Jared McMahon
02-20-2012, 6:14 PM
Tripped over this while searching for workbench images to get some ideas:
224500
Found it on some auction aggregator site. Dimensions are listed as 30" H, 15" W, 31" L, wood is listed as walnut, age is given as ~1850.
Figured I'd post it because it's just generally neat, and there are occasional discussions of dedicated joinery benches. But it's also pertinent to me right now. I'm now in a place where I can really sort out the work-holding options on my current bench, but it's got one fundamental flaw. When I was gluing it up, I used the wrong type of screws to hold the flat laminations together and the heads snapped off a bunch of them. So if I want to excavate sections of it for vises, I have a whole lot of little landmines just waiting for my router bits and saw blades. I'm thinking of drilling the rest of the dog holes (which I can do safely), calling it done, and building something like the above.
Or just wait a day or two and I'll have changed my mind a handful of times. :D
224500
Found it on some auction aggregator site. Dimensions are listed as 30" H, 15" W, 31" L, wood is listed as walnut, age is given as ~1850.
Figured I'd post it because it's just generally neat, and there are occasional discussions of dedicated joinery benches. But it's also pertinent to me right now. I'm now in a place where I can really sort out the work-holding options on my current bench, but it's got one fundamental flaw. When I was gluing it up, I used the wrong type of screws to hold the flat laminations together and the heads snapped off a bunch of them. So if I want to excavate sections of it for vises, I have a whole lot of little landmines just waiting for my router bits and saw blades. I'm thinking of drilling the rest of the dog holes (which I can do safely), calling it done, and building something like the above.
Or just wait a day or two and I'll have changed my mind a handful of times. :D