{"id":841,"date":"2018-08-04T21:18:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T21:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/?p=841"},"modified":"2018-08-05T01:03:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T01:03:52","slug":"making-a-compact-working-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/04\/making-a-compact-working-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a Compact Working Bench"},"content":{"rendered":"

The design and dimension are from Wood Magazine issue 252, March 2018, modified slightly, you guessed it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Plans called for 4 each\u00a0 2\u201dx5 \u00bd\u201d \u00a0for both top and lower section.\u00a0 Obviously, the 2×3 looks like a butcher top and is slightly wider by no less than 5\u201d.\u00a0 So, the plans call out a wooden type vice on one corner.\u00a0 Well let me tell you, this was the challenge! I got the holes ok almost exact on the bench\u00a0 piece.\u00a0 Then I mounted the base and my challenge began.\u00a0 I kept thinking after mounting the support base that my holes were off so much that the mechanics of the vice could not handle the slight off.<\/span><\/p>\n

A breakthrough happened after losing a couple of screws on the mounting plate when the vice began to work smoothly.\u00a0 I then put a couple of washers under the mounting plate and glued down the screws and now it works smooth.\u00a0 Go figure it was the mounting plate and not my measurements of the locations of the holes that allow the vice to operate.\u00a0 What a challenge to figure out.
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Well,\u00a0 I finished up the bench areas that are visible.\u00a0 The total cost is estimated for wood and hardware is around $300.00.\u00a0 The total time for cutting and putting together is around 3 + weeks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I chose a dark wood stain as it is a workbench.\u00a0 Then I placed a High Gloss Tung Oil over the stain.\u00a0 The results seem to be great and using Tung Oil saved a lot of time over putting three coats of varnish over the stain.\u00a0 No Sanding required and no bubbles.\u00a0 Also, I was able to use shop towels to spread the Tung Oil so, no brush to clean\u00a0 up \ud83d\ude42 !
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The design and dimension are from Wood Magazine issue 252, March 2018, modified slightly, you guessed it. The bench is made from solid wood Plans called for 4 each\u00a0 2\u201dx5 \u00bd\u201d \u00a0for both top and lower section.\u00a0 Obviously, the 2×3 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnlyman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}