Workbench Photo-Op

[Julie Moriarty]

Whether you made it from scratch, improved it or purchased it... Put a picture of your workbench here.


http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/ab233/jules42651/Woodworking/Tools/workbench_09_zpsf510497b.jpg

I bought the bench, made the drawers (maple sides, beech fronts), made the inserts from beech and added the tool slots in back. I have no idea how I went for decades without one. :confused:

[Matthew N. Masail]

Gorgeous....

[Roy Lindberry]

Whether you made it from scratch, improved it or purchased it... Put a picture of your workbench here.


http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/ab233/jules42651/Woodworking/Tools/workbench_09_zpsf510497b.jpg

I bought the bench, made the drawers (maple sides, beech fronts), made the inserts from beech and added the tool slots in back. I have no idea how I went for decades without one. :confused:

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Made from scratch.

[greg Forster]

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[Joe A Faulkner]

Two pine, splayed leg saw horses, a 10' 2x12 on a couple of cleats, and a 150' of 8/4 rough-sawn hard maple with one edge hand jointed?

[Leigh Betsch]

For a similar thread check out the Show us your bench thread in the announcement sticky:
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=124750

[Gary Viggers]

The top is made from three boards of 16/4 hard maple. Because of some twist I only got about 3-1/2" of final thickness. Rails are drawbored into the legs. Record hold down in the center. The leg vise has the Crisscross from Bencrafted. Shiplapped bottom shelf. The end vise uses a Record 52-1/2.


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[Frederick Skelly]

Wow Julie. Thats a heckova bench!

[Julie Moriarty]

For a similar thread check out the Show us your bench thread in the announcement sticky:
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=124750

Thanks! I did a search for something like that and a bunch of other threads came up but not that one. Guess I should have looked at the stickys first. :rolleyes: I find it really informative to see how we get things done. Just pictures of the workbench are loaded with ideas. :)

[Don Dorn]

The top is made from three boards of 16/4 hard maple. Because of some twist I only got about 3-1/2" of final thickness. Rails are drawbored into the legs. Record hold down in the center. The leg vise has the Crisscross from Bencrafted. Shiplapped bottom shelf. The end vise uses a Record 52-1/2.



That's a beautiful bench - obviously took a lot of work and expense, but I think the result was worth it. I'd be too afraid to scar it up which is why mine is a basic top out of laminated pine and Record style vices. Even though it works perfect, it's very scared and I won't show it until we have an ugly bench contest.

Enjoy the fruits of your labor - very nice.

[Chris Griggs]

Julie, that under bench storage looks awesome! Very well laid out. Something like that is definitely part of the plan for my next bench build (hopefully, happening soon )

[Mark Dougan]

I'm brand new to all this and somewhat lacking in space( until I clear out the garage........one day.)
So here is my workbench. A slightly modified "Milkman's Workbench" shamelessly copied from Practical Woodworking.
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[Chris Hachet]

Absolutely beautiful, Julie. An inspiration to me to get my woodworking house "in Order."

[Cody Cantrell]

This is my bench. It came from a closed cabinet shop. I paid $100 for it and a bunch of USA made c clamps. I added the Veritas wagon vise and the tools. One of these days I intend to make a Shaker style base for it but there always seem to be more pressing things to build.
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[Chris Griggs]

This is my bench. It came from a closed cabinet shop. I paid $100 for it and a bunch of USA made c clamps. I added the Veritas wagon vise and the tools. One of these days I intend to make a Shaker style base for it but there always seem to be more pressing things to build.
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Holy Cow! The vise on that alone (assuming its fully functional and probably even if its not) is worth a quite bit more than you paid for the whole bench. NICE WORK!!!

[Cody Cantrell]

It has everything but the pivoting attatchment. Its the K1 universal type 5 I believe. I thought maybe ity was gloat worthy.

[Adam Cruea]

I made my bench out of hickory and trimmed it in jatoba. Don't really know the style of it, but I do know that it was hard to put together, but such a learning experience. I would do it again in a heartbeat!

