Apprentice Workbench (Pic) *LINK*

Pic #2  *LINK*

Kurt Loup

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http://www.loup-garou.net/sitebuilder/images/Paulbench-493x331.jpg

Here's the pic 

Kurt Loup

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Simply amazing ...

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

>.... I did not know that you were so young, Kurt. :)

Really, that is superb work. But I do wonder what you are going to do with the bench when he is a foot taller, like next year! Perhaps you can use it as a bench-bench?

Regards from Perth

Derek

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JL

>Nice bench. Of course when he gets larger (next year) you can put it up on blocks - or get a new set of legs.

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Kurt Loup

>Thanks Derek. The base is assembled with lag screws and no glue so that I can easily add taller legs when the time comes.

Kurt

Very Nice!

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in FL. Exile :~(

>What a great little bench! You done an excellent job in it's construction and I'm sure that your son will enjoy it for the rest of his life. If nothing else when he gets older and bigger he could use it for a coffee table in his own home.

you built the tail vise very similiar to the way I built mine. (only better) I use a bent nail to hold my pipe T to the threaded rod, and I did not attach my cover board to the vise ends. I've to confess that when I built my bench top it was a proto-type and the tail vise was an after-thought, which took me probably a year to get working right. My problem turned out to be that I had the screw too high in the vise, and when I finally moved it to the center in worked as it should. Now that I have the bugs worked out I have yet to make it better, and to be honest probably never will. I would be interested in seeing a pic of the guide that you used for this vise tho.

I also made my shoulder vise using threaded rods and nuts. Works great, tho it sticks out and sometimes is in the way. The upside is that there is no rods in the way so I can stick in a pices all the way to the floor if I need to.

Beneath my bench I have 12 drawers for additional storage and to add more weight to the bench.

My top is glued 2x4's on edge with threaded rods going thru tham at 3 places. It sits on top of the frame by it's own weight and has yet to move. coarse, it is roughly 3 feet wide and 5 feet long, so it is plenty heavy. How'd you made this top and of what?

Well enough about my bench, I simply intended to compliment you on yours. Amazing what can be built from salvaged wood isn't it. I also built my entire bench from salvaged wood as well.

Now than, what about his tool kit?

Todd O.

tail vise *LINK*

Kurt Loup

>Todd,

Thanks for the compliments. Here's a picture of the underside of the tail vise. I added another page to my webpage with more tail vise photos. Below is the link. As far as the tools go, I broke down and purchased some plastic tools from Toys R Us. I'll make him some wooden ones soon.

Kurt




More Tail Vise Pics

Platic tools?!

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in FL. Exile :~(

>I broke down and purchased some plastic tools from Toys R Us. I'll make him some wooden ones soon.

Kurt,

you've got to be kidding me right? Plastic tools, later to replaced with wooden ones. In my mind that will be the most frustrating thing for the lad that you could do. To have a plastic blade that wouldn't cut balsa wood is an exercise in pure futility. Now granted I can see the lad(what's his name anyway) is but wee, but I do believe that that he could handle a small modelers back saw and a small working block plane and not hurt himself. Come now let the lad make some sawdust and shavings. (both of which I'd save in a nice little box and guard better than the Hope Diamond) If nothing else he could practice cutting to a line in some soft pine. You could be raising the next St. Roy, and wouldn't it be grand if he could say "I've been working wood since I was three". (I'm guessing his age)

Thanks for the add'l pics, I'll look at them later.

Todd O.

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Kurt Loup

>Todd,

Paul has a ways to go before he gets any real tools as he just made 13 months one week ago. If the plastic tools weren't enough, his mother made me buy him a plastic tool box at Wal-mart to store the tools.

Kurt

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Clay C in Miami

>I'm amazed to even SEE that blue plastic plane - usually what's made in plastic is only what the little boys want, and what they want is only tools that are 'like daddy's,' so maybe this is another indicator of the revival of hand planes - enough Daddies are using 'em to make the tykes want their own, resulting in new plastic versions!

Clay

Family Heirloom - just wonderful!

Greg Deavers in Stillwater

>Awesome! And a gift that he will NEVER forget!

My Grand daughters are 4 & 5 and like to come out and "help". Problem is my garage is just TOO dangerous (cramped) at the moment.

You have motivated me to get it more "user friendly" and let them HELP me more!

Thanks a ton, and keep us up on the latest as he progresses.

Greg

First plane

Jim Reed @ Tallahassee

>I got a toolkit when I was a preschooler--I guess about five or so. Then I got a bandsaw when I was about nine or ten. Still have a screwdriver and a plane (tiny Stanley) from the kit as well as the bandsaw. I call it Granddad's saw, but he only had it for ten or fifteen years--I have had it for almost fifty! Never too early to start with the tools and a good bench is a great start. Good Dad--keep it up.

Here's a go-with! *LINK*

Clay C in Miami

>These are probably too 'nice' just yet for such a wee lad, but I cetainly thought of your apprentice when I saw them!

Clay


Wooden tool kit

Thanks Clay

Kurt Loup, Baton Rouge

>That's what I have in mind for him. I'll have to make him some tools just like that. I saved the pictures.

Kurt

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Ernie Miller

>Nice bench! is that a csraper plane? and you get time in the penilty box for them power tools in the picture. That just ain't right teaching a wee lad bad habbits allready.

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Kurt Loup, Baton Rouge

>Thanks Ernie. I guess you could call it whatever kind of plane you want. It has a wheel on the bottom that makes a clicking noise as you "plane". Real authentic.

Kurt

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Mike L in Trabuco Canyon, CA

>That's a smart kid Kurt. With all that bright colored plastic to distract him, he's clearly quite focused on two hunks of authentic wood.

Regards,

Mike

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William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Clicking sound? The sound of major tearout from an untuned handyman plane, IMHO. Some of them powah tool manufacturers must have paid off the toy company to start him off with a bad experience with hand tools. It could have been worse. They could have put in a "real" Kunz plane or spokeshave, instead. I'm sure you'll keep him on the right track. The bench is a great start.