal working.
As I had a suitable chunk of brass so I also made a carvers mallet, kind of medium size I think. 45-ish mm diameter and 50 mm long with a turned maple handle.
In a drill box there was a smallish center punch, a little too small to my linking so I made a brass handle as an extension.
The last tool for the wood working part of the shop is a luxury marking gauge. 45 mm diameter front face and almost all in brass with a turned inlay of Juniper. The adjustable stem is 8 mmx 175 mm long (could easily have been 200 mm). Prepared for both a scratch pin and a circular cutting edge. A circular edge can be pulled into the front face and is then protected. No it will not roll off the bench, the locking screw prevents that as well.
Finally, some tools for the metal part of the shop. A set of hand turning tools with HSS blanks to be ground when the grinding machine has been properly set up (upcoming project). The handles are from a cut down Cherry tree some years back - yes I am raiding the woood pile for turning material. Turns out that most of our wood in scandinavia is very blond, Fir, Juniper, ash, maple, birch, pine, etc are all very light in color so that is what I use.
Five smallish projects done! The pile get slightly smaller.
Happy Easter everyone!
/Peter
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