Here's a picture of it finished with a coat of BLO:

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Pictures of the base:

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The only metal on it is for the Lie-Nielsen and Lee-Valley twin-screw vises. Everything is either M&T draw-bored or dovetailed.

The bottom was left open and is currently getting filled with finishes, solvents, and the shipping crate for my LN #51. My shooting board also rests over the lower stretchers for storage.

[edit]Forgot to add it was completely done by hand, except drilling any holes. I have no hand-powered drill, only a DeWalt 18-V and a hammer drill. The hammer was used with the top because the batteries in my 18V would die after doing a row of 3/4 inch holes.

[Dave Anderson NH]

Nice steal Cody. I absolutely love my Emmert K1 and I do have the pivoting head. I use it quite often in the vertical position and it effectively raises my 29.5" high bench about 6-7" for things like small bits of carving and odd shaping.

[Adam Cruea]

Nice steal Cody. I absolutely love my Emmert K1 and I do have the pivoting head. I use it quite often in the vertical position and it effectively raises my 29.5" high bench about 6-7" for things like small bits of carving and odd shaping.

I don't believe you use that thing, Dave. Your shop is WAY too clean and orderly! lol

[Paul Incognito]

I have a bunch of reclaimed floor joists and beams laying around my shop. I finally got around to building this one out of old growth douglas fir with red pine legs. I tried a homemade crisscross on the leg vise but wasn't happy with it, so it now has a parallel guide. The wagon vise is my own making with a 1-1/2" wood screw. I finished this bench in August.
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Then I looked at my salvaged wood pile and though I should do something with the heart pine that's been laying around. So I built this one. Heart pine top and stretchers with red pine legs. The vises are flea market finds. I just finished it last weekend. Now I just have to figure out where to put it.
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[Michael Peet]

Here's mine, solid ash and made with my own blood, sweat, and tears:

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For a relative beginner the Roubo was accessible and straightforward to build. Now after using it for a couple years there isn't much I would change. I would probably lose the planing stop and add more dogs out to the end. I would also switch out the parallel guide for a Crisscross, which didn't exist at the time. I love using this capable and heavy bench.

Build process documented here: http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?163291-My-Roubo-Build

Mike

[Judson Green]

Here's my bench. Made it about a year ago. Used a solid for door and trimmed out with hard maple. Not real pretty but works good for now. The storage under is for bulky items, I don't need to get in there often.

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[Jim Matthews]

This is one of the best-looking benches I've seen to date.

The "walking deadman" must define the plane of the front apron,
I gather? It's neat, compact and well lit.

Three things I wish I could say about my bench...

[Paul Incognito]

Here's my bench. Made it about a year ago. Used a solid for door and trimmed out with hard maple. Not real pretty but works good for now. The storage under is for bulky items, I don't need to get in there often.

That's a nice bench. I particularly like the shelves behind it. Keeps everything close at hand without being in the way.
I used a "door off the floor" for years and it served me well.
PI

[Judson Green]

Wow gee thanks guys.

I like the term "walking deadman". Yes it is in line, just a little back from, the face of the apron.

[Malcolm Schweizer]

Nice steal Cody. I absolutely love my Emmert K1 and I do have the pivoting head. I use it quite often in the vertical position and it effectively raises my 29.5" high bench about 6-7" for things like small bits of carving and odd shaping.

Nice shop, Dave. I just saved your pic to my shop ideas file. I love the plane storage.

