Comments on: Tooth Your Benchtop in Four Songs

By: stevo_wis

stevo_wis — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 04:29:19 +0000

Chris, I have a Roubo question. If the legs are mortised into the bottom of the bench top, isn’t wood movement in the top going to play havoc on the mortise and tenon joins and rack the short stretcher assemblies? I want to do a six foot bench to mount my recently acquired Emmert on and I am torn whether I want to do the beautiful through mortises or just to make the stretchers quickly and lag them to the bottom of the bench. By slotting the top could move and it would be much faster. Any thoughts?
Stevo

By: Nikk

Nikk — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:17:20 +0000

I just did it! And its cool! Works really well just doesnt look showy like before.
Regards from Germany!
Nikolaus

By: jossimbyr

jossimbyr — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:23:45 +0000

At the end of the video, is that the Schwarz version of ‘dropping the mic’? From here on out, that’s how I will show that I’m finished planing.

*shiiick* *shiiick* *shiiiick* *thud*

By: David Randall

David Randall — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:07:31 +0000

The advantages of fingerprints providing useful friction with three bark have just come into the news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21480654

Reading this, it could also have a bearing on why toothing the workbench surface works. The scientist involved is a Dr. Nathaniel Dominy. I don’t know if he is related to the the Dominy of the workshop and workbench fame at the Winterthur Museum, but it’s certainly a coincidence.

By: Christopher Schwarz

Christopher Schwarz — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:39:12 +0000

The toothing plane is sharpened straight across. I think what you are seeing is the fact that the iron isn’t projecting precisely the same amount from the mouth. One corner is cutting more than the other. And this fact is highlighted by the video.

By: Christopher Schwarz

Christopher Schwarz — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:37:11 +0000

Toothing it doesn’t make it less flat or less useful as a reference surface. The toothing is quite shallow.

By: Niels

Niels — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:49:11 +0000

This post is perfectly timed- this week I am building a small bench and I was planning on flattening the top with a no.7 with a toothed blade. I might just leave the surface as is. I can always smooth it if it’s not working for me!

By: Mark W

Mark W — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:42:19 +0000

How do get on testing things for flat ie a board or some other component, I use my bench top as a reference, if something is rocking on my bench I will then test it on my planer bed, the toothed top with its dished look does not look seem very flat.

By: tommy

tommy — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:54:15 +0000

i thought you weren’t a fan of metal bench dogs…

By: SLPoetzl

SLPoetzl — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:45:14 +0000

Question: The scallops that I can see in the video – are they from the toothing plane or from a previous passes with a well-raidiused iron in a Jack or other plane that was used earlier? Or does your toothed iron have that big of a radius?