This week's blunder!!

Birch

Okay boys, you're gonna love this one. I am constructing a workbench; going to be the workbench of the ages, the wooden equivalent to Mt Rushmore, sorta like the Rock of Gibralter. You get the idea.
I meticulously constructed a 2"X6" frame, all bolted and lag screwed. I carefully crafted a three-layer 2" thick top. I was careful to measure the top to be exactly 60-inches long. And when I built the frame I carefully made sure to measure and make it.........60-inches long. Hold it....that AIN'T gonna work! Where's the overhang? Where's room for the vice? How you gonna clamp anything to a bench with a top flush to the frame?
Tomorrow, at the crack of dawn, before anybody can see, I gotta go take it apart and cut 10" off the aprons.
But thats okay. I just noticed that on one leg set I have the nuts on the inside and on the other they are on the outside.
See......and you thought I already knew how to do everything.

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vikingcraftsman

Hay don't embarras us Vikings. If we build our long ships that way they would have sunk. LOL

kolias

It's ok Fatz, it happens to all of us

Just keep smiling and eventually all will come to place. Your bench sounds good and when it's done give us some pics

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Nicolas

xplorx4

You don't hold any corner on the blunders market, we have all made them, the key to any good craftsman is not in not making blunders, but in how you fix them.

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Lamentations 3:22-23

"How often we sacrifice the permanent plans of God on the altar of immediate solutions"

I have a very good memory, just short is all.

CanuckGal

You must have been following my plans...LOL

drasbell

hmm sounds like me,,, you sure your not a long lost cousin?

harrysin

Fatz, it sounds rather like me, a rough drawing with basic measurements and make it up as you go along. The great thing about this technique is that over time you become expert at turning mistakes into features!

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Harry

The best advice that I can give a newcomer to routing is, learn to use the router mounted, this can be as simple as a board held in a vice, with the router firmly attached and a simple fence held with clamps, and when he/she feels competant and confident in it's use and is familiar with all aspects of safety, THEN, and only then proceed to learn how to use the router hand held. This is MY opinion, and may or may not coincide with that of the forum management, but is based on a lifetime of woodworking.


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3efingers

Yep, I've found my long last brother!!

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