[Edward Mitton]

273496OK...here's my bench. Not much, but it works for me. The top is an old solid core door that was scavenged from an old school elementary school re-model back in 1993. I worked at the school district at the time, so this was a freebie. I had this thing sitting in my garage(s) for 18 years and dragged it along through 2 house moves until I finally got around to building the bench 2 years ago.
The bench frame is made of dumpster dove dimension lumber. The drawers under the bench came from my old waterbed. The wood vise came from the same school district when they were getting rid of wood and metal shops. I've dragged it around for 20 years as well. It didn't get mounted to the bench until last spring! OK...I'm slow. In case you're wondering, the ship model is a 16th century Korean war ship (the Turtle Ship) This was another of my 'procrastination' projects. I started building it about 10 years ago. Just this last summer my wife got disgusted because of how long it has sat around and finished it for me. The tool box on the other end of the bench dates back to my days when I was an avid model rocket enthusiast. It is covered with National Association of Rocketry stickers, Estes stickers, Centuri stickers, MPC stickers....The box held my extensive rocket motor selection. Now it holds my household utility tool kit.

[Jacob Nothstine]

My arm is still sore from drilling dog holes. Last weekend I did a complete overhaul of my workbench. Made the first bench 2 years ago out of scrap wood when we moved in. New bench is free standing and made more for woodworking. The top is 2" maple. I picked it up from an auction for $5.00 still need to clean and flatten the top. 273497273498

[Cory Waldrop]

Here is mine.

It lives on the balcony of my apartment. It measures about 2' x 4'.

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[Chris Griggs]

I've posted mine a few time before so most the regulars around here have probably seen it. This is a photo I posted when I first made it. English/Nicholson genetics about 5 1/2' long, 20" deep, and 34" high. Nothing super fancy, but its been a great working bench for me.

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Now that I own a home and have more space I have a larger bench in the works. Paul Incognito who posted his 2 new benches above is going to work with me on it, let me pilfer his lumber pile, and also provide some mega electon power to make the build go quicker and easier. Will be doing something very different than the first. I was going to with a shaker design, but than I saw Sean Hughto's and Chris Fournier's "Fortune/Nelson" benches, proceeded to buy the Scott Landis workbench book and decided that I want to go more like that. It will still have a touch of shaker in it though. I still plan on having underbench storage but am going to make those as add-ins in case I ever need to relocate the bench. I'm also going to keep a sliding deadman which isn't on the Fortune/Nelson as I joint everything by hand and like having the extra support. Probably will be few month before it comes together but I'm pretty set on the design at this point (I think). Here is my sketchup rendering. Length will be give or take 8', depth with be about 24" and I'm going to go a little higher this time and shoot for more like a 36" height (Paul, now that you've seen the design feel free to get started on it without me ;))273513

[Erik Christensen]

my xmas present to myself last year - http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?199916-New-bench-build-complete-lots-of-pics&highlight=

[Tony Shea]

Here is my bench that I made about 2 years ago now. So far I have really liked the bench and is plenty of bench for me. I posted it a lil while back so some may remember seeing it. And as I said I would def rather have a traditional tail vise instead of the quick release, even a wagon vise I would prefer over the QR vise. I also plan on using maple or some other hardwood for the top on the next bench. I love the doug fir in its' appearance and ease of flattening but still think a hardwood would be a bit nicer overall. I've been trying to mull up ideas on how to change over the QR vise to a wagon or tail without it being too much work. But I may just wait until I retop the bench with hardwood.


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[Tim Janssen]

I posted the following thread on another forum some 7 years ago, but I still have and use the bench.
So here is my bench:

Another lift, the "Benchlift"

