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Bob Smalser
08-19-2010, 12:03 PM
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Casey Gooding
08-19-2010, 12:28 PM
Very nice. I particularly like the mounds of shavings on the floor.
Joe McMahon
08-19-2010, 1:26 PM
Bob, thanks for the great picture. Lots & lots of bow saws.

Joe
Will Boulware
08-19-2010, 2:08 PM
Very interesting. I also noticed the plethora of bow saws.
Brian Ward
08-19-2010, 2:10 PM
Hmm. How you reach that saw all the way at the top?
Bruce Page
08-19-2010, 2:20 PM
Only the tall guys can use the top bow saw! :D
Tim Put
08-19-2010, 3:11 PM
I think you give it a poke with one of the big bowsaws and then catch it while avoiding the teeth. ;)
Bob Smalser
08-19-2010, 8:02 PM
I scanned it from an old bible because the tools haven't changed much from Roman times. Neither has their paucity.

In addition to the saws, if you blow up the photo you'll see fewer than six chisels...at least one appears to be a mortise chisel....two bow drills.....one extended-reach bar clamp....one large panel gage...a large mallet....a jointer and five smaller planes.....a rack of try squares in graduated sizes...a few compass/dividers...a couple marking/utility knives....and a mortise gage.

Although he's preparing rough-sawn stock in the photo....and I can't see inside the rack of shelves on the right....I don't see much evidence he used glue.
Harlan Barnhart
08-19-2010, 10:49 PM
Nice architecture. I would feel inspired to build something nice with a high, well lit workspace like that.
Jim Koepke
08-19-2010, 11:36 PM
I scanned it from an old bible because the tools haven't changed much from Roman times. Neither has their paucity.

Neither has that bench, it looks like it may have been used to repair a few chariot wheels.

Thanks for sharing,

jim
Harlan Barnhart
08-20-2010, 3:56 PM
Mr. Smalser, how are the stretchers fastened to the legs? The scan is fuzzy enough that I can't see too many details. Are those bolt heads or through tenons?
Bob Smalser
08-21-2010, 7:37 PM
Mr. Smalser, how are the stretchers fastened to the legs? The scan is fuzzy enough that I can't see too many details. Are those bolt heads or through tenons?

Bolts. Just like my father's old bench.