Anarchist Workbench

Book by By Christopher Schwarz

• