workbench in your living room

[rick fulton]

Maybe you built a new workbench and don't know what to do with the old one.
Maybe you just don't seem to have time to get into the shop any more.
Maybe you just want to prove to your sweetheart that you can make furniture.
Bring the workbench into the living room and relabel it as a bar cart.
NY Times article shows a fine example;

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/12/31/garden/31bar-2/popup.jpg

From the article; Drinks? Shake, Stir, and Roll
at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/garden/31barcarts.html?ref=garden

[Take Alberts]

Yeah, see how your sweetheart feels about your furnituremaking after she walks into those vises a few times.

Take

[Doug Shepard]

Yeah, see how your sweetheart feels about your furnituremaking after she walks into those vises a few times.

Take

Vises? What vises. Those are built-in nutcrackers:D

[Paul Saffold]

Or towel holders, essential for every bar.:D

[Frank Drew]

That's interesting; a friend has just built a new winery and wants to use my workbench -- currently stored in his barn -- in the tasting room.

[Kent A Bathurst]

Vises? What vises. Those are built-in nutcrackers:D

Howl!!!!! I couldn't figure out a relatively "clean" way to say that - well done, Doug.

BTW - an easier alternative could be to leave the bench in the shop and move the bar there.

[Frank Townend]

And that is why finding old workbenches is so difficult and when you find them they are so expensive.

[dennis thompson]

I saw that picture in the paper & immediately thought....what a waste of a good workbench
Dennis

[Matt Evans]

I saw that picture in the paper & immediately thought....what a waste of a good workbench
Dennis

The thought I had was similar, but was also one of those "Well, if I put a bench in the living room, I could start working in the evenings while still spending time with my wife. . ." Not that that would work. Even hand tool work gets pretty loud at times, and the shavings would be over the top for my wife.

[Caspar Hauser]

I've seen this quite a few times in various houses that have been 'decorated'. I can't afford to window shop in the shops they were bought from.

[Mark Engel]

Yeah, see how your sweetheart feels about your furnituremaking after she walks into those vises a few times.

Take



Vises? What vises. Those are built-in nutcrackers:D

They are only nutcrackers when YOU walk into them, not when SHE does.

[Chris S Anderson]

I'm going to start using my LN #7 to make very fine lemon shavings for my wife's lemon drop martinis. What would a good angle for my irons be? This is actaully a great idea - there are so many tools I can use to take the cork out of my scotch and getting rid of those pesky dirty glasses will be a cinch with my hammers.

[Jeff Wittrock]

This almost falls into the same category as painting a wildlife scene on a saw. Not quite heresy, but its dangerously, close.

[Zach England]

block plane with toothed blade=citrus zester.

[Tom Vanzant]

Chris/Zach,
A coarse-cut flat microplane is hard to beat for zesting lemons.
Tom

[Zach England]

Chris/Zach,
A coarse-cut flat microplane is hard to beat for zesting lemons.
Tom
I actually have one of those in my kitchen for said purpose.

Are the microplanes sold at kitchen stores the same as the ones in WW catalogs? They have the same branding, but I have never owned one purchased for WW.

[Tom Vanzant]

They're the same. Pick the store with the best price.
Tom

[Doug Shepard]

Ya know this whole workench in the living room thing is something that's been done before.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=87567&d=1209727258