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Maybe you built a new workbench and don't know what to do with the old one.
Maybe you just don't seem to have time to get into the shop any more.
Maybe you just want to prove to your sweetheart that you can make furniture.
Bring the workbench into the living room and relabel it as a bar cart.
NY Times article shows a fine example;
From the article; Drinks? Shake, Stir, and Roll
at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/ga...tml?ref=garden
"There is a fine line between hobby and mental illness." - Dave Barry
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Yeah, see how your sweetheart feels about your furnituremaking after she walks into those vises a few times.
Take
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Vises? What vises. Those are built-in nutcrackersOriginally Posted by Take Alberts
Use the fence Luke
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Or towel holders, essential for every bar.
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That's interesting; a friend has just built a new winery and wants to use my workbench -- currently stored in his barn -- in the tasting room.
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Howl!!!!! I couldn't figure out a relatively "clean" way to say that - well done, Doug.Vises? What vises. Those are built-in nutcrackers
BTW - an easier alternative could be to leave the bench in the shop and move the bar there.
When I started woodworking, I didn't know squat. I have progressed in 30 years - now I do know squat.
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And that is why finding old workbenches is so difficult and when you find them they are so expensive.
"Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth."
I saw that picture in the paper & immediately thought....what a waste of a good workbench
Dennis
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The thought I had was similar, but was also one of those "Well, if I put a bench in the living room, I could start working in the evenings while still spending time with my wife. . ." Not that that would work. Even hand tool work gets pretty loud at times, and the shavings would be over the top for my wife.
Making furniture teaches us new ways to remove splinters.
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I've seen this quite a few times in various houses that have been 'decorated'. I can't afford to window shop in the shops they were bought from.
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They are only nutcrackers when YOU walk into them, not when SHE does.Vises? What vises. Those are built-in nutcrackers
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I'm going to start using my LN #7 to make very fine lemon shavings for my wife's lemon drop martinis. What would a good angle for my irons be? This is actaully a great idea - there are so many tools I can use to take the cork out of my scotch and getting rid of those pesky dirty glasses will be a cinch with my hammers.
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This almost falls into the same category as painting a wildlife scene on a saw. Not quite heresy, but its dangerously, close.
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block plane with toothed blade=citrus zester.
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Chris/Zach,
A coarse-cut flat microplane is hard to beat for zesting lemons.
Tom
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