Certainteed
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- May 8, 2009
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I bought this house 3 years ago with plans to make a nice shop in the garage. Well after our divorce money was tight so I started buying budget tools. Foolishly I bought NEW budget tools.
This past weekend I picked up a Rockwell drill press from the mid-50's and a Rockwell Delta table saw from the mid-60's. My "new" tools have been spread amongst my friends at rock-bottom prices. Lesson learned.
Anyway, I built a workbench in my garage a few weeks ago. I call it my legacy because it will out-live me. I doubled 2x4's for legs, connected them with 2x6's, and mortised the whole works. I went cheap on the top: two layers of re-purposed counter top. I'm thinking about laminating 2x4's on end and replacing the mdf, but I'm not sure I'm ready to give up the formica surface
the bench is strong enough to park my car on and thats whats important.
I found this site through the Jockey Journal. Back before I became a big-bag-harley owner, I had a chopped honda. I hope to someday have another honda... built my me, of course. Once the garage is tooled and organized, I'll begin that process.
I don't have any experience with metal except one metal shop class in high school. Wood is a different story: I took every wood shop class I could get, and worked in a sawmill for awhile, as well as a fab shop for a few years (we did shipping crates for one-off computer systems. it was crazy-fun work).
I'm rusty now. Haven't really eye-balled anything in 10-12 years, but i've had a lot of fun these past few weeks. I did build a few row boats a few years ago but those where knock-togethered out of scrap.
I've been collecting lots of good info from this site since I found it and I really hope to contribute something of value in the future.
This past weekend I picked up a Rockwell drill press from the mid-50's and a Rockwell Delta table saw from the mid-60's. My "new" tools have been spread amongst my friends at rock-bottom prices. Lesson learned.
Anyway, I built a workbench in my garage a few weeks ago. I call it my legacy because it will out-live me. I doubled 2x4's for legs, connected them with 2x6's, and mortised the whole works. I went cheap on the top: two layers of re-purposed counter top. I'm thinking about laminating 2x4's on end and replacing the mdf, but I'm not sure I'm ready to give up the formica surface
the bench is strong enough to park my car on and thats whats important.I found this site through the Jockey Journal. Back before I became a big-bag-harley owner, I had a chopped honda. I hope to someday have another honda... built my me, of course. Once the garage is tooled and organized, I'll begin that process.
I don't have any experience with metal except one metal shop class in high school. Wood is a different story: I took every wood shop class I could get, and worked in a sawmill for awhile, as well as a fab shop for a few years (we did shipping crates for one-off computer systems. it was crazy-fun work).
I'm rusty now. Haven't really eye-balled anything in 10-12 years, but i've had a lot of fun these past few weeks. I did build a few row boats a few years ago but those where knock-togethered out of scrap.
I've been collecting lots of good info from this site since I found it and I really hope to contribute something of value in the future.