100 lines
4.4 KiB
Markdown
100 lines
4.4 KiB
Markdown
# An Anarchist Workbench
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Inspired by the book [Anarchists Workbench](https://lostartpress.com/products/the-anarchists-workbench) by Christopher Schwarz
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You can download the excellent book as a free pdf from his website.
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- Build from leftover pieces of Douglas Fir and some Spruce
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- LxWxH 175x62x90 cm
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- Weight aprox. 90 kg
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- Repurposed inherited very old Beech legvise with a steel and cast iron spindle
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- 19 mm dogholes and Gramercy holdfasts
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- Pop up mortised planing stop (ebay)
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- Glued with aprox. 2.3 kg PVA type 3
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Download CAD drawing: [workbench.pdf](drawing/workbench.pdf)
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110154118.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110215576.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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## Construction
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Build alsmost exclusivly with handtools. Just used an electric drill and drillpress for the holes, a circular saw for sawing off the benchtop ends and ripping the lumber lengthwise and a electric sander.
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- Stanley nr 4 and 5
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- Gyokucho Ryoba japanese pull saw
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### Preparing Stock
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Glued and doweled pieces together for the benchtop.
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20240922_133627686.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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Everything handplaned straigth, flat and true.
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20240922_133613964.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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### Replacing broken Stanley Nr 5 Handle
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Made new handles from Meranti hardwood, the plastic ones cracked.
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20240831_101541440.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20240903_153242335.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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### Benchtop glue up
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Each beam connected to the next with 5 throughhole 12mm Beech dowels.
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First the centre 3 beams.
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Then adding a beam on both sides at a time.
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So 4 glue ups.
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Clamping with F-clamps, ratchet straps and construction screws later replaced by dowels.
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Glued with PVA type 3.
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20240922_172002980.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20240927_132834207.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20240928_093143253.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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### Flatten benchtop with handplanes
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20240928_134256824.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20240928_130024104.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20240929_183600145.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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### Legs and stretchers
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241014_154601786.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241015_084727951.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241016_095014365.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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### Benchtop mortise
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241020_121359507.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241020_124457476.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241020_151738436.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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### Assembly
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All mortise and tenon joints glued with PVA and drawbored with 12mm Beech dowels.
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My lovely partner helped with glueing and assembly because i wanted to do it quickly before the glue started curing.
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241018_173745496.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241025_134323129.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241025_183551912.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241025_183613050.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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### Legvise
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Resawed and planed old beech legvise.
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Jaw lined with leather, glued with contact cement.
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Handle made of Ash broomstick. Holesawed beech knobs and sanded them on the drillpress.
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241011_150904137.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241111_105849679.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110244935.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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### Finishing
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Some gaps en tears filled with epoxy.
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Finished with homemade Danish Oil.
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2 Coats applied with cotton rags.
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My partner helped with the finishing.
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1/3 Boiled linseed oil
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1/3 Spar varnish (bootlak)
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1/3 White spirit (terpentine)
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241118_091743242.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241118_091629211.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241118_091649520.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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### Accesories
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Clamps and benchdogs, 19mm dogholes, Gramercy holdfasts
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110228591.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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Pop up morticed planing stop from Ebay.
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110258859.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
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