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# An Anarchist Workbench
From the book [Anarchists Workbench](https://lostartpress.com/products/the-anarchists-workbench) by Christopher Schwarz
Inspired by the book [Anarchists Workbench](https://lostartpress.com/products/the-anarchists-workbench) by Christopher Schwarz
You can download the excellent book as a free pdf from his website.
- Build from leftover pieces of Douglas Fir and some Spruce
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Download CAD drawing: [workbench.pdf](drawing/workbench.pdf)
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110154118.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110215576.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110154118.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110215576.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
## Construction
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### Preparing Stock
Glued and doweled pieces together for the benchtop.
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240922_133627686.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240922_133627686.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
Everything handplaned straigth, flat and true.
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240922_133613964.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240922_133613964.jpg" height=auto width=75%></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" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240903_153242335.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240831_101541440.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240903_153242335.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
### Benchtop glue up
Each beam connected to the next with 5 throughhole 12mm Beech dowels.
First the centre 3 beams.
Then adding a beam on both sides at a time.
Clamping with F clamps, ratchet straps and construction screws later replaced by dowels.
Then adding a beam on both sides at a time.
So 4 glue ups.
Clamping with F-clamps, ratchet straps and construction screws later replaced by dowels.
Glued with PVA type 3.
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240922_172002980.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240927_132834207.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240928_093143253.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
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<p><img src="images/PXL_20240927_132834207.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240928_093143253.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
### Flatten benchtop with handplanes
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240928_134256824.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240928_130024104.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240929_183600145.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240928_134256824.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240928_130024104.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20240929_183600145.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
### Legs and stretchers
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241014_154601786.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241015_084727951.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241016_095014365.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241014_154601786.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241015_084727951.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241016_095014365.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
### Benchtop mortise
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241020_121359507.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241020_124457476.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241020_151738436.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241020_121359507.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241020_124457476.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241020_151738436.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
### Assembly
All mortise and tenon joints glued with PVA and drawbored with 12mm Beech dowels.
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" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241025_134323129.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241025_183551912.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241025_183613050.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241018_173745496.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241025_134323129.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241025_183551912.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241025_183613050.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
### Legvise
Jaw lined with leather, glued with contact cement.
Handle made of Ash broomstick, sanded Beech knobs on the drillpress.
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241011_150904137.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241111_105849679.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110244935.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
Handle made of Ash broomstick. Holesawed beech knobs and sanded them on the drillpress.
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241011_150904137.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241111_105849679.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110244935.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
### Finishing
Some gaps en tears filled with epoxy.
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1/3 Boiled linseed oil
1/3 Spar varnish (bootlak)
1/3 White spirit (terpentine)
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241118_091743242.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241118_091629211.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241118_091649520.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241118_091743242.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241118_091629211.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241118_091649520.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
### Accesories
Clamps and benchdogs, 19mm dogholes, Gramercy holdfasts
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110228591.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110228591.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>
Pop up morticed planing stop from Ebay.
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110258859.jpg" height=auto width=80%></P>
<p><img src="images/PXL_20241123_110258859.jpg" height=auto width=75%></P>