New Bench ideas ( a bit of a gloat)

Re: New Bench ideas ( a bit of a gloat)

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>I've seen pictures of a sliding deadman on a Shaker bench. The sliding permitted getting into drawers/doors, as you could slide it out of the way of the one you needed to get into.

Leg vises are nifty tools.

Re: New Bench ideas ( a bit of a gloat)

Jack Guzman from Maine

>I made my bench with a wooden jawed endvise and a smaller version as a front vise.I found a legvise at a yardsale and clamped it into my endvise and it's almost all I use anymore.---Jack

Leg vise

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>I like the looks of that leg vise, assuming the lower horizontal piece attaches on the left side of the leg (vs running into a middle slot). This would make using the vise much easier, could just use a foot to make adjustments.

Pam

Norm Vandal's Bench

Jeff Schmidt (KY)

>Jeff,

In Scott Landis' The Workbench Book there is a bench by Norm Vandal that is of the Shaker style complete with bathroom vanity underneath as well as a sliding deadman and a legvise. Sounds right up yor alley. There are plans in the back of the book for his bench.

Re: New Bench ideas ( a bit of a gloat)

Bob Hutchins in Central Texas

>Howdy Jeff!

Unless I'm having another bout of CRS, I believe you can make your board jack so that it not only slides in tracks top and bottom but such that it can be lifted out and stowed, too. The pressure on the jack is mostly downward; so if it's sized right it can be lifted up into the upper track, spun and lifted out of the bottom track, and you oughta be able to remove it. I think that's how they were put in the old Shaker benches with cabinets in 'em.

Can't remember zackly where I saw or read about this, though. Maybe someone else will remember.

HTH

BobH

Re: New Bench ideas ( a bit of a gloat) *LINK*

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>With all of those drawers, you could do something like this fellow did.

(Scroll down and click on Panel on an Open Drawer)


Ken Vaugn's Bench

My Bench *LINK*

Jim Shaver - Oakville, Ontario

>Hi Jeff,

I went through the same concerns when I was looking at designs for my bench. In the end I went with the tradional shaker bench in the Landis book, minus the doors, all drawers.

I still am working on a dead man, but I made my slot and rail for it so it could be lifed in and out if it was in the way, much like a sliding patio door.

Take care,

Jim


My Shaker Bench