Thread: Carver's workbench

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Wow, 8 days.... did you see that Groggy?

Nice bench.

This is a great bench with some very clever user features. I haven't really looked at carver's benches before but can see the variety of methods of presentation of the work and holding methods employed would be very handy.

That one may have to be bolted down.

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

That one may have to be bolted down.

If I find it to be not heavy enough , I'll probably add balast , as was suggested.But that will have to wait-I have to move it indoors-outdoors till I move to another house
The feet are made longer on purpose- they not only give stability for planing, but I could step on them when pushing the carving tool

Just spotted this Ivan, great little bench and WIP
can't wait to see the first job using it

Nice work!

How was the cake too?

Thanks Ivan for presenting your carvers bench as a WIP. I really enjoyed it.

Cheers

Originally Posted by Artesano

If I find it to be not heavy enough , I'll probably add balast , as was suggested....

It is fine, it was actually a dig a Groggy who has a work bench so heavy that it needs 2 people just to turn the top over.

Originally Posted by underfoot

Just spotted this Ivan, great little bench and WIP
can't wait to see the first job using it

And I can't wait to start it - only the timber here is realy expensive , I think a decent block ov wood will set me back between a 120 and 150 euros , sorry don't know what's that in Aus.$ So it will have to wait ...till next week
I visited some galeries with pictures of my stuff , and the guys were realy interested -when you bring your things from Spain, they said, will be happy to try to sell them - and all of the galeries I visited were interested in big works (they just put a hand at about waist height.... )

Au$ 165 - 207

Thanks. So , would it be expensive in your part of the woods for a block of wood (I'm doing the machining and gluing) of , say 1000 X 400 X 250mm. ?
Talking cheap -to-mid priced hardwoods - chestnut , elm , beech, ash . Tropical stuff is much more expensive .
Or is it that wood was much cheaper in Spain and I'm just spoiled?

Just found this WIP. Great work. Just wondering tho, why has the chisel shown got a bend in it. First time I have seen a bent chisel.

That's a great feature ,cookie 48 -it alows you to pare while having the handle high enough ;another tool for the same job is the cranked chisel,wich is probably even better-only the Japanese version I fancy are bl@@dy expensive

Thanks for your detailed WIP Ivan. It looks like a functional (and pretty too) bench!

That is one very cool little bench Ivan, nice work and design.