Building the ultimate HYBRID WORKBENCH
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- Опубліковано 18 кві 2023
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I was tired of my workbench not having any work holding options. For years I’ve been using clamps on the side which work, but are very limiting. This week I upgraded my workbench by adding two quick release vices, t-track around the sides, and dog holes. Plans for this build are on my website www.almfab.com/plans
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just wanted to mention, i love that you’re always iterating and making use of what you already have instead of making new stuff from scratch, it’s much more realistic and sustainable :)
I was thinking the exact same same thing. Taking apart what we've already got to get what we want is better in so many ways.
Two things
1. I’m totally going to use that circle trick to find the center. Thank you.
2. Please put the shield on your band saw. I promised my dad I’d mention it to you when I showed him some of your videos. He used to teach this stuff and had two band saws break on him. It’s rare but the damage to people and equipment can be huge if you don’t have a shield.
(Now back to the video!)
Thanks Tricia!
Tricia, see my comment for a second method on the circle trick.
Tip for the vise jaw; taper it so it touches at the top first. You will notice when you clamp down on work, the bottom of the jaw moves in, there's a certain "flex" in most vises....... If your jaw is plumb without a taper then your jaw is wider in the top and work isn't gripped as tightly. When you add a small taper as it's cranked down the bottom will still pull in, but the taper means the jaw isn't opened up more in the top...... This grips the work much stronger. Its more evident when a board is clamped upright, like when cuttin a dovetail or the likes....... Its held tightly at the bottom, but the jaw is opened more up top an it can make the work vibrate when sawing, it's vexing. With a tapered jaw it touches in the top first, an as it's cranked down it brings more of the jaw against the work 😁
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Michael - I've been learning woodworking for the past few years, mostly via youtube. Early in my journey, I skipped your channel in favor of more beginner-friendly "how to" type-stuff. Nowadays, I find that you're one of my favorites. Your demeanor and variety of things you work on makes you stand out. I love all the 'shop upgrade' videos, and this one comes at the exact time in my life that I've been daydreaming about building a more functional work bench like yours 👍
Came for the woodworking, stayed for the jumping spider (5:44).
The attention to detail is what I appreciate when you share your builds. How to solve for it and not dwelling over it.
The dog hole chamfer is 👌
Having a father who grew up in the Great Depression, I learned a lot of things from him, Yes, he had power tools in the shop, but until we were around 11 or 12 years old we weren't able to use them unless he was there to supervise. If we wanted to try and build things on our own we were limited to his hand tools. I believe that working with hand tools before using power tools on a regular basis makes you appreciate the power even more. Having a small set of hand tools including an eggbeater style drill helps you continue, albeit at a slower pace, with your projects. When I got into high school shop classes, even though I had much experience with power tools, our first introduction to wood working in shop class was all hand tools, except for using the grinder to help sharpen the chisels and plane irons. I'm a firm believer in learning the absolute basics from the beginning. I still have the small book shelf that we made in Grade 9 using hand cut dados and coping saws to create the profile for the backrest. There is a great sense of satisfaction in making things with your own hands, that last the test of time. I do enjoy your videos and the fact that you upcycle the projects you already have in your shop. Definite time and money savers.
I have the all metal work fron my maternal grandfathers vice, looking forward to giving it a new life many decades later when I begin to build my THoW
Such a great video. Lots of little tips I wish I’d known when I installed my vice.
The t-track is such a great idea. One suggestion for that stop would be to elongate the holes downwards so that instead of having to pull it out and flip it all you’d have to do is loosen the knobs and lift up slightly.
I was coming to the comments to share the same input! I was thinking L shaped holes that way you wouldn’t have hold it up and tighten at the same time.
It might be worth cutting small slots instead of holes for the knobs in the piece you are using as a planing stop. Then instead of having to loosen it, slide it out, flip it over, and slide it back in, all you would have to do is loosen the knobs, raise it up, and tighten them back down. As long as the "low" setting is flush (or below) the top, then resetting it is as simple as loosening the knobs and letting it drop, and raising it, while still simple, will be quicker than what you have now and potentially more adjustable since you could raise it to less that "topped out" if you wanted/needed to.
The luxury tours at the end of your videos are the freaking best.
