Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: NTD on March 15, 2011, 12:51:04 am
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The type of people that are on this forum. Bevan had PM'd me some info about building work benches after reading my shop cleaning thread. After a few exchanges he asked for my address and said he had something that was taking up space in his shop. I got home today to find this!!! I was and am truly dumbfounded by his generosity. I now really need to get a bench built so I can put this baby to use. Thanks Bevan!
(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l144/NDanforth83/101_2539.jpg)
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Sweeet! And you'd think the way he's always trying to chisel a free bow outa me that he's poor as a churchmouse! >:D
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nice 8)
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Nice bench vise. I'm never surprised anymore. I knowhow generous our gang is! 8)
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Thats great! Post up a pic when you get it set up!!
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a guy that couldnt use that must be out of wood. great gesture
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Thats cool! I agree the people on this site are great! I also think stick bow builders in general are more giving than most as well. I was at John Strunks a couple days ago and told him I needed to get a bench press he reached under his work bench and gave me a bran new Stave Press :o said he never used it. I told him I would work it off with yard work or something while he was at the bowyers safari ;D this summer
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That is super cool! I was doing some digging on the web for serious bench plans like the type that vise accommodates but then I started to do the math on what the wood would run me I decided that it could wait a year or two or at least until I have a few bows under my belt ;D
I'd love to see the bench also when you get it set up.
This group really does rock...
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Here's the bench plans that I'm going to do. Well it'll be similar to these.
http://americanwoodworker.com/blogs/projects/archive/2009/03/04/tom-s-torsion-box-workbench.aspx
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Here's the bench plans that I'm going to do. Well it'll be similar to these.
http://americanwoodworker.com/blogs/projects/archive/2009/03/04/tom-s-torsion-box-workbench.aspx
Excellent link, thanks a ton! Seems much more affordable than some of the hardwood block topped type I was finding. Much appreciated!
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Lee,
Here a picture of my first bench. It cost less than $100. Very solid.
Also here is the reason there is no room for the vice I gave Nathen. I have 2 of these that are going onto the third bench.
Bevan R
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That looks pretty dang sturdy as well Bevan. I am currently using some cheap steel slot & knob bench I picked up at Menard's back when I was building AR-15's. It has a typical bench vise on it but the whole things rocks, shakes and shimmies everything onto the floor when I do an work with the drawknife or rasps. Do those style of vise work pretty well? Thanks again for the pics...very cool.
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Bevan,
So you sent me the purty brand new one and kept the rusted up oldie for yourself huh? ;)
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Nathen,
I could not afford to pay the shipping on these 'old' vices. they are stout. They have been in the garage collecting dust waiting for the new shop.
I inherited a matched set from my father. He got them from the local school when they 'upgraded' their shop.
Going to put them on a shorter version of the bench so I can clamp longer stock edgewise.
Bevan R
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Nathen,
I could not afford to pay the shipping on these 'old' vices. they are stout. They have been in the garage collecting dust waiting for the new shop.
I inherited a matched set from my father. He got them from the local school when they 'upgraded' their shop.
Going to put them on a shorter version of the bench so I can clamp longer stock edgewise.
Bevan R
I'm just teasing you Bevan, You are too generous!
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Didn't think you were Nathen. Just letting you know I kept the 'good' ones for myself. >:D
Bevan R
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That's a good thing ;)
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I always seem to gravitate to the old and rusty tools rather than the nice and shiney new ones. Bet I'm not the only one in here doing that! Something about using the old stuff, kinda like hoping some of the old worker's talents are still lingering in the tools.
I carry (And under certain circumstances) an old clay pipe that was made in Jamestown, Virginia Colony, New World circa 1700. I've had other historical re-enactors go into epileptic fits that I am risking such an old piece of history out On The Trail. To which I heartily reply, "Eh."
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Well after our discussion on old vises and benches I was talking with a coworker (happens to be the same guy who gave me free run of his Osage woodlot) and mentioned I was going to be starting on a Work Bench build. He smiled at me and walked over to his work bench and opened one of the lower cabinet doors and pulled this out and handed it to me!
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_neJ--vb8EaA/TZobo3ufpNI/AAAAAAAABBw/A61cjNVU9SI/s800/CIMG0614.JPG)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_neJ--vb8EaA/TZob6tJtOVI/AAAAAAAABB4/dm_7cKusEcE/s800/CIMG0615.JPG)
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_neJ--vb8EaA/TZocKglzH7I/AAAAAAAABCM/cbIaZkgMxXc/s800/CIMG0616.JPG)
He said he has been shoving it around in his workbench at work for 3 years waiting for a reason to use it and when he heard that I was attempting to make bows he said he knew he had found "his" use for the vise.
I guess it's a "two faced" or bi-face type vise that is intended to be mounted on the corner of a work bench and can very efficiently clamp stock both vertical and horizontal. Pretty dang cool...anyway, time to settle in on a set of plans and get to work.
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Cool looking vice from a generous fellow. I am looking forward to seeing it mounted.
Bevan R