What wood is used for the Anthony Hay workbench at Colonial Williamsburg?
What wood is used for the Anthony Hay workbench at Colonial Williamsburg?
They are maple.
Yes,they are English style benches made of hard maple. I was there while they were being made. Very unhandily,I think,one of the sections of the top slides open,revealing a tool storage well beneath. They rely heavily upon hold fasts to clamp the work.