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March 2010 Blog Archive
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Monster Bench...(Part III)
Friday, March 26th, 2010
The next phase of construction on
my new woodworking bench, fabricating the Oak top,
is now complete. For years I had been saving quite
an inventory of custom-sawed ¾", 1" & 1¼" Oak for the top
and I finally got the
opportunity to use it. I decided to make the top
approximately 3" thick and, for this bench, without
any vises of bench dogs. I say "this bench" because
in the future I will be building an even larger
bench with 2 end vises, a shoulder vise and rows of
bench dog along each side. Needless to say, I still
wanted to incorporate the traditional tool tray
along one side.
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