Anarchist Workbench

From the book [Anarchists Workbench] (https://lostartpress.com/products/the-anarchists-workbench) by 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
• Weight aprox 90 kg
• Repurposed inherited very old beech legvise, steel and cast iron spindle
• Gramercy holdfasts
• Pop up mortised planing stop (ebay)

CAD drawing

Construction

Preparing Stock

Glued pieces together for the benchtop

Everything handplaned straigth, flat and true

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 through 12mm beech dowels
Glued with PVA type 3

Flatten benchtop

Legs and stretchers

Benchtop mortise

Assembly

All mortise and tenon joints glued with PVA and drawbored with 12mm beech dowels

Legvise

Jaw lined with leather, glued with contact cement

Finishing

Some gaps en tears filled with epoxy

Finished with homemade Danish Oil
2 Coats applied with cotton rags

1/3 Boiled linseed oil
1/3 Spar varnish (bootlak)
1/3 White spirit (terpentine)

Accesories

Clamps and benchdogs

Pop up morticed plane stop