Woodcrafters Bench Part 2

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

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okay now my vision of this bench was not only to be a saw bench but also to be a woodworking bench like adjoining bench that I could use in the woods if I wanted to or at a show or whatever and also to be a shave horse and so I've taken a piece of two-by-six here and I just put a regular hinge on the back not sure I'm going to leave that hinge on there I may just put a solid stop on the back of this thing and use that instead because I want to think I want to be able to get this completely off of here I got to think about that but it's a learning process then I've gotten here just a piece of 4x6 that I have laying around them this is called a cheese block and this was one of the differences between the European bodger's type shave horse and the ones that I see used in the u.s. a lot if this can be removed from the bench and this is not solid to the bench it doesn't go through the bench then that allows a lot more versatility because this thing just slides up in here it can be adjusted for angle here it's not going to move so we can adjust this back and forth depending on the angle we want our work and then we'll have to have our locking device but our locking device will just be a drilled hole through here with all threads and then we'll have like one one-inch material here holding it down and when it's material the bottom for pushing on it to create that vison action but if all of this can be removed and that all thread can just be pulled out of there or it's just a driven pin of some sort in there then that makes this much more versatile because it won't always be a shaving bench it will always be a saw bench and it won't always be a joining bench so I've got to think about that for a minute think about how I want to do this portion while I'm working on this but this cheese block is what you use to adjust your work up and down as you sit astride the bench you lay your work on this and then draw knife from up here okay so we've got a piece of all thread driven through here now we need to set up the vie singing part and we're going to use a 1 by 4 for that I think what we need to figure out is the length of this 1 by 4 what's going to happen it's going to swing forward like this and push a dowel rod down on top of this block basically so if we want it forward to there we want touching our block there and we need to leave room for the DAO we're probably going to need it about this long and again I'm not real good at patterning things I just kinda eyeball them as I go so I'm going to make a mark there then I'm going to measure that see how long that is and I'm going to round it off that's 33 inches so what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut two of them at 34 better to cut it too long the first time into short so we'll cut to three pieces of this and we'll go through there all right so we just drilled 5/8 holes in these and I just eyeball the measurement lengthwise to make sure you got that right and then I round it again I did that 18 inches from the top which is pretty close to the center actually worked out that way now I've got to figure out where I want to put my drill my pilot holes here to put my dowel riding through it just want to clamp down my ruling so when this is pushed down and clamping on wood I'm figuring about six inches down was going to do it so I'm going to mark each one of these six inches and then Center it then drill a hole for my dowel rod okay so now basically drill down that six inches on the one side and four inches on the other side what that's going to do is that

to let these sit on this that's like this again we're going to put a positive stop here now what we'll do is we'll put dowel rods cut some lengths through here like this and I'm just shoving these in here right now I'll show you what we're doing

we're trying to make it right necessarily right now okay we'll get these evened up and then we'll put down rods in this other side shove them in the corner so you can see what we're doing here okay now once we got a positive stop here we adjust our block here our cheese block and then when we push in on this side it's going to lock our piece edge so we've got our positive stop here let's say we want to put a piece of

stock it here draw knife now we push on this bottom part with our foot of course like I said this will be all short out these will be even and all of this stuff will be locked in place but it'll just shows you what's going to happen the pushing action down here with your foot or your key it's going to lock it it up here once we have a positive stop here it won't be able to move and that's going to give us a positive block here on our bodger thing so let's get this a little more shored up and straightened up and then we'll get back at it sure all right so now we have added justement holes to our uprights where our inch and a quarter Dow is going to go through to lock our work down and also where are all thread goes through so we can adjust the height depending on the work that we're working on we also shortened our long platform board our anvil board by four inches we'll talk about that in a few minutes okay so there's no doubt what we got works as a bodger's bench or a makeshift shape horse now we need to think about it as a joining bench for joinery