Over the past month or so, I have had a chance to use the mini-bench. It was well worth the time and effort to build. Working on a project piece in a more upright stance isn’t just comfortable it’s more accurate. I’m finding my quality of work has improved. The face vise is working great. [...]
Today I had time to put the finishing touches on the Small Benchtop Bench. The replacement hand wheels came in early this week, and it was hard not having time earlier this week to work on the bench. I’ve had a couple stalled projects lately and I really wanted to complete something. The first order [...]
I had plans to finish the Small Benchtop Bench this weekend, but I must have angered the woodworking gods somehow. Because the last couple of times I’ve worked on it, things haven’t gone well. When I last worked on the bench I was attaching the face vise. I cut a couple garters out of some [...]
I needed a break from all of the dovetailing I’ve been doing and practicing. I thought I would start on the Baby Bench I talked about a little while ago. Over the past couple of weekends I started to work on the bench. I’m using whatever wood I had in my woodpile. The top is [...]
I have seen several magazine articles about benchtop benches over the years. These little benches go on top of your workbench, to raise your work to a more comfortable height. When I first read about these benches, I really had no interest in them. They seemed unnecessary. Now that I have been cutting more dovetails, [...]
The newest DVD from Christopher Schwarz and Lie-Neilsen is: The Workbench “How to Design or Modify a Bench for Efficient Use”. The DVDs produced by Lie-Nielsen are always of high quality and full of good information. This new DVD featuring Christopher Schwarz talking about one of his favorite subjects (workbenches) is no exception. If you [...]
In this post, I’m going to go into some detail on how we built our sawbenchs. I’m going to explain the types of cuts (1st, 2nd, and 3rd-class) we used. This should give you and idea of when to use the different types of cuts and why. The next 2 days of the class were [...]
