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# Anarchist Workbench
# An Anarchist Workbench
From the book [Anarchists Workbench] (https://lostartpress.com/products/the-anarchists-workbench) by By Christopher Schwarz
From the book [Anarchists Workbench](https://lostartpress.com/products/the-anarchists-workbench) by Christopher Schwarz
You can download the book as a free pdf from his website.
- Build from leftover pieces of Douglas Fir
- LxBxH 175x62*90 cm
- LxWxH 175x62*90 cm
- Weight aprox 90 kg
- Repurposed inherited very old beech legvise, steel and cast iron spindle
- Gramercy holdfasts
- Pop up mortised planing stop (ebay)
- Glued with aprox 2.3 kg PVA type 3
[CAD drawing](drawing/workbench.pdf)
Build alsmost exclusivly with Handtools. Just used electric drill and press for holes and a cirular saw for sawing of the benchtop ends and ripping the beams lengthwise.
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110154118.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
Download [CAD drawing](drawing/workbench.pdf) PDF
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110154118.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
## Construction
### Preparing Stock
Glued pieces together for the benchtop
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240922_133627686.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p> Everything handplaned straigth, flat and true
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240922_133613964.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240922_133627686.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
Everything handplaned straigth, flat and true
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240922_133613964.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
### Replacing broken Stanley Nr 5 Handle
Made new handles from meranti hardwood, the plastic ones cracked
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240831_101541440.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240903_153242335.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240831_101541440.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240903_153242335.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
### Benchtop glue up
Each beam connected to the next with 5 through 12mm beech dowels
Each beam connected to the next with 5 throughhole 12mm beech dowels
Glued with PVA type 3
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240922_172002980.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240927_132834207.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240928_093143253.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240922_172002980.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240927_132834207.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240928_093143253.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
### Flatten benchtop
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240928_134256824.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240928_130024104.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240929_183600145.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
### Flatten benchtop with handplanes
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240928_134256824.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240928_130024104.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240929_183600145.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
### Legs and stretchers
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241014_154601786.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241015_084727951.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241016_095014365.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241014_154601786.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241015_084727951.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241016_095014365.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
### Benchtop mortise
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241020_121359507.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241020_124457476.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241020_151738436.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241020_121359507.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241020_124457476.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241020_151738436.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
### Assembly
All mortise and tenon joints glued with PVA and drawbored with 12mm beech dowels
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241018_173745496.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241025_134323129.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241025_183551912.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241025_183613050.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
My lovely partner helped with glueing and assembly because i wanted to do it quickly before the glue started curing.
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241018_173745496.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241025_134323129.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241025_183551912.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241025_183613050.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
### Legvise
Jaw lined with leather, glued with contact cement
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241011_150904137.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241111_105849679.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110244935.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
Handle made of Ash broomstick, sanded beech knobs on the drillpress
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241011_150904137.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241111_105849679.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110244935.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
### Finishing
Some gaps en tears filled with epoxy
Finished with homemade Danish Oil
2 Coats applied with cotton rags
My partner helped with the finishing
1/3 Boiled linseed oil
1/3 Spar varnish (bootlak)
1/3 White spirit (terpentine)
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241118_091743242.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241118_091629211.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241118_091649520.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241118_091743242.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241118_091629211.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241118_091649520.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
### Accesories
Clamps and benchdogs
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110228591.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
<p> Pop up morticed plane stop
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110258859.jpg" width=70% height=70%>
Clamps and benchdogs, 19mm dogholes
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110228591.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>
Pop up morticed plane stop from Ebay
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110258859.jpg" width=70% height=70%></P>