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'European style' (roughly)
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Mostly fine furniture, but lately lots of saw handles & marking gauges.....
MATERIALS (timber species etc):
Sugar Maple, Walnut, Rosewood tail-vise screw, spalted Foambark (drawer fronts & cupboard doors) & ply:
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VISES INCLUDED:
Face vice: Home made:Attachment 265210
Tail vice: Ditto :Attachment 265215
LINK TO YOUR BUILD THREAD (if applicable):
Built quite a few years before the internet was invented, I'm afraid. :U
BRIEF DESCRIPTION:
I had a table saw & router (which I used for cutting dog slots & some grooves for splines) but mostly done with hand tools, so decoration was kept to a minimum.
Height 850mm, Length 1800mm, W 500mm (including tool well).
THINGS YOU PARTICULARLY LIKE
Solid, doesn't move a mm under heavy planning or sawing. Can do almost everything I need with a few extras like the "Moxon" style vise for dovetailing wide boards.
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THINGS THAT YOU WOULD CHANGE :~(in retrospect):
A bit longer (not much) would have been handy on occasion, but I can live with it as-is.
My biggest mistake was to space the dog-holes in the tail vise the same as on the bench top. That meant if something just didn't quite fit in one position, there was a lot of winding to get it to the right spot. Murphy always made sure that each time I went to put something in it, this occurred. So I fixed that by pulling the vise to bits (major surgery!) & adding more dog holes at half the spacing of the bench holes.
THINGS THAT YOU WOULD INCORPORATE NEXT TIME :doh::
A slightly thicker top & some appropriate holes opposite the tail vise, so I could use a holdfast - something I didn't appreciate the value of at the time. I only need one occasionally, but it would be so much quicker & easier than using clamps, as I have to do now.
WHAT or WHO INSPIRED SOME OF THE INCLUSIONS (provide links):
It's based on the Frank Klausz bench featured in FWW waaaay back. The size is close to Frank's but I deleted the shoulder vise, so the left & right leg assemblies are the same instead of having the 3-legged left set as on his.
Cheers,