Split Top Roubo Bench Build

[iamnothim]

After 2 1/2 hours and using every tool in the shop, I have completed one dog. 
Thanks for all the input and support.

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[VW mick]

Looking good

I'm really enjoying this thread

But hey you could have just drilled a 20mm hole and bought some quas dogs lol 

 

[iamnothim]

Looking good

I'm really enjoying this thread

But hey you could have just drilled a 20mm hole and bought some quas dogs lol

[smile]

 

[iamnothim]

I've completed two more, but I did take off for a sandwich.
At this rate, I'm thinking next Tues.

I made one with the little babinga top.  I like it a lot more than I thought I would.  When it's flush the grain looks very nice.  I have to work on keeping them level.

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[iamnothim]

Standing back and looking.....
I picked an awful piece of maple to use as the dog strip.  [sad]

 

[rmwarren]

This thread is impressive and perhaps a record:

1.  Started on 4/5
2.  205 posts to date (now 206)
3.  Veered off to stereo amplifiers, then back
4.  OP has presented nearly daily updates of the actual project/topic of the thread
5.  Personally, I visit it several times a day

Kudos to you, [member=28483]iamnothim[/member]

RMW

 

[iamnothim]

This thread is impressive and perhaps a record:

1.  Started on 4/5
2.  205 posts to date (now 206)
3.  Veered off to stereo amplifiers, then back
4.  OP has presented nearly daily updates of the actual project/topic of the thread
5.  Personally, I visit it several times a day

Kudos to you, [member=28483]iamnothim[/member]

RMW

Shucks.
It's what I do.

 

[iamnothim]

Stoked !!!!
My plane bases arrived from TableSawTom.  All flat, smooth, and square.
I think there are before photos a few pages back.

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[iamnothim]

Those planes turned out great.  I am going to send mine to him.

He really did a great job, and very reasonable.
I'm selling this one.

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[Gene Davis]

So what about that heavy new Woodriver 4-1/2 you said you were buying?

 

[Red Devil]

Epic thread!
Bubinga is amazing wood!
So hard and oily but takes a shape and a polish so well.
I used to make custom hand drums ( African style Djembes) out of it back in the nineties.
It used to be fairly affordable up here, but not anymore..
Your planes would have to be razor sharp too plane end grain bubinga. Check out the Veritas
Mk11 sharpening system ftom Lee Valley. It's awesome.
Nice work on the thread,

Nigel

 

[iamnothim]

So what about that heavy new Woodriver 4-1/2 you said you were buying?

I'm returning it.  (see below) I could have shortened the cap screw but I felt I shouldn't have to.
It's a real beefy and looks great.  I did not sharpen the blade because I knew at that point it was going back so it did not have a good feel when I tried it.

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[Tinker]

So what about that heavy new Woodriver 4-1/2 you said you were buying?

I'm returning it.  (see below) I could have shortened the cap screw but I felt I shouldn't have to.
It's a real beefy and looks great.  I did not sharpen the blade because I knew at that point it was going back so it did not have a good feel when I tried it.

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I have not knowingly bought any hand tools made in China.  I understand it is like playing roulet with picking good, or even half good quality.  Your problem is just one more report that is all to common. 
Tinker

 

[iamnothim]

Epic thread!
Bubinga is amazing wood!
So hard and oily but takes a shape and a polish so well.
I used to make custom hand drums ( African style Djembes) out of it back in the nineties.
It used to be fairly affordable up here, but not anymore..
Your planes would have to be razor sharp too plane end grain bubinga. Check out the Veritas
Mk11 sharpening system ftom Lee Valley. It's awesome.
Nice work on the thread,

Nigel

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[iamnothim]

Still working on the dogs and they are "ok"  I'd say a "C" or "C-"
The photos illustrate something that frustrates the (&^#& out of me.  Always has.

That is, I can usually make something once and have it turn out good, but I have to make 15 identical things?  Forget about it.  Even with a jig, I'll mount the piece a little this way or that.  So it comes close but it's not nuts on.  I have one dog/hole combo, out of fifteen, that is nuts on.  Tight fit and flush to the top.

