Kitchen Bench Build

ltp · 23 January 2019 10:50

I am working on a Custom Kitchen bench for my place.
Pretty basic plans, the top will be about 1200 mm long and 800 mm wide and around 50 mm thick butchers block top (all endgrain).
One side will have an overhand for a breakfast bar and one end will have rounded corners.
Under this are two shelves (stainless steel)
I also have plans to integrate a bowl system to easily pickup food after cutting it up.
And a knife block for easy access.

Started by cleaning up and cutting some recycled timber I had (all from 1 piece of timber)

Four legs, six short and six long cross beams.

To join the legs and cross beams I am using a mitred cross joint (I think that is what it is called)

I cut the joints on the table saw using the crosscut sled and cleaned them up with a chisel

Base goes together like this

The aim is to pin these also with through dowels
so I main a dowel maker and then a bunch of dowels

I made a jig to drill all of the dowel holes

(still need to do the cross beams)

onto the Top
its going to be made out of a random assortment of scrap or recycled hardwood

which basically involved me cutting up lots of timber and gluing them all up.

then cutting them up more, then gluing them back together
(with a bunch of repair when a bunch of them didnt glue up as well0

current pile looks like this

I have more I am fixing and more to cut up still

ltp · 26 January 2019 00:28

Here is some more scrap I have glues up

I ran them over the planner and through the thicknesser to square them all up and clean off all the glue
Then I cut them into 55 mm lengths

Glue ups were better this time… but still come need to be fixed

Here is a rough idea off how it will look when it is all randomised.

I still only have about half of what i need (it is a big bench top)
so more timber to cut up and glue

ltp · 28 January 2019 12:06

Making more pieces for the bench top

Using the new joinery blade I cut slots in the cross beams

base goes together like this

ltp · 26 March 2019 09:16

So had some delays and issues with some of my top glue ups…

so up to this point I made this much of the top… Is only about 2/3 of what i need

so Glued up some more timber

using the new pipe clamps

So i think I have enough now

So i started gluing up some of the blocks a while ago
here I did some more

ltp · 6 April 2019 12:54

So making progress on the top.

I glued together most of the pieces into blocks then laid out the blocks in a rough plan.
Needed to add some more bits to some and make an extra block.

From there I used the planner to flatten one side and squared off all the sides on the table saw

then to get the other side flat, I trimmed one edge on the table saw before putting them through the thicknesser. This was to stop tear-out on the trailing edge. This worked pretty well as long as i didnt take it down all the way.
making progress