I built this bench and the benchlift about 5,1/2 years ago, shortly after
I bought my BT3000.
The bench is an adaptation of a bench in “Making Workbenches”, a
book by Sam Allen. The lift is my own idea.
The legs are fir, the stretchers spruce and the top is made of 3 layers
of ¾” MDF with a sacrificial layer of ¼” masonite(hardboard) with
a “skirt” around it from ¾” oak. The whole bench can be disassembled,
The stretchers and legs are held together with long threaded rods,
nuts and washers. The top is held onto the upper stretchers with
clips.
The pull-out shelf is to hold tools, I use frequently, etc., it tends to
become a bit of a catch-all though, sometimes. Just below the top is
a ¼” panel that slides out, it stops sawdust etc from falling through
the benchdog holes onto the tool shelf. I store the handle for the jack
there. The bottom shelf lifts out, it’s where I put scraps, cut-offs, etc.
The benchdog holes are ¾” and the benchdogs are ¾” dowels with a
short piece of hose around the top to keep them from falling through
the holes
The end vise is a twinscrew vise from Lee Valley. The vise at the front
is a quick release vise. The standard vise lying on top of the bench is
mounted on a ¾” piece of plywood bolted through a piece of 2x4 and it
can be clamped in the wood vise so I don’t damage the wood vise if I
want to work on metal stuff.
Because my shop is small, I need to be able to move the bench
sometimes. It’s a heavy brute. I estimate it to weigh about 300lbs.
So it needed something substantial and what you see in the pictures
and the drawings, is what I came up with.
A small car jack for ten bucks, picked up at the scrap yard, 4 heavy
duty swivel casters and 6 butt hinges, nuts and bolts of course.
The rest is basically scrap lumber I already had.
I have not given any dimensions in the drawings, not to be secretive
about it, but anyone who would like to copy it, would have to adapt
it to their own bench dimension anyway.
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I hope the drawings still work, they should open with Adobe, I believe.

Tim

[Brian Holcombe]

Here's my work in progress.

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c181/SpeedyGoomba/null_zps29b4d93f.jpg

[Matthew N. Masail]

Started out as 1 1\2 inch plywood on a base, then got a solid wood layer on top and various reinforcements. Wagon vise doubles as a holding vise and was about 10$ in hardware supplies. planing stop is wide and tight, best addition to the bench so far. If I were to change anything it would be to build in a cabinet and add a sliding deadman. holdfasts are on the way.





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[Jeff Heath]

Here's mine.....5" thick maple top, 24" wide X 96" long. Base is cherry legs, 3.5" x 5", with 2"X6" maple rails. End cap is cherry, and so is the sliding deadman. The wagon vise and leg vise hardware were purchased from Jameel at Benchcrafted.......love it and highly recommend it.

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[Rob Luter]

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2583/4103275307_f30a5080da_b.jpghttp://farm3.staticflickr.com/2644/4103267423_55043d4628_b.jpghttp://farm3.staticflickr.com/2674/4104026708_bf9aa479f9_b.jpg Here's one I made a few years ago. It was still "shiny new" in these shots. It's developed a bit of a patina now.

[Rich Riddle]

Here is my utility bench in the garage. I turned 50 this year and plan to replace the bench prior to the next birthday. It won't be a work of art, but it's been narrowed down to 2 or 3 designs. Strange thing is lots of things have been made on this less than pretty or practical bench. On the left side of the wooden structure is an avionics bench from an aircraft carrier. It works.277849

[Graham Haydon]

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Here's mine and the whole story on it http://gshaydon.co.uk/blog/the-workbench there a few vids there if you are interested . The stock prep was by machine but the rest was hand made. I just had a wooden vice screw arrive that is supposed to be a "second and not fit for sale" by this guy (http://www.theenglishwoodworker.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=65_71&products_id=181). If it's a second the "first" must be awesome!

[glenn bradley]

This was built as my "next" bench back in 2007. Despite several things I would do differently and an ongoing conversation with myself about swinging this unit around to serve as a tablesaw outfeed/2nd bench and build another, I continue to use it happily.

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[Bill Huber]

Now all these benches look like they should work but now here is a real bench.....:D:D

Looking at these makes me want to build one but I just don't have a place to put it so I guess I will just have to stick with what I have..:mad:


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[Shawn Pixley]

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Mine is embarassing. Laminated mdf and hardwood glue-up top on two plastic sawhorses. It has a front vise, dog holes, and recessed kreg track in the top. It weighs about 130 lbs and I lift it onto the sawhorses as i convert the garage to the shop and back again (weekly). But the top is flat and I don't worry about damaging it. It works for me at this time.

