Here are some photos of my very-new-woodworker hallway bench. It's made of some salvaged jatoba boards that were victims of bad bookcase design, heavy books, and gravity. The Festool stars of the project are a Domino Joiner in tandem with a CT Mini. I did everything else with hand tools.
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The first photo shows the top of the bench during finishing. The finish is pure tung oil, mainly because my only workspace is the end of the counter in a galley kitchen, little people (7 and 4 years old) are about, and it's winter. In the picture you can see there was a cool grain pattern hiding under the dark brown finish that was originally on the stock. The top is a pair of 5.5" wide pieces held together mainly by some #6 dominos. My edge jointing skills with a #4 smoothing plane and glue-up with my motley collection of clamps were only going to be modestly successful, so I called in the reinforcements.
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The second photo shows the rest of the bench. My wife insisted on a solid bottom shelf. There are two long aprons supporting the top. The pierced sides are actually sets of small pieces attached with glue and #4 Dominos. It was an excuse to use the Domino Joiner a bunch of times.
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I took another photo with my original Sketchup plan. The bench turned out pretty well considering my lack of experience with both CAD and real fabrication.
Some more Domino details... I first assembled and glued up the base, with #6 Dominos attaching the bottom shelf and the long aprons to the sides. I then mortised holes on the base for the top. There are two #6 Dominos near the middle of each apron, and four #6 Dominos along the top of each pierced side. Hopefully there won't be any explosive issues related to wood movement, since the grain on the side sections is vertical. We'll see...
A problem I had that I mentioned in another thread in the jigs and ideas section is that at least one of the mortise holes in the side was slightly rotated, leading to some final fitting challenges. The side sections of the base weren't perfectly flat, and in the corners I didn't have much wood for reference lines, so I did a bit of novice do-your-best dice-rolling, and broke even, kind of.
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This last picture is of the bench in its destination hallway. My daughter took the liberty of decorating it with festive four-year-old stuff for the holidays. The customer, er, I mean my wife, envisions it having a cushion on top and kid shoes lined up neatly on the shelf.
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The first photo shows the top of the bench during finishing. The finish is pure tung oil, mainly because my only workspace is the end of the counter in a galley kitchen, little people (7 and 4 years old) are about, and it's winter. In the picture you can see there was a cool grain pattern hiding under the dark brown finish that was originally on the stock. The top is a pair of 5.5" wide pieces held together mainly by some #6 dominos. My edge jointing skills with a #4 smoothing plane and glue-up with my motley collection of clamps were only going to be modestly successful, so I called in the reinforcements.
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The second photo shows the rest of the bench. My wife insisted on a solid bottom shelf. There are two long aprons supporting the top. The pierced sides are actually sets of small pieces attached with glue and #4 Dominos. It was an excuse to use the Domino Joiner a bunch of times.
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I took another photo with my original Sketchup plan. The bench turned out pretty well considering my lack of experience with both CAD and real fabrication.
Some more Domino details... I first assembled and glued up the base, with #6 Dominos attaching the bottom shelf and the long aprons to the sides. I then mortised holes on the base for the top. There are two #6 Dominos near the middle of each apron, and four #6 Dominos along the top of each pierced side. Hopefully there won't be any explosive issues related to wood movement, since the grain on the side sections is vertical. We'll see...
A problem I had that I mentioned in another thread in the jigs and ideas section is that at least one of the mortise holes in the side was slightly rotated, leading to some final fitting challenges. The side sections of the base weren't perfectly flat, and in the corners I didn't have much wood for reference lines, so I did a bit of novice do-your-best dice-rolling, and broke even, kind of.
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This last picture is of the bench in its destination hallway. My daughter took the liberty of decorating it with festive four-year-old stuff for the holidays. The customer, er, I mean my wife, envisions it having a cushion on top and kid shoes lined up neatly on the shelf.
