After a comment on my bench about a bench off, I thought its a great idea. There all the threads about planes, braces, powertools of your dreams, etc. How about it on benches.
Pic of your bench or one you are going to buy or build and Why its best. The topic should provide some info for the woodworking getting ready to build or buy as well as give us a place to gloat.
Plus even though I'm not building another bench, I still love looking at others.
UPDATE
I haven't been on in a while but I just seen a pm when i got on today. It appears the tag "smackdown" is being added to the benches shown here, so you can click here and see em all.
That is the only way this makes sense. I guess it is just difficult for me wrap my head around the fact that he actually built the bench with no intention to use it…for woodworking. There is mention of an intention to use it.
He probably throws a sheet of plywood on some horses to work in the shop. Let me guess, he has a tablesaw as an end table and a spindle sander for a lazy Suzanne.
Someone will break into his house & steal the bench & leave the TV. LOL
Can someone post that pic to the link that has the painted furniture? Tell them that painting that furniture is like someone using this beautiful woodworking bench for a TV stand.
Of course my vises came in today and I have no time to work on the bench. I have to say though, the Veritas vises are worth every penny they sell for, these things are works of art. The mechanics, the attention to detail and the overall design are impeccable. While I haven't put them to use yet, I'm pretty confident they will work as well as they look. I plan on a full blog of the build of the bench and a review of all 3 vises when I'm done. More to come.
I got the twin screw for the end, the bench front quick release for the front left and the tail quick release for the left rear. Here are pics of 2 of the 3 vises. The twin screw comes disassembled so it's a cardboard box for now.
I have a standard "large front vise" from LV, but those quick release vises are night-and-day nicer than my vise! I bet you're having fun just staring at those things.
I'll never get tired of checking out everybody's benches.
First furniture build on my new roubo. Biggest surprise has been how handy the leg vise and deadman have been for large panels. The 8' length is nice as well. -Red
I really struggled on weather or not to do a leg vise. That bench you have there is gorgeous, great to see it in action (and not under a TV) LOL
I'm still at work today so I can't even stare at my vices right now darn it. I want to be home finishing my condor tails so I can put this project together.
Thanks man. Ironically, that is the back to a tv stand in my leg vise…lol.
I can't wait to see those veritas vises installed on yours as well. I didn't get to fancy with my end vise. Just used the vise off my old bench. Use it like this. Like it so far.
Look at this over engeneered workbench. The video is in german. They used almost all of the high priced hardware you can get. It´s from the german woodworking magazin "Holzwerken".
P.S. Look at all that festool systainer in the backshelf.
lysdexic, I'm on to a couple of A&C tv stands with a very similar design. They're for the same client/friends. After the sideboard, they saw the tv stand in my house and said, "We'll take two of those. One for upstairs and one for down." Should look like this when I'm done. I mean, it's no mahogany roubo, but it has some nice dvd drawers;-)
HM that's some sweet looking iron. And your DT are looking amazing.
Red love the action shots of the bench. I think face vises on the end look pretty cool. And honestly they are probably the most functional thing you can put there. Nothing gets adjusted in and out as much as the end vise. Oh and that TV stand is top notch man, great work.
Cool video Pasta, is Festool cheaper over there or is it still crazy expensive like it is here?
Here are my workbench action shots from last night.
So far nothing has tested the leg vises grip like shaving sticks with the drawknife. There is absolutely no give with this thing.
Working on a little Welsh'ish stick chairs for the kids.
Hi all! I've been catching up on this thread over the past few weeks…a few pages a day. You guys have built some beautiful benches! Personally, I think the TV stand is a perfect use for that bench…I could never use something that nice as a workbench - I'd be afraid to do any real work on it!
I mostly hang out over at NCWW, but have read many posts here that were referenced from there. Then I came across this thread and had to join. I built my bench about the same time this thread was really getting going. I'm currently working on getting some pics up onto my site. But for now, I'll just say that it is 24×72 and made mostly from red oak, because I had a lot leftover from previous projects. The working surface is done and it's fully usable, but I still have to build a tool cabinet to go under it.
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