| Blog series by Tomcat1066 | updated 664 days ago | 3 parts | 2103 reads | 25 comments total |
Part 1: Starting to plan
OK, so I’ve run my mouth a few times here, and everyone has been great. This is truly a great community, and so I figured this would be as good a place as any to document every step of my workbench project. First, a bit of background. I will probably not start this until moving into the new house with it’s 6’x6’ storage room that will be my workshop. It’s going to be…cozy I guess…in that room. I’ve opted to use hand tools primarily (docum...
Part 2: The Next Step
This past Tuesday, Chris Schwarz’s Workbench book showed up on my doorstep. Needless to say, Tom is a happy camper. It was read completely before bed that night. Yeah, I’m pathetic. Going into the book, I had a deep affection for the English Workbench that Chris built, and was eager to build my own version. After reading the book though, I still want to. However, until/unless my tiny shop situation changes, I don’t think that’s a good idea. Instead, I’...
Part 3: The Hybrid
This morning I awoke to the meows of a hungry cat. This is fairly typical. She knows that I get up at 5:00 AM during the week, so she makes sure I don’t oversleep. This is usually a good thing, except she does the same thing on weekends. Anyways, I digress. After feeding the cat, I pop over to Chris Schwarz's blog on the Woodworking magazine site. It usually has all sorts of interesting bits of information. Today, he posted a workbench built by one of his readers. He had been ...
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