What's on your work bench? September 2019

Nothing is on my bench, because I just started building it...

For the longest time I've wanted a wall length workbench with storage and that project has finally bubbled to the top of the list. Because it will double as a compound sliding saw station I'm having to build it deeper than say your typical cabinet which is 24". It will be 32" deep or thereabouts. Since the depth is going over 24" using plywood is out of the question as the number of sheets needed would be absurd. Instead I'm taking advantage of my shrinking stack of bleacher boards and making it from them. I'm also taking full advantage of the wood walls by using pocket screws to attach the vertical dividers. This is not being built like a typical kitchen cabinet. I'm winging it to say the least. As you can see from the below pictures I've completed the base and vertical dividers. The base is taller than your typical cabinet toe kick because I want it to look more like a built-in so I'm using the same baseboard as the rest of the shop. The verticals are constructed by tongue and groove. The left side of the bench will be five sets of four drawers. Due to the astronomical cost ($70 per pair is the cheapest I found) of 32" bearing drawer glides I'm going old school with waxed hardwood runners. With 20 drawers it is the only way to go. I can't justify $1400 on drawer glides for pete's sake. Hopefully in the next week or two I'll knockout a cabinet to go on the wall above the cabinet. Then it's time to make the bench top.

Eric

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Good morning, Eric~


Great project - and a coincidence. I, too, plan to build a long bench for a new sliding miter saw (I'm planning on the Milwaukee). I keep putting it off because of other projects, etc. Mine can only be about 12-feet LOA. And, although it'll have a top row of fairly shallow (~4 inches) drawers either side of the saw "well", most of my lower space will hold all the short lengths of good lumber that a decoy carver/boatbuilder just cannot toss into the stove.


I will watch your progress with great interest!


All the best,


SJS

 
[size 4]Beautiful workbench, Eric. Judging by some of the equipment in the first pic, it looks like you have dust collection down to a science as well.

You need to post one of those 360 pans of your entire operation someday for us to marvel over.
 
Steve & Bob

Thanks. I'll try and get more pictures as construction moves forward. The dust collector is just wall d?cor right now. I still need to run ductwork and am waiting for the workbench to be completed. With it comes the need to move some machinery so I'll have to figure out where everything goes after the workbench is done. The ductwork and building a garage door (I can't get AC until I have a door to keep the cold air in the wood shop) are all that I lack to consider the woodshop complete. After that it will just be refinements.

Eric
 
These buffies are some of the first birds I ever carved. They were pulled from the rig a few years ago. The wood putty was cracking and falling out and they were absorbing water. I finally got around to fixing them with thickened epoxy and then sealed with epoxy. My daughter did the repaints with me over the summer and I just got pad wieghts on them last night. Ready to hunt again!
The blackduck was part of a rig I carved a few years ago. On the first hunt it's pad weight fell off. It ended up on the shelf for three years waiting on a new one. I'm definitely not fast at this . It's now in the rig and the 12 slot bag is full again.
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HI Steve.

I decided to make this bird because buffleheads are a great boy's duck. I choose not to take them anymore, but was a buffie "expert" back in the late '60s. In those days, we lived on a dirt road that ended at a small bay called Buttermilk Bay. It was shallow, full of eelgrass, and a major bufflehead wintering place. I kept an old lapstrake skiff there and used it as a layout for the little butterballs. The decoys were a string of silhouettes that I made in wood shop class.

Good memories.

Matt
 
IF its from Terry D., watch the brazing job of the back of the brand. I sent my back a couple times and then just took to a local shop for rebrazing.
 
After working exclusively in acrylics the past 30 years I finally worked up the courage to try oils. These black ducks were carved and sealed last fall, but my learning curve in the medium brought me to now. I have to say I learned quite a bit though trial and error that will hopefully make the next ones easier. These will go into my personal string and will add a little extra satisfaction to each bird I drop over them. Big thanks to Pete Revicki for his guidance.View attachment 2019 blackduck 1.jpgView attachment Black duck2.jpg
 
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