Lift off! Add Some Sidekicks for Greater Movability
…to my own workbench because I need to move it around more than previously. The question one person had asked me was whether you could put a workbench on castors…
…to my own workbench because I need to move it around more than previously. The question one person had asked me was whether you could put a workbench on castors…
…made a joint, I made a joint. He owns it now. That first encounter with wood, wood on a workbench beside a handful of hand tools changed my whole psyche…
…be amazed that a craft can be so unifying and indeed bridge building too. Think of it! Someone in Mali is building my workbench right now. Someone else in Egypt…
…of real working at the real workbench by someone who has done nothing else over 50 plus years. Their system cannot skew the plane, alter pressures, flex left and right…
…I traced my fingers over the surface it was surprisingly soft to my touch. The difference between my school workbench and this one was a century or more of use…
…tools — the store benches were always 3-4″ too low. The audience was always amazed by my workbench height but after a good explanation, they suddenly confessed that they saw…
Hey Paul, I hope you are doing well. I was responding to your blog about bench height, but I can’t reply from work, so I am doing the email instead….
…names gone. Picking the shavings up from the workbench with their names clearly marked on them and taking them home was a priceless gift I never knew would be so…
…and I never saw a workbench made from nay hardwood. Many so-called European workbenches were made from softwoods and rarely hardwoods. Longleaf Pine I have worked extensively with Longleaf…
…the workbench. I cannot imagine living as a craftsman without such memories but there you are. My workbench as a boy was rich with such memories. The smell of Russian…
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