Hahaha! Thanks! They’re really fun to make
Glad to see use wood push sticks at the table saw instead the plastic ones that come with saws,
vises are essential on a work bench
If all you do is power tool woodworking you can get by without a vise.
Since we live in the PNW, and camping is a must, hand plane shavings are great fire starters too! I keep a paper bag in the shop to collect them, and throw them in with the wood when I head out to the mountains. Also, use the Plate and the Origin to cut the dogholes. Works a treat!
The eye shape is the way you split a segment in half with a divider.
It all begins at the bench.
Awesome Michael. Class as always
I love finding and/or using driftwood to create a shade/shelter for my beach hangout time
Michael, the vise jaw could have also been sent through the planer on a sled with shims on one end to approximate the gap. Love that you re-imagined the old bench to suit your current needs. This is what non content creators would be doing- waste not, want not!
Nice workbench upgrade! I like the personalization.
When you were cutting the recess for your first vise w/ the multitool, I could 100% smell that video.
Very nice project. I’m going copy your design. Thanks for sharing!
Right on! My pleasure 🙌
More great work Michael!
Love this (re-)build, and the shaper logos add that very cool extra level of professional customization. You could fill the cutting path with epoxy or just wax and plane them flat for a nice pop of color!
Right on point Michael, was just thinking about a functional table recently and your approach has given me a great deal of ideas and inspiration. Keep on keepin' on!
love this project !! thanks for the tips, tricks, and practicality of using what you have on hand to make something awesome
I've never seen anyone drill dog holes into the vice jaws and and that's an absolutely brilliant way to make an adjustable workpiece holding thingamajig!
So good Michael. I love the T track plane stop. I have T track around my bench and will definitely be making a few of those
Can’t wait to see what you build with these new workbench features. Beautiful video, as always Michael. I love how you film the final product in your videos. The dramatic lighting is very cool.
Lovely upgrade! Also love to see that the allure of some hand tool work is starting to affect you. Can’t wait to see what you do when your start adding that to your skill set.
It's great to follow your shop evolution as you challenge yourself with skill building. I purchased my vice from Rockler, but I've been a little intimidated to install it. I'm happy you succeeded and shared it with all of us. Thank you so much!
I’m more than 1/2 way through designing an assembly table/track saw cutting station. I hadn’t planned on adding a vice but yours looks so useful!
Very cool. I’ve been wanting to upgrade my workbench and this is just what I’ve been looking for !
been playing with building a vise from scratch for my bench, you gave me a few new ideas to think about!
I wish the AlmFab logo on the plane stop was in a bearing and weighted at the bottom so it was always upright. Do you have a link to the black melamine topping?
excellent workbench upgrade!
Great information in this video and a great resource. Well done
I really appreciate the adaptation of the fine existing bench, showing imperfections & all. So many UA-camrs would have started from scratch but that's totally unecessary.
The result is very impressive. The tried & tested with a huge increase in functionality. I'm currently in a similar predicament, wanting better features from my workbench & planning how to upgrade or whether to start over. This video is a real inspiration!
Great upgrades👌
The final reveal shots and music is perfection🤩 Love it
hybrid woodworker gang. power tools are great but there is some serious satisfaction when using a jack plane or block plane.
It's very rare to get a workbench "correct" the first time around. Unless you know exactly the kind of work you are going to be doing, and know that you'll be sticking with the same type of tools throughout your woodworking life, it's pretty near impossible. You are doing great if you only have to build two benches (or rebuild/modify once). It took me three times over 19 years to dial it in. If your shop can handle space for two types of benches, that's the way to go.
I frickin love your channel.
I started out as a graphic designer and only later got into woodworking, weaving, sewing and other more industrial crafts. Your one of the only youtubers I've seen who has that slightly more artistic approach to woodworking and I feel such a kinship with that.
Watching you router out your logo with the shaper made me think about how you could use it to router out an inlay of your logo in a contrasting species of wood. I could see your logo inlayed with walnut looking REALLY good.
The perpendicular bisector of every chord of a circle goes through the center of the circle. They do not have to touch as you stated.
This is evidenced by the fact that a diameter is a chord, albeit a special instance of one. No diameters share any common points except the center itself.
@23:18 No need for a straight edge. The sole of the plane is one!
