in january of 2015, after years of jury-rigging clamping solutions for work holding, i embarked on my workbench project. worked on my workbench project ended upchoosing a split up with hardware inventions designed by a smallfamily-owned company and iowa called bench crafted top slabs for it has takenover seven feet long and it's made of laminated pieces of soft maple individual emailed each of the piecesusing power tools and then did some find between to play then laminated the pieces into slabsweighing around a hundred pounds each kevin wrestled to the planar to flattenthem out
nearly a year later after building thecase and adding intel-based hardware have the beginnings of a work surface aperfect world the bench top would be flattened true but in reality toaccumulate adaran individual laminates along with imperfections in the base youare inevitably end up with a topic is a flat my case i had a pretty significanttwist the three sixteenths inch difference between the corners of twomain choices hand tools and power tools and i chose the latter for this turn to the build videos fromare expected although it would whisper killed so here's an excerpt availableand it's free site which details to
process using around his life around histhird technique for flattening white surface is not a new idea notably thebest known for playing around swanson swanson recreation is also anaccomplished woodworker and has been featured a number of times and finallywoodworking magazine who runs a shop in los angeles where he specializes inbuilding furniture with large slabs which flattens using about us laterdecide began the process by defacing my entirebench top if you have small children now might be a good time to get them in theshop you need a large crowd of it to do thecutting edge of one and a half inch
straight fit me my droid another optionwould be infinity tools which makes a bit specialized for the purpose of herslit is fairly simple made a standard three quarter inch plywood with doublelimits for the router trying to prevent say and it a one and a half and drank liveon either side of the guys to allow for offenses that are made out of scrap yardwith a team and start-ups to secure the place these fences limit your choicesthe sled rides the rails and other changes made to mark's methodwas adding an interrail set slightly below the level of the benchtop thisallows the router bit to travel all the
way across the bench top and scallopededges to make the rails and kneel standard ifit leads to lie along with the best i could in turn planar to get the topedges of the two rails to match as closely as possible took a trip from that quota ganged upthe two pieces and ran them through the plane on the edge of the intervale withscrews up to the size of the bench and did a test run this technique to work the rails have tobe coplanar initial use marks techniques with coated wire which worked wellhowever when i had to make adjustments
and try and remove the wires by lazinesskicked in another way i realized i could do the same thing with a little on theslow i happen to have a digital level which has zeroed on one edge of thebench then adjusted their meals until it stayed on season cross the home run though it just doesnot ensure the top of level or even left to right relative to its so before i got started with the real worki decided to supply route of a bit below is found on the bench and startedmaking passes left to right as i
mentioned on the corners i was takingnearly three sixteenth of an inch off with the japan eclipse the stops oneither side of this list so that i didn't run into the outer rail with abit using god parks that have made on the rail and move forward and then shecan allowing presidential over passes with one bit hearts been erased place for this process and predictableand cuts this was easily corrected with some standing afterwards after 87 passesi ended up with a pretty substantial piled which is which
nothing else maybe some pretty picturesbench was now flat with obvious track marks from the router fences had keptthese marks evil inconsistent so you can theoretically leave them for a grippingsurface but i chose a random orbit sander and 80 grit paper i didn't sendfighters from becoming too slippery time to check the results traded passed easily after a lot more work on the finishingtouches to the workbench that will likely to me