Workbench for $175 #3: It lives !!

Looks great!

-- jack -- ...measure once, curse twice!

So cool, I cant wait to see it done.
Marry christmas,
Mads

-- Mad F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect. Democraticwoodworking.

Very cool.
Merry christmas, and a happy New Year….

Thanks, Michael Frey
Portland, OR

FREY WOODWORKING INC.

Very nice, I need a bench like that. AND a band saw like that!

-- Lovin' sawdust in beautiful Fort Collins, Colorado

Pretty good blog series. Your workbench looks great!

-- John in Arizona (but it's a dry heat!)

Looking great, Neil, you are gonna like that bench….......and you are already storing things under it….......(-:

Watco clear will look good, and stink up the shop…......I know…...........

Jim

-- Jim, Anchorage Alaska

Sweet! That’s what I’m talking about, nice solid bench, clean design, very affordable! Merry Christmas Neil!

-- Bob A in NJ

Excellent work. Love the details.

Ben

Neil, thats a great workbench.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

Neil your bench is coming along great.

Jamie

-- Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is all together, looking good Neil.

-- Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgement.

Very nice, Neil. It looks elegant AND solid!
Merry Christmas.
Ellen

-- Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Looks mighty handsome, just sitting there.

So you are going to wrap all 4 sides with a maple skirt? I was thinking about expansion/contraction if you wrap the end-grain ends with side-grain maple. That is why I just went with two skirts. I glued the front skirt. My end skirt is dovetailed to the front in the corner, and slides on a tenon. Guess I was little cautious. (?) So I think if you wrap all 4 sides, then don’t connect the skirts together at all 4 of the corners.

Anyway, food for thought.

Steve

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Sweet Neil!

Is it too late to put one on my Santa list? ;)

Paul

ps Merry Christmas

Thanks—as always—to all !

Steve: EXCELLENT point about wrapping all four sides. Expansion would render my (naturally) perfect miters VERY imperfect ! I’ll have to think on that one, a bit !

Paul: the Santa I believe in … loves that after-Christmas sales, so …. never too late :-)

Hoping to post the dog-holed, vise-installed, finished project soon.

Meanwhile, some hiking in our beautiful local State Park, today, and—with a big bit of luck—skiing tomorrow, and snowshoeing on Sunday !

And … Merry Christmas to you, too, and … to everybody !

-- -- Neil