A better way to get the high spots with a plane is to set it for a fairly shallow cut and push the plane down the length of the vice jaw with the plane body skewed about 45°, so the back rides on the reference surface (the bench top) and the iron passes over what you want to bring down. Keep pressure on the heel so it stays firmly on the reference surface and the front doesn't get pulled down by the cutting action.
I never use glue to put things together, not because I think it's inferior, but because I have commitment issues.
Fun video. Enjoyed seeing how you built the tables. 6x3 is the Goldilocks size for my shop. 8x4 is too big. 4x2 is too small. Traditional hand tool bench is 52 x22 but that isn’t necessarily for keeping projects/assembly.
I love a chamfer of any size on the top outermost edge of the moving vise jaw. Helps when going up and down at angles with tools and stops me from hitting it. I run my hands across that edge so many times for guiding strokes.
Excellent work as always. Loved the montage.
I do like that you built a work bench from regular dimensional lumber and plywood. I have a friend who built a huge workbench out of purple heart, maple, ash and various other exotic hardwoods. His work bench is amazing but it looks like a piece of heirloom furniture and he doesn't use it to make anything on, he just looks at it and shows it off.
Not that I have not done some odd things myself, but.........
If you measure the diameter of the circle, half it, start anywhere on the circle, make an arc, put the compass where it intersects and repeat, you will end up with a center point of the circle.
Thank You Michael!
This is awesome. I've been thinking about doing the same thing for my workbench. Just wish I had the same hookup with rockler as you do haha. Love the vids man. Keep up the good work.
Nice job. As you kit out your bench look at the stuff Lee valley has, lots of great accessories
Great job as always Michael! Glad to see that you are starting to use (and love!) some hand tools too! You could have stick some boards or angled aluminum (I use 1" X 1" X 1/8" stock) at the right angle to the side of your jaw with 2-sided tape and use your router with a large flat bit to plane it but I'm pretty sure it would have been longer to set it up and make it right than with the hand plane. Nothing beats a properly set hand plane to make that perfect and highly satisfying finish!
An idea for your side t-track stops, another channel made a similar wooden plank stop like yours (the one you can flip), but he added channels for the screws so he can set it to any height he wants.
Nice work!!
Is this the theme of 2023: tear it apart rebuild it? First the house. Then the miter saw. Now the work bench. Is nothing safe?😂. Work bench looks great.❤
Great upgrades
I like the tone, the narration, the editing and the content of the videos I've watched on your channel, your upgraded workshop is just so cool and functional, all this got you a new subscriber.
Thank you very much!
Just watch the workbench upgrade and notice the back drop showing the over head storage behind you. I am interested in what you have done and wonder if you have information on the build and how the overhead storage works. Thanks
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Suggestion for t-track: use shorter pieces with gaps in the middle of runs so you can insert/remove t-bolts in the middle as well as at the ends.
I like the step down style casters so that your bench isn't rattle around on casters most of the time.
Hello from Whidbey Island!!! I really enjoy your channel.
I haven’t ever used one of those Rockler or similar drill press jigs. On my bench I used my Festool lr 32 system for the dog holes. Only limitation is you kinda have to stay within a spacing divisible by 32 mm. I have also seen people cut the dog holes out with a cnc.
Fantastic work, Michael! 😃
I need to do the same here!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Very nice upgrade. On the reveal I wanted to shout “Adrian”.
smashin job bro
I would probably have not used the Rockler drill guide, I would have used the Shaper!! The Shaper could have given you the precision of an MFT. MFT precision could help in assembly.
Also, if you slot the bolt holes in the planing stop board, you'll be able to lift it in and out of position by just loosening the knobs, instead of having to pull it out of the T-track and flip it over.
I was inspired by your video to move one of my vices. I have just put a new surface on my largest workbench with some surplus click together 'formica type surface'. That was easy and probably a very good decision. Moving the vice was a very different story; it took me two days. You should know that I am slightly cripple (27 year old artificial hip) and I have an immune disease (ME/CFS). I should have paid better attention to your precise hole drilling.
On finding the center of a circle, you're halfway to an easier way. Just draw a triangle where all 3 corners are on the edge, doesn't matter what shape of triangle, this works almost no matter what, as long as all 3 are less than 90°. Then from midpoint of each edge to the opposite corner of the triangle, all three lines meet in the middle. (Learned that one on junkyard wars when they built a hovercraft)
If I've understood your description correctly, that involves measuring the midpoint of a line though which is prone to error and I personally find fiddly. I can see it being useful in lower accuracy situations - for finer accuracy I'd prefer the no measurement method.
