The Nicholson English Style Workbench - 1 Year Later - Hand Tool Woodworking
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- Опубликовано: 22 окт 2024
- This episode originally aired on May 22, 2011.
It's been about a year since building the new workbench. In that time, I've gotten lots of questions about how I liked the bench, how the construction lumber is holding up, and if I would do anything different. After using the bench for a year, I have to say it is by far my favorite bench of the three I've built so far. Is it perfect? Well, no bench is perfect. But this one comes close for my work.
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Great one-year review! Thanks for making and posting this!
This workbench seems very interesting for many reasons. I know this is an old post, but I'm wondering if you (or anyone who has built this bench) have additional new thoughts about it 10 years later? Any new thoughts about this workbench would be very much appreciated.
Thanks for the review. I built this bench a couple years ago following the RUclips videos by Mike Siemsen, the Viseless Bench. It's been working well however, I would like to put a vise in for smaller work. I too am right handed and the crochet is on the left and was thinking of putting some type of vise on the right. You addressed that issue in this video. Thanks again. The moxen vise seems to be the easiest to make myself. Any suggestions? Anyone?
Mick Cummins It’s a great vise. When I build another, it will be portable though in the more traditional fashion rather than incorporating it into the bench.
@@BRFineWoodworking Thanks for getting back with me. I'm thinking that is a good idea. Then you can remove it when not in use. Are you planning on doing a video when you build it? Would love to see it, but I know that's a lot of extra work... to record the build. I really like your explanations on your builds too.
Mick Cummins I don’t have any immediate plans to build one. I may do a video if I do build one, but for now I just have too many other things going on and no immediate need for another vise.
Hi
Thank you for a very informative video.
i am in the process of making myself a bench, please can i ask you:
the holdowns (16mm), how much wider must the holes be, or should they be the same size?
The front board, is 32mm thick, would a hold down grip, or do i need to increase the thickness.
Lastly, i know you didnt put a finish on, but if you where to, what finish would you use?
Thank you for a great program.
Make the holdfast holes the same size. If you make them bigger, when they wallow out (and they will) they’ll be too wide and the holdfasts will slip.
Board thickness really needs to be at least 48mm for the holdfasts to hold. That’s why I backed my apron with a second 18mm thick board.
I don’t like finished surfaces on workbenches. They’re slippery and allow the work to slip around too much for my liking. But if a gun were held to my head, I’d add one thin coat of boiled linseed oil. I would not, under any circumstance, use any kind of film finish that will build on the surface. Working on such benches is like working on a greased laminate countertop. The first time you try to plane a board on such a surface you’ll fling your work half way across the shop at a speed fast enough to decapitate any small animal in its path.
@@BRFineWoodworking
Thank you very much for such a detailed reply. I appreciate it.
Stay safe and well.
Honestly the bench only needs to be flat enough so that boards you are planing don’t flex in a cup in the top etc. There’s a lot of emphasis placed on extreme flatness but relative flatness is fine. Work benches in the 1700’s and 1800’s were not always very flat and some workbenches were actually a mess compared to what is expected today. Enjoy your bench it looks like it’s serving you well.
Thanks! It has for a good 10 years now.
thank you
A good honest review of his own work . I am going to build this bench . Thanks for the modifications.If you are right handed I cannot see the clocher being able to go anywhere other than where you have put it .
the crochet, you mean?
And where you got the idea from the flip beam in the middle? and the right answer is NOT the samurai carpenter!
Lol