[Lee Reep]

I am always impressed with seeing the level of sophistication and detail on custom workbenches that are made by members of this forum and others. I have been saying for 15 or more years that when I "complete that next project", I'll build a custom bench. Well, I finally did, but it is pretty simple. In the past month I decided to delay the purchase of a SawStop cabinet saw. I instead decided to buy a Festool track saw, since my need is for a saw that can easily break down sheet goods. I was blown away by the type of cabinetry being done using a track saw for breaking down plywood.

However, I am a hobbyist, and so Festool's MFT workbench, while being great for its portability, really did no fit my model. I CNC-machined a 36" X 84" MDF top with 20mm holes, so I could basically have my own super-sized MFT. Since this is an experiment to see if size makes sense, I built the framework with 2x4s and the legs are 4x4s. But I did go to a quality lumber supplier in town to buy the best I could find, rather than digging thru the racks at Home Depot. :)

I'll eventually add a vise, maybe 2, and add some storage below, but so far, this workbench has proven to be a great platform for my track saw. I also built it to double as the outfeed table for my table saw. And after Christmas presents are done, I'll build a planer cart so I can use the workbench as an outfeed table for my planer.

Here is a picture. Shown is the 55" guide rail that comes with the saw. I also have the 75" rail, so I can join them and easily break down 4X8 sheets of plywood.

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[steven c newman]

277876Just some scraps of wood to make a small, but just right sized , bench. 2x10 from a waterbed frame supplied most of the lumber, a couple scrounged 2x4s, an old door side piece and even an old foot board to floor the tool well with. Will try to get a few better looks, IF this site will let them through277880pipe clamp works for the leg vise. Had a few other photos, but I get that red ! message????

[Jim Matthews]

(that's red DYE on the top)

Why throw away the chance for a perfectly good tall tale?
"There I was eye to eye with a rabid honey badger with my last piece of Zebra wood in its jaws..."

[Clayton Lambert]

This is my Hasluck Style bench I built from plans via the Woodwrights Guide. Its made of some circa 1850's poplar beams I got for free through my work, and some Lowes douglas fir for the legs.

The wooden vice screw was a chance $10.00 find at a flea market and it works just dandy. Since taking these photos back in April, I have added some Gramercy holdfasts, and a whole lotta dents and stains :)
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[Joe A Faulkner]

Completed the basic bench in February/March time frame. Still need to add the deadman and build storage cabinet. 88" x 23". Twin Screw tail vise; leg vise featuring a wooden screw and hub from Matthew Evans (http://www.thetraditionalcarpenter.com/Blog/?page_id=2).

[Don Kingston]

Julie and every one else, great looking work. My benches are old kitchen cabinets with counter top. need to add lots of pull out shelves. Or different horses with 2x's and a sheet or 2 of 3/4 plywood thrown across for my top. Sometimes I run some screws through to keep it in place.

[ken hatch]

I just finished building a new bench. I've always made my benches out of SYP but this time I wanted a pretty bench as well as a functional one. I found a good price on 8/4 European Beech a couple of months ago, started dimensioning just over two hundred BF June 15th and finished the bench the last week of July.

Over the years I've tried a number of vises, face, leg, tail, wagon and so on on my work benches. What I've found works best for my way of working is a vintage Record/Paramo face vise and no tail vise, wagon or other. For working faces of boards stops, battens, and holdfasts work much easier and faster with no chance of bowing thin work. The new bench has an asymmetrical split top that is 625mm wide (about 25" for those still stuck in the foot, inch, pound, stone world) that is 100mm thick (4"), and 2485mm long (97"). It stands 880mm high (35"). I figure from the approximate BF it weights close to 200 kilos (500lbs.). It has a Paramo #52 face vise that I've had on one or another bench since the 70's, a few 3/4" round dog holes for stops and holdfasts and that is about all. I expect over time I will add a few more dog holes as needed and a bench jack once I find time to build one.

Bottom line: I've taken everything that is not used or needed off and made a very simple bench that works for me and is a pleasure to use because there is nothing extra to get in the way.

