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Woodrobot

Locality: Gold Coast, Queensland

Phone: +61 408 329 538

Address: 21 Lavinia Street, Southport 4215 Gold Coast, QLD, Australia

Website: http://woodrobot.com.au

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22.01.2022 Workbench continued. Bit of catching up to do, Ok time to trim the leg tenons protruding through the top using a flush cut saw. Next, pre fitting of the vices and timber vice jaws. Also a pre fit of the sliding deadman and the rail it runs on.

22.01.2022 Teak Rocket Lamps on Floating Teak Shelves.

22.01.2022 Workbench continued. Fitting the dovetailed bottom rails and cutting out a rebate in them to take a Tassie Oak plywood shelf. Making a trench with the router under the front top rail, this is for the sliding deadman , a device to help hold the work piece along with the front vise. Then finally legs and bottom rails glued together and to the top. Sliding deadman taking shape.

21.01.2022 Work bench continued. Top still upside down, working out the position of the vices. It’s a good idea to keep your off cuts as it helps to work things out and visualise ideas, along with drawings.

21.01.2022 Top face up now showing the oak. Frame has biscuits added and dry fitted to top. Leg mortises transferred to top and cut out using handsaw, jigsaw and chisels. Rebates on frame to take legs started by cutting out bulk on dropsaw using rebate height stop.

19.01.2022 Next project - wall hung hand tool cabinet. First pic is an example of what I’m aiming for, something that provides lots of storage but doesn’t take up too much area. It also protects the tools from rusting in our humid and salty environment where I live, being only a few kilometres from the ocean.

18.01.2022 Wouldn’t be a Woodrobot workbench without a Woodrobot logo addition. This one’s Syrian Cedar with pigmented epoxy then inset into the front face. Next pics are of checking the top for flatness and any twists using string lines. Ended up being pretty well perfect, thankfully. Final sanding of the top, then first coat of varnish. Also a change of colour for the vice faces, from factory blue to a golden hammered metal finish.

17.01.2022 Leg tenons, planned, drawn and cut out on the table saw.

17.01.2022 Finally, glueing the face frame on, using epoxy glue with a strengthening / thickening additive and some wood dust for colour. Plenty of glue oozing out of the joints, which is good to see and fills/hides the gaps. Just about every clamp utilised as usual trying to hold things together. One of the aims in building this workbench is to have a very stable, flat, true and square surface. It will be used as a reference for future works to be built upon, so I’m aiming at havin...g it accurate to within 0.5 of a millimeter. Last pic - I have a favouritism towards Japanese hand tools. See more

14.01.2022 Bluetooth Speaker Boom Box, Australian Red Cedar.

14.01.2022 For this project I decided to build a few jigs to help with the tasks. First I made a sliding cross cut sled, an important addition long overdue. Next was a couple of jigs to cut dovetails with as I had 128 joint cuts to make. After they were done I cut out the waste on the bandsaw and finished with chisels. Then it was time to setup the dado blade in the saw bench to make a rebate for the back panel.

10.01.2022 Upside down again, fitting the legs into their mortises and working out the position of the bottom rails. Then jigs and more jigs to cut the half lap dovetail joints between the rails and legs. This joint is the strongest of all woodworking joints. Also tricky when you have the two meeting in the corner. So you have to mitre the ends and when cutting the leg recess you can’t allow the cut to run right through... it’s an angle thing. I got the first one wrong, you might pick it if you look closely.

09.01.2022 Workbench continued Weekly catchup Trimming the dovetailed corners flush and planning the frame to be flush with the top.

08.01.2022 Tool cabinet continued. After fitting all the dovetailed pieces together and preparing the back panel it was time to sand all the internal areas and glue it together. This also consisted of adding a shelf which was rebated into the side pieces for strength. Back panel is 16mm oak faced plywood, there is a space behind the panel to accommodate a French cleat , which is a method of securely hanging it on the wall, pics later.

08.01.2022 Big day of sanding, with the belt sander then orbital. Starting with 80 grit then 120, 180 and soft pads. Clean up, then first sealer coat of varnish. Can see the colour of the timber change now and the joints become more defined.

07.01.2022 Been a while since the last post and there’s been quite a few projects that have been undocumented. However I have some time at the moment to share the latest creation. It’s a dedicated work bench, something I’ve needed and wanted for a very long time. Yes I know it’s just a work bench....... boring, but to me it’s quite interesting and a challenge to get it right. I’ve already been a couple of weeks on this project and anticipate it will take a few more. ... So far I’ve been sorting through timber and preparing it as most is recycled Tasmanian Oak and for the legs another variety of Aussie hardwood (old veranda posts). The top is made and consists of 3 laminations of 16mm MDF with a 12mm Oak top layer. Tops frame is solid oak with dovetailed joints, mid supports and rebated to take the laminated top. See more

05.01.2022 Workbench continued. Finally finished... Making the vice handles - red oak dowel with red cedar knobs. Working out the dog hole positions, then drilling them x 21. This process took a lot of time as I had to work around the vice structure and find the optimised positions. Varnishing the vice pieces, deadman etc. ... Then final photos after assembly. I will make a short video soon showing all the functions , just waiting on delivery of the dog clamps. See more

04.01.2022 Workbench continued. Positioning the vises for drilling and finding the hole centres using dowels with centring bits in the end of them. Drilling the holes using a forsner bit on the drill press, through the frame and vise jaws before assembly. These holes need to be accurate as they are for the vise guide rods and main screw rod.

04.01.2022 Workbench pics. Laminated top (upside down), some of the frame and plans.

03.01.2022 Midnight cocktail cabinet. Ebonised Oak, Walnut, brass.