You have more discipline than me, to hold onto these videos for so long. Also, very, very well edited to pack in so much detail without making the video seem rushed. This bench looks like it will be around for several generations of craftsman to work at.
Thank you. At least someone notice the work that goes into each of everyone of my videos. At the end of the next and last part I say I may hours of stuff I've recorded and how many clips I've imported to the project. I just wanted to show how much work goes into something like that. I've been using it for several month now and it became my go to bench, but I have to admit that if I need to pound something real hard I rather damage my old workbench :) Thanks again
Alain - Thank you for sharing your great videos - you put in SO MUCH work into making this available to us. I love how you are not afraid to show where things go wrong, and how you try to solve things with creativity. Please continue sharing your wisdom with all of us and say hi to your ever helpful wife.
Alain .... Although the video can never reflect it, an incredible amount of time is going into this build, excluding the filming and editing!! Thanks for all your hard work, not being afraid to show the mistakes and their eventual repairs! I usually save your videos untill I have some quiet time to watch and enjoy them!!
Great build! A note on annealing steel: some types require multiple heats - up to three - before the steel is softened to the point where the desired softness has been achieved. Also, the heating could be accomplished with a blowtorch in the specific areas where the drilling will occur; this will minimize the warping of the entire plate. Can't wait to see the rest of the build, Alain!
Thanks, I didn't know that about reheating. Like I said I tried something new. I knew someone would tell me the trick it always seems easy when I watch other people do this.
Yes, I don't expect the last thing I've finished to be up soon.... It's still a lille bit less involved, only 19 hours of footage compare to 24 for this one, but I didn't even started editing yet. But when it takes me, 2 to 4 months to finish a project, I have to hold on my finished project, otherwise I'll endup with month without nothing to show.
Yes I do. I think I have 7 more fully edited. But If I post one each week I'll end up having months without anything to show, so I spread them; an episode every 2 weeks.
When you were planing on the bench itself, I think the humongous downside of the casters became obvious. Wouldn't it have been better to use smaller casters that could be lowered for moving the whole table around and having it stand solitly on its own legs when doing actual work on it? It kinda seems like putting casters on it negated the benefits of it being such a huge slab of wood.
I wanted big casters, so it can roll over small things. And I needed something that can get out of the way. When the casters are lock this barely moves.
Alain is struggling a lot with the drillpress and i hope he make`s a new episode on repairing it! (before something nasty is happening) Keep up with all the good videos!!!!
Is that going to be the exact height of your table saw? If so, I want to see how you do it after routing the top surface for the second time. Love the big hand jointer planes. Want to buy one someday.
If I have to surface it again I'll juyst change the 2x4 undeneat the tablesaw :)) As for the big jointer check at flee market they always have several, but be careful they tend to sell those as antique at ridiculously high price.....
I know.... Grrrr my drill press' puley are broken, I'm unable to cjhange it's speed. So each time I try to drill into hard metal I have this kind of trouble.
how much does it way? and the casters are sturdy enough for it so you can use handtools on it as well? it seems to move a bit more than I would love to see my workbench move :-) but it is a nice solid piece of worksurface now :D
I really can't see the point in using such massive balks of timber especially on the top. Watching the planing at the end, the wheels were locked but it was possible to still push the bench across the floor when planing, so it makes you wonder what the point was. It certainly wasn't for weight to aid stability.
I don't use this workbench for planing, but mostly for cutting dovetails, holding wood after a table saw cut, gluing furniture, light stuff, even if it can hold a lot the way it's build. But all this wood was lying around in the shop doing nothing, now they're useful
Bonjour mr Alain. Pourquoi cette épisode n'existe plus en version française ? Je vois adore jadore vitre travail. J'ai souvent regarder vos vidéos depuis bien longtemps.
