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Thanks. Very careful attention to all the things you might expect to find in a WW shop.
Including me! I'm the old guy/visitor, sitting in the back by the stove.

There's always a rebel who doesn't wear a cap.

He also is putting one heck of an undercut on those dovetails

Originally Posted by Polie

He also is putting one heck of an undercut on those dovetails

Looks like a 1-finger grip on the handsaw ...

maybe after a bandsawing accident?

Paul

Looks like the planing bench is lower than all the rest, too. See the fellow nearly bent double over his plane?

Maybe the benches were planned for child labor?

Probably more recently, some wood shops got power from a waterwheel.
Into the shop in the form of a long overhead shaft with various "take-off"
leather belt drives for wood working machinery, such as a lathe.
Anybody have a notion of the era in which that change began to take place?

Compare the description of the workshop ... Jim Kingschott

Paul

Originally Posted by Robson Valley

Maybe the benches were planned for child labor?

Probably more recently, some wood shops got power from a waterwheel.
Into the shop in the form of a long overhead shaft with various "take-off"
leather belt drives for wood working machinery, such as a lathe.
Anybody have a notion of the era in which that change began to take place?

'Big' industry would have had water-power first. Wikipedia says ... Domesday book 1086 = 6000 mills across England. (!)

Steam might have been more 'portable' to workshops?

Paul

Originally Posted by homesy135

Looks like the planing bench is lower than all the rest, too. See the fellow nearly bent double over his plane?

No. He's standing on his shavings.

If you were going to make a hanging timber store like that, what would be the best/strongest way to attach the lower horizontal to the vertical?
There could be a reasonable weight piled in there.

(a) dovetail (with the pins on the horizontal), or

(b) mortice and tenon (tenon on the horizontal) ?

... (b) could be drawbored, so I'm guessing that.

Maybe some metal straps on the corner?

Cheers,
Paul