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I have been thinking about building a my own work bench for a while now. But a neighbor at the end of my street had this bench for sale.
I bought it for a $100. While I was looking at it all I could think about is how great the RO125 would clean this up.
While chatting with the neighbor (Mike) I had the Festool shirt on, so we got to talking about Festool a little. Mike was nice to bring the bench down in
his truck. Once we unloaded the bench he looked around my shop and was a little bit shocked. Because when he first asked me if I have any Festool tools
I kinda told him that I had a couple. I told Mike I was going to sand it down and put some boiled linseed oil on it and to stop by any time he wanted.
Mikes Father build this bench some years back.
It's solid Maple. I don't think I could buy the materials needed for $100, so I feel like I scored big time on this bench. I'm trying to get into using
hand tools. I'm working on building my hand tool collection up. I want to build some projects using ONLY hand tools. So this bench is a nice addition
to my small collection.
I only sanded the top down to 150 grit. I still need to pull out the DTS400 and DX93 for the sides and legs.
Oh and you will see by the photos that the concrete contractor needs to get back over to the my house and finish grading, forming and pouring my new
driveway. I have a nice basketball hoop sitting in the garage that my nephews keep asking me about [big grin].
Check out the pics.
This is what it looked like when I bought it....
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Mikes dad had coated it with some type of wax, so I used a hand scrapper first. But I still used 3 pieces of 40 grit. It gummed up fast.
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Real men use the RO125 in aggressive mode with one hand and 40 grit [tongue]
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So after scrapping and sanding for 2 hours, I got the top sanded down with 150 grit. I think I'll hit it with 180 and 220 and coat it....after I sand the rest of coarse.
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Thanks for looking.
Eric
I bought it for a $100. While I was looking at it all I could think about is how great the RO125 would clean this up.
While chatting with the neighbor (Mike) I had the Festool shirt on, so we got to talking about Festool a little. Mike was nice to bring the bench down in
his truck. Once we unloaded the bench he looked around my shop and was a little bit shocked. Because when he first asked me if I have any Festool tools
I kinda told him that I had a couple. I told Mike I was going to sand it down and put some boiled linseed oil on it and to stop by any time he wanted.
Mikes Father build this bench some years back.
It's solid Maple. I don't think I could buy the materials needed for $100, so I feel like I scored big time on this bench. I'm trying to get into using
hand tools. I'm working on building my hand tool collection up. I want to build some projects using ONLY hand tools. So this bench is a nice addition
to my small collection.
I only sanded the top down to 150 grit. I still need to pull out the DTS400 and DX93 for the sides and legs.
Oh and you will see by the photos that the concrete contractor needs to get back over to the my house and finish grading, forming and pouring my new
driveway. I have a nice basketball hoop sitting in the garage that my nephews keep asking me about [big grin].
Check out the pics.
This is what it looked like when I bought it....
[attachimg=#]
Mikes dad had coated it with some type of wax, so I used a hand scrapper first. But I still used 3 pieces of 40 grit. It gummed up fast.
[attachimg=#]
Real men use the RO125 in aggressive mode with one hand and 40 grit [tongue]
[attachimg=#]
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So after scrapping and sanding for 2 hours, I got the top sanded down with 150 grit. I think I'll hit it with 180 and 220 and coat it....after I sand the rest of coarse.
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Thanks for looking.
Eric
