I don't post often, but thought I would share my latest. I thought about posting as I went along, but decided to wait until the end and show everything at once. This project took 7 months to build start to finish not including research. I studied the numerous magazine articles, The Workbench Book by Landis, and Workbench by Schwarz. I guess it took me about 2 months of research and another month of solid modeling on the computer. I decided to build a Klausz styled workbench. Much of the dimensions are the same, but I did make it longer and thicker by a little. So here we go...
The original solid model. I used SolidWorks...
Next up was finding wood for the base. My dad help me locate some old white oak bridge timbers that were cut down about 40 years ago and have been air drying under tin since...
Milling this into the base was no easy task. Even though I had the tools to do it, I've never worked with large pieces like this. I found out the hard way that your jointer and other tools better be tuned up and ready to go...
All the mortices were blind and cut with a drill press and chiseled square...
All the mortices and tenons on the top were wedged...
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