Merci beaucoup. Avant de répondre que tous mes vidéos son dans les deux langues, j'ai vérifié. Bien, tu es la première personne qui me dis ça en un an. Quand les pirates m’ont pris ma chaine et ont tous mis mes vidéos en mode privé pour faire leur arnaque, avril dernier, je pensais avoir tout remis mes 750 vidéos en ligne, mais non j'avais oublié celui-ci. Merci encore
Je suis un grand fan j'ai refait mes playlist sur l'atelier et tes gros projets. Je me suis douté que ça avait un rapport avec le piratage de l'année passée. Je suis désolé de t'avoir donné du travail un samedi. J'ai connu ça j'en suis à mon compte RUclips. Du coup je me soit de regarder les vidéo avec ma nouvelle adresse et reliker tes vidéos. Je me demandais as tu des gros projets bois à venir? Bises de France
Ha cette aventure m'a donné pas mal de trouble et de stress inutile, au moins c'est derrière moi. Pas de très gros projet, j'ai un projet que je reporte depuis des mois, il prend pas mal de place dans mon atelier j'espère pouvoir continuer dès demain, mais je ne suis pas sur? J'ai pas fini de monter un épisode qui s'en vient, ça fessait un petit bout que j'en avais pas une de 25 minutes avec 2h, environ, la minutes de montage, pas besoins de dire que ça prend du temps. Par contre nous avons quelques gros projets pour le chalet, du moins en temps là-bas, je ne sais pas combien d'en combien de temps le résultat sera en ligne?
You have more discipline than me, to hold onto these videos for so long. Also, very, very well edited to pack in so much detail without making the video seem rushed.
This bench looks like it will be around for several generations of craftsman to work at.
Thank you. At least someone notice the work that goes into each of everyone of my videos. At the end of the next and last part I say I may hours of stuff I've recorded and how many clips I've imported to the project. I just wanted to show how much work goes into something like that.
I've been using it for several month now and it became my go to bench, but I have to admit that if I need to pound something real hard I rather damage my old workbench :)
Thanks again
Alain - Thank you for sharing your great videos - you put in SO MUCH work into making this available to us. I love how you are not afraid to show where things go wrong, and how you try to solve things with creativity. Please continue sharing your wisdom with all of us and say hi to your ever helpful wife.
Alain .... Although the video can never reflect it, an incredible amount of time is going into this build, excluding the filming and editing!!
Thanks for all your hard work, not being afraid to show the mistakes and their eventual repairs!
I usually save your videos untill I have some quiet time to watch and enjoy them!!
I appreciate how you re used your woods and even the casters,great job
I like the fact that you committed to use left over materials,what a great bench,congrats.
Looking good, Alain!!! Can't want to see it all finished!
Powerful durable workbench. Like!
Enjoy the videos, thanks for sharing. Seems like pulling on wheels and flattening the top was a bigger, tougher job than anticipated.
Looking fantastic Alain, neat trick with the string.
Great progress on your work bench Alain! Looks like it should last many years :^)
you made some massive mistakes there, and its very good of you to show us. great video. this is going to be a really nice looking working platform
I sure hope you let Miss Rene know how much you appreciate her!!!
Good work Maestro!
Great build! A note on annealing steel: some types require multiple heats - up to three - before the steel is softened to the point where the desired softness has been achieved. Also, the heating could be accomplished with a blowtorch in the specific areas where the drilling will occur; this will minimize the warping of the entire plate.
Can't wait to see the rest of the build, Alain!
Thanks, I didn't know that about reheating. Like I said I tried something new.
I knew someone would tell me the trick it always seems easy when I watch other people do this.
Some steels air harden, better to build a good fire and pull it out when the ashes have cooled.
Nathan Tonning h bj
I like the string trick also. Great video
Middle of January?!?! Wow, you really work way ahead on video content. Great looking slab, and great workbench.
Yes, I don't expect the last thing I've finished to be up soon.... It's still a lille bit less involved, only 19 hours of footage compare to 24 for this one, but I didn't even started editing yet. But when it takes me, 2 to 4 months to finish a project, I have to hold on my finished project, otherwise I'll endup with month without nothing to show.
"The measure of a craftsman is how well he covers his mistakes"
Man you park a bus on that sucker. Very nice my friend.
January? Man you have a lot of projects on video, great work!
Yes I do. I think I have 7 more fully edited. But If I post one each week I'll end up having months without anything to show, so I spread them; an episode every 2 weeks.
When you were planing on the bench itself, I think the humongous downside of the casters became obvious.
Wouldn't it have been better to use smaller casters that could be lowered for moving the whole table around and having it stand solitly on its own legs when doing actual work on it? It kinda seems like putting casters on it negated the benefits of it being such a huge slab of wood.
I wanted big casters, so it can roll over small things. And I needed something that can get out of the way. When the casters are lock this barely moves.
Phew, you made me tired just watching. Great job. Regards from Europe free UK.
Alain is struggling a lot with the drillpress and i hope he make`s a new episode on repairing it! (before something nasty is happening)
Keep up with all the good videos!!!!
Perfect job.
On that Router Sled, I added strips of wood to the underside of the ends to keep it from coming off the side. Great Video.
