{"id":437,"date":"2010-01-15T21:28:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T04:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new-gro.dyn.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2014-07-22T16:45:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T23:45:58","slug":"improving-a-cheap-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"Adding a plane stop to a cheap Grizzly workbench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grizzly sells a really nice bench with lots of drawer space. I already had two of these benches in the garage \u2013 and rather than buy or build a cabinetmakers workbench I decided to improve the bench I had and use it until my woodworking projects outgrew it.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing I wanted was a plane stop. The stop is basically a board that sticks up proud of the table surface by an adjustable amount. Here you can see a profile  of the stop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/plane_stop_side.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-439\" title=\"plane_stop_side\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/plane_stop_side.jpg\" alt=\"plane_stop_side\" width=\"504\" height=\"672\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The stop attaches to the end of the bench by two bolts. I milled slots in the stop board to allow it to slide up and down. The board is held in place by friction and adjusted by a quick light taps with a hammer. I have some ideas for a screw lock for the stop \u2013 but so figured I would use the friction adjustment first and it seems to work great.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/plane_stop_bolts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-440\" title=\"plane_stop_bolts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/plane_stop_bolts.jpg\" alt=\"plane_stop_bolts\" width=\"504\" height=\"672\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below you can see the stop in use. A board rest against the stop so the length of the board can be planed right out over the edge of the board. This is useful for thicknessing stock by hand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/planing_a_board.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-441\" title=\"planing_a_board\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/planing_a_board.jpg\" alt=\"planing_a_board\" width=\"504\" height=\"672\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grizzly sells a really nice bench with lots of drawer space. I already had two of these benches in the garage \u2013 and rather than buy or build a cabinetmakers workbench I decided to improve the bench I had and use it until my woodworking projects outgrew it. The first thing I wanted was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}