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An Anarchist Workbench
From the book 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
- LxWxH 175x62x90 cm
- Weight aprox. 90 kg
- Repurposed inherited very old beech legvise, steel and cast iron spindle
- 19 mm dogholes and Gramercy holdfasts
- Pop up mortised planing stop (ebay)
- Glued with aprox. 2.3 kg PVA type 3
Download CAD drawing: workbench.pdf
Construction
Build alsmost exclusivly with handtools. Just used an electric drill and drillpress for the holes and a circular saw for sawing of the benchtop ends and ripping the wood lengthwise.
- Stanley nr 4 and 5
- Gyokucho Ryoba japanese pull saw
Preparing Stock
Glued pieces together for the benchtop
Replacing broken Stanley Nr 5 Handle
Made new handles from meranti hardwood, the plastic ones cracked
Benchtop glue up
Each beam connected to the next with 5 throughhole 12mm beech dowels
Glued with PVA type 3
Flatten benchtop with handplanes
Legs and stretchers
Benchtop mortise
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.
Jaw lined with leather, glued with contact cement
Handle made of Ash broomstick, sanded beech knobs on the drillpress
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)
Accesories
Clamps and benchdogs, 19mm dogholes