The problem with the dogs is multiplied by the fact that the holes might be routed a tad different too.
Part of it is my impatience during a "production run".  I simply loose sight of the task and I end up with the mumbo-jumbo below.  The variable wood is purposefully random.  When the bench is done I hope to make them all the same.

Just though of something.  The dogs look exactly like my Cub Scout pinewood derby car.

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[rmwarren]

Still working on the dogs and they are "ok"  I'd say a "C" or "C-"
The photos illustrate something that frustrates the (&^#& out of me.  Always has.

That is, I can usually make something once and have it turn out good, but I have to make 15 identical things?  Forget about it.  Even with a jig, I'll mount the piece a little this way or that.  So it comes close but it's not nuts on.  I have one dog/hole combo, out of fifteen, that is nuts on.  Tight fit and flush to the top.

The problem with the dogs is multiplied by the fact that the holes might be routed a tad different too.
Part of it is my impatience during a "production run".  I simply loose sight of the task and I end up with the mumbo-jumbo below.  The variable wood is purposefully random.  When the bench is done I hope to make them all the same.

Just though of something.  The dogs look exactly like my Cub Scout pinewood derby car.

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Wow, "Pinewood Derby", that brings back memories!

My dad was a simple man and a craftsman of much skill. The built at least 2 kitchens of mahogany cabinets using a Skil 77, his daily framing saw.

During my short cub scout career the major event was the Pinewood Derby, & dad was more excited that I was. I (he) built the car from the little kit in the 5' wide by 12'-ish deep shop he had, basically a long built in bench and a hallway tucked into the back of  the house. He shaped that car beautifully to be aerodynamic, hollowed out a cavity and melted lead into it to bring it up to the exact weight limit, and used locksmiths silicon powder on the nail axles to limit friction. It lost in the first race to some lumpy, ugly contraption some kid hacked out by himself.

Thanks for bringing that up, I haven't thought of it in years.

As far as replicating parts with jigs, don't fret, I have the same issue getting them to match. Dad, on the other hand, could have turned them out by the thousand.  [big grin]

RMW

 

[iamnothim]

Wow, "Pinewood Derby", that brings back memories!

My dad was a simple man and a craftsman of much skill. The built at least 2 kitchens of mahogany cabinets using a Skil 77, his daily framing saw.

During my short cub scout career the major event was the Pinewood Derby, & dad was more excited that I was. I (he) built the car from the little kit in the 5' wide by 12'-ish deep shop he had, basically a long built in bench and a hallway tucked into the back of  the house. He shaped that car beautifully to be aerodynamic, hollowed out a cavity and melted lead into it to bring it up to the exact weight limit, and used locksmiths silicon powder on the nail axles to limit friction. It lost in the first race to some lumpy, ugly contraption some kid hacked out by himself.

Thanks for bringing that up, I haven't thought of it in years.

As far as replicating parts with jigs, don't fret, I have the same issue getting them to match. Dad, on the other hand, could have turned them out by the thousand.  [big grin]

RMW

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[iamnothim]

[member=8712]Richard/RMW[/member]
Forgot to say....What a great story.  I'll bet there are a lot of FOG'ers that have built or supervised the building of a Pinewood Derby Car  "PWC".

Wouldn't it be cool if FOG had a PWC build competition?  An "unlimited"  (___)wood class (must use authentic wheels), a nostalgia class (official kit only) and a kid's class (official kit only).  Grand prize..... something cool.

 

[tbellemare]

The biggest thing to keep in mind with pinewood derby cars is what propels them, gravity.

Observing the shape of the track combined with the shape of the car and its trajectory down the track, it seems to me that one wants the weight as high and farthest back as possible. If the weight is in the front of the car, it looses its potential energy much sooner than if it is high in the back of the car.

That theory once made a successful car, or at least something worked...

Tom

 

[Tinker]

I never was in the Cub Scouts, but when my son built a car for the Pine Wood, he wanted to do it all himself.  I let him use any of my tools he wanted to use, but let him go it alone with all of the construction.  all of his friends and cohorts claimed they had done their own as well.  Wow!  some of those 9 to 11 year olds were quite professional. My son's car was the only one that looked like a kid had actually done the whole job.  I was quite proud that he not only asked for no help, but his car came in third.  There were quite a few fathers --- er, ah,--- Cubs who had been left in the dust.
Tinker