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[george wilson]

What a nice bunch of benches!! I would be happy if Julie would come down here for a few weeks and stay with us,and organize my shop and bench better!!!

[Greg Portland]

Here's a not so great picture of my bench before I added jaw faces. This was made for <$200 (not including the end vise hardware) and took 1/2 a day to build. The base is 3 torsion boxes connected via threaded rod (edges are left proud to eliminate wiggle). The top is another torsion box with a 2x6/1x6/2x6 sandwich for the dog holes on each side. The metal plate on the top is for a Kreg jig clamp. I've added holes along the face to support longer work when the boards are on edge.


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[Bruce Page]

Mine is definitely not a Neander bench. I wanted big (36”x96” top), tall (42”), heavy, and solid. And I wanted lots of storage. The 14 drawers are 18” deep and the cabinet holds most of my portable power tools. The frame is M&T 8/4, raised panel construction with 8 panels on the backside that the spiders can enjoy.

It’s about 15 years old.

[Don Kingston]

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Mine is embarassing. Laminated mdf and hardwood glue-up top on two plastic sawhorses. It has a front vise, dog holes, and recessed kreg track in the top. It weighs about 130 lbs and I lift it onto the sawhorses as i convert the garage to the shop and back again (weekly). But the top is flat and I don't worry about damaging it. It works for me at this time.

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[Tom M King]

I've had all the wood, and parts for building a nice big one for years, but since I bought this one new in 1977 for $199 it's been the one that gets used. It's the little 5 foot Lervad. The top sits on the fold-up base on pins in each leg. I usually put the corner up against a North facing window since it probably doesn't weigh more than 50 pounds total. When I need a longer top, like in this picture, a 2x gets laid on the top with the off end supported with an adjustable roller support.

In this case the piece of molding being made is held in place on the 2x with 4d finish nails at the head and off side. The 2x has a block screwed to the bottom of it, held in the shoulder vise.

The big bench project has been relegated to "free time", but I haven't had any of that in years, and doing this all day, I have other stuff I like to do on weekends. Maybe I'll get to the fancy bench when I retire.

[Tom M King]

The full width tail vise is a handy thing, and the new, big bench has a big chunk of Tiger Maple waiting for that one.

The saw in the picture is not new, did not cost 200 bucks, is not filed hybrid, but averaged seven strokes on this cut. The shoulder cutoff was done with a 20 buck, made in England, Japanese pull saw. I used the pullsaw because I could flex it through the cut with one hand on the end of the blade, so that the shoulder edges could be flush, but with a little relief between the inside and outside shoulders.

[Tom M King]

I realized the last photo I posted didn't show any advantage to the tailvise over any other vise.........

This could also go in the Iwasaki file thread.

[Derek Cohen]

My bench was build fairly recently (Jan/Feb 2012). Here is a link for those who are looking for pointers.

This link takes you to the index: http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/index.html

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/TooltrayWithaDifference_html_m5de0b7e3.jpg

A few interesting ideas are the tool trays attached to the wall (rather than the bench) ..

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/TooltrayWithaDifference_html_m74f6cf70.jpg

There is also an AYS leg vise chain adjuster ..

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ToolReviews/AYSLegViseChainAdjuster.html

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ToolReviews/AYSLegViseChainAdjuster_html_673377d5.jpg


This year I built a smaller version :)

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/BenchInAWeekend_html_7a54bd14.jpg

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/BenchInAWeekend.html

This may be of interest if you want a simple DIY wagon vise ..

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/BenchInAWeekend_html_6f216e7f.jpg

Regards from Perth

Derek

[Brian Holcombe]

Gorgeous! Very nice work.

[maximillian arango]

Some really nice benches

[Lara Chan]

What's your top made out of?

[Jim Koepke]

Hi Lara and welcome to the Creek.

You may have not noticed this thread is a few years old.

It looks like the bench you are asking about might be Derek Cohen's, is that correct?

jtk

[David Ryle]

Dave, is that curtains on the windows?