It's what I ended up to do, but I didn't filmed it.....
Excellent...!
Cheers...
Absolument parfait.
Is that going to be the exact height of your table saw? If so, I want to see how you do it after routing the top surface for the second time. Love the big hand jointer planes. Want to buy one someday.
If I have to surface it again I'll juyst change the 2x4 undeneat the tablesaw :))
As for the big jointer check at flee market they always have several, but be careful they tend to sell those as antique at ridiculously high price.....
Loving the look of the bench no matter its flaws. Does look like you were running the drill bits WAY too fast for metal when you failed to make holes.
I know.... Grrrr my drill press' puley are broken, I'm unable to cjhange it's speed. So each time I try to drill into hard metal I have this kind of trouble.
hats off toRene
Wow, I left the underside of my benchtop with scrub plane marks. Character you know :)
how much does it way?
and the casters are sturdy enough for it so you can use handtools on it as well? it seems to move a bit more than I would love to see my workbench move :-)
but it is a nice solid piece of worksurface now :D
Looks like you could use some sort of over head crane system to help move things around.
I'm thinking about it. But for now I just think, mabe someday.....
I really can't see the point in using such massive balks of timber especially on the top. Watching the planing at the end, the wheels were locked but it was possible to still push the bench across the floor when planing, so it makes you wonder what the point was. It certainly wasn't for weight to aid stability.
I don't use this workbench for planing, but mostly for cutting dovetails, holding wood after a table saw cut, gluing furniture, light stuff, even if it can hold a lot the way it's build. But all this wood was lying around in the shop doing nothing, now they're useful
Bonjour mr Alain.
Pourquoi cette épisode n'existe plus en version française ?
Je vois adore jadore vitre travail. J'ai souvent regarder vos vidéos depuis bien longtemps.
Merci beaucoup. Avant de répondre que tous mes vidéos son dans les deux langues, j'ai vérifié.
Bien, tu es la première personne qui me dis ça en un an. Quand les pirates m’ont pris ma chaine et ont tous mis mes vidéos en mode privé pour faire leur arnaque, avril dernier, je pensais avoir tout remis mes 750 vidéos en ligne, mais non j'avais oublié celui-ci.
Merci encore
En passant, il est maintenant disponible en français
Je suis un grand fan j'ai refait mes playlist sur l'atelier et tes gros projets. Je me suis douté que ça avait un rapport avec le piratage de l'année passée. Je suis désolé de t'avoir donné du travail un samedi.
J'ai connu ça j'en suis à mon compte RUclips. Du coup je me soit de regarder les vidéo avec ma nouvelle adresse et reliker tes vidéos.
Je me demandais as tu des gros projets bois à venir?
Bises de France
Ha cette aventure m'a donné pas mal de trouble et de stress inutile, au moins c'est derrière moi.
Pas de très gros projet, j'ai un projet que je reporte depuis des mois, il prend pas mal de place dans mon atelier j'espère pouvoir continuer dès demain, mais je ne suis pas sur? J'ai pas fini de monter un épisode qui s'en vient, ça fessait un petit bout que j'en avais pas une de 25 minutes avec 2h, environ, la minutes de montage, pas besoins de dire que ça prend du temps. Par contre nous avons quelques gros projets pour le chalet, du moins en temps là-bas, je ne sais pas combien d'en combien de temps le résultat sera en ligne?
very nica that you actualy show as your mistakes, we are all just peaple. also i realize you say hole insted of ole, what happend?:)
The darn "H"'s is hard to pronounce but I try to make somme efforts but don't worry I'll misprononce it again :))
i like your videos with or without, it's part of french accent :)
wait, what...?
The middle of January?
Yes I'm that behind in my editing. So expect shorts and green grass when the ground will have a nice white colour :))
Why didn't you go to some company where you would had used some a big thicknesses planer? It would had been easier and faster way.
Yes but I didn't wanted to move the top. And since I only had one top to surface it was not a very big deal
This is the worst planned project among all the cool things you have built, what happened?
Glue must be really cheap at your supplier... ;-))
Not really, but I figure that I rather waste a little bit of glue and be sure that the joint won't unglue itself, like manufactured furniture.
Drilling the steel was quite difficult because your bit speed was far too high. Cut it down to < 500rpm and it will go a lot better next time.
If I can put new pulleys it's what I'll do. But for now the pulleys of my drill press are broken and I'm stuck at this speed...
ah, that's a bummer