In response to Dean Karavite's thread:
I started working on my first bench back in the middle of February. Here it is the middle of April, and I'm nearly done.
I started with Asa Christiana's design from finewoodworking.com, then bought and read the Sam Allen book that inspired his design. The project started out simple, but somehow became more ambitious as I went along.
I've made plenty of mistakes, and have avoided others by asking questions here. There's no doubt that I've learned a lot, and had a lot of fun.
I've been documenting my progress on Make Magazine's instructables.com:
Building a real woodworker's workbench
As you can see, I've not yet mounted my vises -- I plan on cutting the wood for the faces and plate tonight -- but aside from that it's done.
(I've not yet published the instructable web page. Nobody can see it except those I pass the link to. I figured on cleaning it up after I finish the bench. Advice on how to improve it would be welcome).
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Originally Posted by Jeff Dege
