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I just used clamps to glue up the four sub-assemblies for the top, but to glue the sub-assemblies to each other, I used my router as a poor man's domino.

I'd made a lexan plate for the router...

Thanks, Ken. The overwhelming lesson to me here was just get off your ass and make one. It's a big project and super scary to start, but the result is a beautiful tool that will literally last for...

It's been working flawlessly for me, no issues at all.

I went with the "solo" option, rather than the "retro" that Chris uses in AWB. I e-mailed Lost Art Press before buying the criss-cross. ...

That's been my main takeaway from this thread. I'd been thinking I was defective.

Added a pair of bench hooks and doe's feet from some cherry scrap I found in the "by the pound" box at the wood store:

Thanks, Maurice. I look forward to seeing what this does over time. The book says it will get harder, but I'm a little skeptical. Selecting the wood was more labor than I expected. I wasn't able...

For what it's worth, on this bench, I had the boards acclimating in my shop for a couple of months before milling. When I milled them, there were definitely a couple of pitchy spots, but by the time...

Thanks, Aj, it's a good reminder. The vise handles are cherry and the drawbore pins are white oak. Everything else is southern yellow pine.

Thanks for all the kind words. Here are pictures of the patched over-sized leg holdfast holes, and the patch of the bad cut in the bottom of the rear leg. I also burned the year into the back of the...

I built an Anarchist's Workbench pretty much by the book. I kept careful track of all my time doing actual work on it, which did not include time to pickup materials. It took me 130 hours over six...