On the small vise, you might want to consider putting a 45 or so degree chamfer, at least half of the thickness of the board. You'll see that you're going to need it once you start hitting it.
You'll probably want to add a 45 degree bevel to the handle-side of the vise jaws. This will give you clearance for hand saw blades as you're cutting stock held vertically in the vise (like for half-blind dovetails). Without the bevel, you'll have to have the stock sticking up several inches above the vise jaws, and this either may not be possible for shorter length pieces, or for longer pieces it leaves enough unsecured that the stock flexes as the teeth bite, leading to ragged cuts and way too much noise!
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Cherry looks so nice with just about any finish on it but as Peter Brown says, "You can tell it's Cherry because it burns when you look at it."
Keep an eye out for a Emmert patternmakers vise. If you ever find one you’ll love all the abilities and positions it allows for.
A buddy just got one!! I’m super jealous
@@MichaelAlm Why have an Emmert, when you can have a HNT GORDON?!?!?!
Those vises are prone to racking as any center screw vise is so make yourself a set of rack keys. Also FYI hardwood IS the best choice for vise jaws. You will discover that its best only one jaw should have cork, usually the travel jaw.
Bench envy!! :)
Hey Michael,
ein sehr schönes Update an deiner Werkbank und ein cooles Video, wie immer!👍✌
Those are some fine upgrades which will make woodworking even more fun.
Just wondering: you mentioned you based the location of the dog holes with your vises as starting point, but didn't you plane the smaller vice more on one side than the other?
I really like the personal touch of your logo with the Shaper. Nice 🙂
Very nice. The only thing you didn't do that I've seen others do, is add a large chamfer to the back-top of the vice. I think the idea is that if you're cutting with a saw, you can angle the saw down without hitting the back of the vice. Not sure if it's relevant in your application. Really good additions. Cheers!
Good to know! Thanks
woahhhhh check out that hole finding pencil tracing trick!
Grave rubbing?
that's a schweet upgrade! Having thoughts about putting a second vice on my bench now
Thanks Scotty! The more vices the better Hahaha!
Hi 👋, Great job , I am hoping to build a work bench sometime this year, as one that I purchased secondhand last year and it is too low. I’ve even put a 4 inch block under the legs to lift it up., but the problem is it’s not very wide. If I lift it up any farther it will become unstable., it is a European voice, and I don’t seem to be very tall, great territorial, stay safe. Keep up the great work. Look forward to your next project.
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Michel Alm’s ruller trick :)
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Amazing Job! So inspiring. Thank you very much for the this video. Question: The filming and edition is done by yourself or you hire someone for it? It's fantastic. 😎👍
this is probably one of those projects where you ask yourself after completing it: "Why haven't I've done this a couple of years earlier?" Great Job!
Totally! Thanks!
Could you have used the shaper origin to mark out the dog hole locations?
27:13 wait i thought you picked out the cherry wood for the jaws specifically because of its density and how it would interact with whatever you're working on? doesn't the cork kind of nullify that decision?
Yeah you can make vise chops out of plywood. It doesn't look as nice as solid wood does but it works just fine. Plywood will be more dimensionally stable too.
For the dog holes, could you have used the Shaper Origin?
The Origin is great at making dogholes, especially with Plate!!
Why do you have a drawer labeled "taxidermy eyes"? You definitely need to do a taxidermy video :)
Michael have you ever tried a micro jig bench, they work great 😊
where do you find 1/4" MDF core black melamine?
How do I find that attachment for the router online?
Couldn’t you mitre the corners of T track?
I’m genuinely just curious, why do wood workers seem to use Forstner bits for everything? I have them and use them when needed but certainly not all the time. Love your videos Michael!
I use them because they cut really cleanly. Other bits pull material up as the cut. Also when I go above 1/2” forstner bits are the only option in my collection other than hole saws. Thanks 🙌
Does anyone know what hand plane he's using?
Oh man I’m always looking for an excuse for a cloud lift so that’s what I would have done around the vise screw holes.
I’ve never heard that term! It sent me on a really nice google search! Thanks 🙌
Drink every time he says "rockler"