Manual

after spending time in curtis buchanan's workshop for a full week and understanding how pleasant work can be when the tools are logica...

Finally conjured the strength to drill an array of 3/4" holes through the top of my bench. These holes can then be used by various kin...

I saved all Saturday just for the mortises. Four inches deep, 2" wide or thereabouts. Ouch. So I wimped out and got my trusty hand dril...

I had planned on using draw bored pegs to provide the tension necessary to hold the long stretchers in place when building the trestle. How...

Well, OK then! Now that the legs are cut to length, time to put the stretchers together. I'm making the stretchers out of, GET THIS, rec...

Here's how the legs will be spaced, overall height will be about 33" tall so that I can get over the bench planes when working the ...

time to get this twinscrew vice in place. Most designs i've seen have tabs cantilevered off of the bottom of the benchtop which accept ...

Yup, spent an evening after work beavering away at the bottom surface of the top now that the glue's reasonably dry. You want this sort...