Workbench!
Workbench 01
Originally uploaded by alexhauglandWell, just in time for doing woodworking at Egil's, I've just about finished a periodoid workbench! The design is my own, more or less, borrowing heavily from an range of sources including the earliest workbench I can find with images of screw vises (early 16th century German). but also drawing from Diederot's Encyclopedie and Roubo's L'arte du le Menuisier (both early 18th century French texts).
The bench is entirely made of European Beech, with a twin screw vise on the front with wooden screws. I still need to plane the top smooth and do some cleanup of surfaces. There are no metal fasteners at all, relying instead on mortise and tenons, dovetails, and wooden pegs to hold it all together. I still need to drill holes for holdfasts and plane the top flat, plane off sawmarks, etc. I'm also debating putting a wagon vise on the bench as there was one on the 16h century workbench. It's very doable as an afterthought, though so I won't do that by Egil's.