No bench? No problem

pretty creative

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

that is awesome and your timing is uncanny as I too am without a bench at the present!! Thanks for posting!

those workmates never die, I still have one I purchased about 35 years ago…

-- Randy "You are judged as much by the questions you ask as the answers you give..."

The best part is this workmate was my grandfather’s. My dad passed it down to me… lol … instead of heirloom planes & chisels, we roll workmate style in my family.

Yea – somewhere in the “workbench smack down” LJ thread, some guy didn’t have a workshop or bench so he used his porch as his shop and the rail as his bench. Thought it was very creative.

-- Bernie: It never gets hot or cold in New Hampshire, just seasonal!

I clamped a planing stop to a clients deck railing and used my block plane to shave down a small board.

-- Fine Custom Woodwork since 1978

is this the railing you remember?

I have since moved to another locale. The back porch on the old place was even covered with it’s own roof!

A nice. solid 2×4 rail. Just about anything could be clamped up on it.

-- A Planer? I'M the planer, this is what I use

If you posted those pics in “work bench smack down”, they would be the ones. I’m impressed by what folks can do when they have nothing, as a matter of fact, that make do bench impressed me more then the real fancy benches I can’t tell you anything about.

-- Bernie: It never gets hot or cold in New Hampshire, just seasonal!