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• A Workbench's Progress #11: The End's in Sight! - 407 days ago | 9 comments

  Hooray! The final glue-up of all the pieces is finished, and boy am I tired! The last post le...

• A Workbench's Progress #10: The Mother of Invention - 421 days ago | 3 comments

  Sometimes you can stare at a problem with a project for days (or longer) before a solution comes ...

• A Workbench's Progress #9: Cutting Tenons the Old-Fashioned Way (sort of...) - 429 days ago | 5 comments

  Building this workbench has made me rethink a lot of things. Joinery on this scale is completely...

• Tool Reviews #1: Veritas Large Shoulder Plane - 430 days ago | 27 comments

  Every now and then you stumble upon a tool that makes you wonder how you ever got by without it. ...

• A Workbench's Progress #8: Glue-up's Finished - 432 days ago | 7 comments

  The easy part’s over—all of the base components have been glued up, trued up, and eve...

• A Workbench's Progress #7: The Base Begins - 446 days ago | 4 comments

  Well, the next phase of the workbench project is now under way. I went to a local lumber yard th...

• A Workbench's Progress #6: Base plan - 460 days ago | 9 comments

  As requested, here is my basic plan for the workbench base. This was my first (semi) success...

• A Workbench's Progress #5: Leveling the playing field - 462 days ago | 10 comments

  Now for the hard part – leveling the top. As I previously mentioned, there was considerabl...

• A Workbench's Progress #4: Squeeze play - 463 days ago | 7 comments

  After the holes were bored and the jaws were shaped, it was time for installation. Every vise ha...

• A Workbench's Progress #3: How much wood will $80 buy? - 463 days ago | 7 comments

  I decided at this point that I should install the front and end vises with their wooden jaws prio...

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