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I have been considering getting a new marking gage for a while. I really like the one I have . I got it off from a retiring Pattern Maker back in the 80s. The bar is hex so when it gets dull I just rotate it. The long bar comes in handy but it is also sometimes cumbersome so I have been looking...

I have a request to someone to be friends and I don't know what that is. Computers are kind of a mystery to me.

I posted pictures of my finally finished bench a couple of weeks ago, and I though it would be nice to post some pictures of it in use. Having the bottom of the tool tray slide out has some advantages.

A lot of the bench was inspired by a picture of a Shaker bench from Scott Landis's book The Workbench Book. The bench pictured is in a museum in Hancock. Massachusetts. I actually spent a lot of time trying to match the color and still make that part of the bench look old at the same time. I...

I posted, Building Grandsons Christmas Present, earlier on this forum. I did however manage to show my grand son, who is 12, how to assemble his workbench when we had our family Christmas a couple of weeks ago. I didn't put it all together but I thought he had the idea. I did get it to my...

RE: repurposeing There have been, and I am sure there will be again, times when I wished I had a chisel plane. As far as I know my only choices for one was Lee Valley or Lie Nielsen. And those are over $100. Now I had cut the front of from a regular angle Dunlap block plane before and it works...

pictures of the finished bench.

I managed to get one wrong picture so here is the tail vise with a round bench dog.

A lot of times I do not go back and revisit a post once I have looked at it unless there are a lot of views so I thought I would do a new post. Here are some pictures of more uses of the bench. The first is clamping a long board with a shoulder vise. Because it is a split top the next two...

Just some pictures of the bench that is finished.

I took a little time off from building my new bench to get my grandsons Christmas present built. I do not have to far to go. I need to fasten the top on and put some holes in it. I also can't forget the bottom shelf. I have two short bench dogs, one I used in my tail vise, the other works...

Since I posted about the back side I thought I would show as much of the front as I can. The first picture is of me taking the not completed shoulder vise for a spin. Someone, a while back on a different forum said they didn't like a shoulder vise for cutting dovetails because a person had to...

I posted a while back in the design section about laying out for my new bench, I have been busy building so I haven't posted much. I did post in the jigs and fixture section on a couple things I had to build just to build the bench. My new bench is 34 1/2 inches high, just under 8 foot long. I...

I also made an infeed table support for my table saw. The top of my new bench is almost 8 foot long . I made a plywood sled to hold the long pieces of hickory for so I could get a straight line rip I have a roller stand but if I position out far enough to support every thing at the beginning I...

To continue, I while back I bought 4 large pieces of Cherry. The one shown was almost 12 wide 4 inches thick and over ten feet long and weighed 95 pounds. I also had on that came in a 93 pounds. I didn't know what to use it for so I used it for the frame of my new bench. Hence working with...

A while ago I posted in the design section about working up my design about my new work bench. Since then I have been building and haven't taken time to write about the actual building process. One of the problems I have encountered in my 45 years of woodworking as a hobby is using the fence...

Even though it is to cold yet to glue up, needs to be 55 degrees to get a good glue bond. I did get started by cutting a 4 X 11 piece of cherry 11 feet long for the legs. It only weighed 95 bounds.

My first bench had bench dogs and a record type vise ( home made) that didn't have a quick release on it. And depending on the length of the piece being clamped, in many cases, the vise was either all the way open or nearly closed and because the dogs were equally spaced there were many time I...

Probably the most often asked question I see asked on wood working forums, is how high do I make my bench? I stated this in the opening part of the original post and now the time has arrived. So I will restate it. Probably the most often asked question I see asked on wood working forums, is...

When building a bench a lot of thought and planning should go into it. I was planning on making my bench 8" long. Why? because my area sill support an 8 foot bench, And nobody builds them 8 foot long except me. I am going to make the top out of hickory. Why? because I bought a pile of it at an...