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we finaly got these finished up in december of last year, i never really post pictures of our jobs (no time) but i thougt i would show these off a little, most of the wood was stuff that people gave to us over the years, the legs are some old stair treads, the oak panels were base boards that we got somwhere, the light panels are sycamore,one of the tops is ash and the other is oak, and all the drawer boxes are some old crappy cherry that we couldent use for customers. all the frames are full mortise and tennon, most of the parts were macined on my thermwood. we even did the tops on the thermwood down to the dog holes and the cutouts for the vises. you can bet that the top is really flat and square because i even machined that on the thermwood.i dident even bother running them thru the wide belt sander. they are both about nine feet long and forty inches wide and weigh in at around 600 pounds. i am calling the design a \"shaker hibred\". needless to say they are a pleasure to work on and should be the only benches i will ever build.
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Wow! Nice workbenches!
I end up with a ton of cutoffs from trim jobs and am slowly stockpiling enough of the right profiles to retrim my house. And make my daughter a jewelry box. And my wife one too. And some camping cabinets. And my home workshop cabinets. Plus an entertainment center.........
It never ends, but I wouldn't know what to do if it ever did.
Mike
I end up with a ton of cutoffs from trim jobs and am slowly stockpiling enough of the right profiles to retrim my house. And make my daughter a jewelry box. And my wife one too. And some camping cabinets. And my home workshop cabinets. Plus an entertainment center.........
It never ends, but I wouldn't know what to do if it ever did.
Mike
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Wow absolutely beautiful. Reminds me of the benches I apprenticed on. Go ahead tell me you did the square corner mortise on a Thermwood.
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no we rounded the tennons, we also cut the tennons on the thermwood. i had to flip them to get both sides. i have done my share of this kind of work by hand, but you cant beat sitting there and watching the thermwood do it for you. we are in the process of purchasing the thermwood mortise and tennon machine so we can automate this process for our face frames and other projects.
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Jeff I would appreciate it if you would update on the M&T machine. Everything here is M&T which is one of the things that sets me apart (if Dan's listening it's not just the lacquer) and that helps in the bottom line.
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it was hard to throw away my old one even though it was in sad shape, i had turned alot of product on it. here is a picture from 7 years ago, i made it in about fifteen minutes from a door i took off somones house and it lasted ten years, you can imagine what kind of shape it was in when i thru it out last year.
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Jeff, do you currently do M&T for your all face frames. I use either a square chisel mortiser or the Maka and a SET for the tenons. Was just curious what the transition would be like going to Thermwoods M&T.
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