Must be Workbench season I had been laminating some pine to make a workbench when I saw episode 77 (?) of the wood whisperer, David Marks' shop tour, and I loved his bench...so I took the 4 legs and made them 2 . I also decided that I wanted it to be a purty bench so I decided to laminate the frame with hardwood. The legs will be laminated with 1/4 ~ 5/16 Jatoba, as will the top and bottom feet of the legs. The stretcher is laminated with red Oak and I'm thinking of attaching it with Wedged or through tenons.
I did start backwards and am not too sure about the top.....the local borgs dont have any SYP, everything is green doug fir/redwood, so thats out. The two options I've been leaning towards are: 1) Prefab butcherblock from lumber liquidators, 12 foot cut in half and laminated to itself for 3 inches of maple goodness, or 2) 2 layers of MDF sandwhiched between plywood (bottom) and 1/2 hardwood strips (top) and completely edged with hardwood. Thoughts, Ideas, Comments
Anyhoo, no more talk, heres the pics so far...first are the legs, one pre-Jatoba Lam, and the other with the Jabota and a Coat of BLO (had to give myself a little tease ) the other is the stretcher in the lam process.