So I haven’t done an update for (checks notes) uh, 16 months. In my defense I’ve had a lot of other projects which unfortunately ranked higher in the Spousal Satisfaction Index, but I have made some minor progress.
One of the distractions I hit, was restoring this bad boy that a relative was throwing out:
It’s an old jarrah workbench complete with...
a 7" Dawn quick-release vise that doesn’t seem to have had a lot of use.
The workbench appears to date back to the mid-60s (based on some writing found underneath) and has been remanufactured at least once already - it looks to originally have had angled legs. This means the angled steel side cabinets look a little odd when mounted vertically, but I 'plumbed them up' with some pegboard. The original colour looks to have been close to the Rust-oleum 'Pastel Peppermint' I resprayed them with.
I replaced the old-school timber bench stop with a flush mount job from Carbatec.
I also replaced all the old brass flathead screws with modern galvanised jobs, which also gave me a bad case of tennis elbow. The bench was missing several of the top pieces and it’s pretty difficult to source 60mm jarrah nowadays. I do have tonnes of 50mm though so managed to lift some up with 10mm floorboard. It’s not super flat but honestly it’s much better than balancing stuff on cheap saw stools.
At any rate, I’m crossing my fingers that the 4" x 4" jarrah frame will be sturdy enough to hold up a guitar
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