Re: How about grinding the ultimate bench...
William Duffield, on the Cohansey
>But, who's going to pay for the shipping? Steel would be nice, since with rare earth magnets maybe we could do away with dogholes, etc., but a 14' Shaker benchtop in granite might be even better. We've ALL been taught to work ON our benches, not IN them, so inadvertant collisions between cutting tools and the bench top is not a significant issue, right? OTOH, isn't periodic reflattening of one's benchtop as much a rite of passage as building it in the first place?
How about a tail vise, shoulder vise, and holddowns, all with computer-controlled stepping motors, all accurate to .001"?
Rob, I'm sure you have many practical uses for this machine, even though they may eventually be appreciated by the end users of your woodworking tools only in terms of price, precision and quality. Longer straight edges, longer jointer planes, and double tapered two-man crosscut saws aren't going to pay for this level of performance. We don't need to build that many conference tables for Forture 500 board rooms:^) OTOH, I can envision you using it to meet our demands for hundreds or thousands of really, really flat planes. squares, saws, chisels, straightedges, surface plates (and even dibbles and spades and pruning saws and router tables and table saws), if not bench tops.
