The Ultimate Upcycled bench

Part 4. Where the ideas start to become a drawing and the first joint done.

There's a lot of woodworking going on in this video. Working a few things out to transform the old bench into a chunky solid bench that is inspired by the look of the Sjöbergs Elite 2000.

Here's the link to the latest video.

https://youtu.be/BM0MRQ31IRE

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Jamie

https://youtu.be/BM0MRQ31IRE

Sjöbergs From Scrap Part 3

To allow me to build this bench without too much moving around. I need a space for it.

Somewhere it can sit that's not in the way. 

And some of the workshop has other 'stuff' in the way, like the old headboards. #upcycling the Oak headboards is a future project, but they're in the way and I need the space. 

So, the Oak headboards get cut down. Then machined to a thickness that could be useful for drawers and door fronts on the bench. 

Then I've got some unfinished jobs in front of the machines I need to use. So they needed completing this week. 

Some useful #woodworking tips in this video too. watch the video

So let me know in the comments what you like best. 

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Jamie 

Sjöbergs From Scrap bench Part 2

Planning time. Vice, hold fasts, bench height,  and using 'pre-loved' parts.

A good understanding of what you want on bench is needed at this point, and where? The most important part. How will it all fit into the design?

And then.. I found the vice out that will be fitted to the Sjöbergs From Scrap Bench. With it being second hand and a bit untidy. I set about trying to remove the vice checks (made from Beech) an alternative way to remove them using an Axe and topping up the firewood collection at the same time.

You can watch the full video here

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Jamie 

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Sjöbergs From Scrap bench

It's time. I need another bench in the workshop and I've got everything I need to make this work.

Over the next few weeks I'll be building a superb Cabinet Makers Bench.

A bench that will hold its own in a wonderful workshop and learning environment.

This video takes us through the start of this journey and I give the reasons to make a bench this way. 

I also go into the costs of all the parts I will need. 

Well worth a watch

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Jamie 

Oak & Beech boards

Well, the last projects. Will I get the last present finished..?

Chloe putting the #Beeswax finish on the #nandoschicken board

To see the finishing on the board in the picture, follow the link here

And that piece of Oak I mentioned in the video was a loose leaf off an Art Deco dining table (there were two loose and two fixed) . Gifted to me to cut up and put the Wood to good use.

The table was 3" lower than normal and the owner had tried to sell it, with no luck selling she gave it to me. I found the frame of the table was mahogany with thick cut veneers covering the long timbers.

I went through every leaf and found a very wide straight, quarter sawn piece that took the table back over 200 years. With it being Art Deco design that added another 110 years or so. And I followed the curves of the annual rings to plot the pith..

Planted around 1660.

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Jamie 

Cutting Holly and other tips - And Storm Darragh

A Saturday in the workshop with a Storm Going on outside.

Matt had missed a couple of weeks, so I asked him to join me on this Saturday. 

Firstly the vice was very squeaky and I got it all wrong by mixing oil with pencil lead to lubricate it. I'm sure it'll be fine. 

Then I needed to split a Holly log. Now Holly is blooming hard to split. So that was not as quick and easy as I thought. 

Then onto shaping more legs
watch the video here

The best collection of out takes in a while

Take a look if you can spare a few ninutes

All the best

Jamie 

Bandsaw Blade Fitting - DeWalt DW739

I've built boats, cars, church furniture and all sort of things over the years. And you find out very quickly when it happens that service, restoration, replacing parts is sometimes more important than the creating of the piece. 

So you build in ways to make it work for you or the guys to build, but also make it easy for the service guy/ engineer who has to change the washing machine in the companion way on a 60 foot yacht. 

And when you're craning in a module of two compartments (one toilet and one shower) There has to be extra parts to make that work, but will probably never used again. 

Stay with me, I am getting to my point here. I was a build for manufacturing guy. The one who made things work out for everyone. 

So when someone designs a Bandsaw. The most important thing about the bandsaw HAS to be to make the blade changes quick and as simple as possible. And with that, as SAFE as possible. 

The DeWalt 739 is a tricky little bandsaw to change the blade and it really didn't have to be that way. I can see it really didn't need you to move two adjusters out of the way AND twist the blade 90°. 

But if they really had to make it that way, then the thing to do would be to make it known that it was tricky. 

The instructions were vague at least. 

As a manufacturer you want to make it easy to get that machine up and running. So my solution would be a sticker inside the top wheel door, showing the process, and more details in the instructions... Not less. 

Helping out, by not only going to the school and fitting the new blade. But by filming it so the video can be used again and again as an instructional video.

Watch the video here

#dewalt #dewalt739

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All the best 

Jamie