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Long-overdue workbench build
I have been wanting to build a workbench for many years but for various reasons I have not done so yet despite numerous false starts. There have been time and space considerations as well as the physical and mental challenges experienced by many of us retired servicemen but right now the project seems to be taking off in a way that I probably could not stop it even if for some unknown reason I wanted it to stop.
When I was learning woodwork as a teenager I had access to a Scandinavian style bench with a tailvise and shouldervise so naturally that is the type of bench I have always been drawn to. The bench I learned on went to the oldest grandson, me being the second-oldest. :rolleyes:
I got copy of "The Workbench Book" by Scott Landis and found the plans for Frank Klausz's bench probably 10 years ago. I also read other works such as Christopher Schwarz's offerings mostly singing the praises of Roubo benches but having looked at all the options objectively I am sticking with the Scandinavian bench and pretty much the Frank Klausz plan. Similar to this one:
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I bought the vise hardware about 10 years ago too and have carted them around with me over a number of relocations including interstate ones.
Over the last few years I have been fortunate enough to have been gifted or managed to scrounge all the timber I need to make the bench. I had not started out with this being the intention. I had always thought I would be buying timber to make it but somehow the alignment of the planets was very favourable. :cool: As the thread goes on I will elaborate on where the various timber components came from. A lot of it it better than I could have hoped to buy for its intended purpose. :2tsup:
I had originally decided not to do a build thread for reasons I will not go into and as such a fair bit of the work has already been done. I have however documented a fair bit of it along the way so I can still post it here retrospectively to show how I have done it.
Over the next couple of days I hope to post some more photos (of the actual bench - not just one like it this time) of what I have done and hopefully if the wind, cold and rain go away and leave me a nice sunny day like yesterday, I might just get some more done.
Back soon.
Doug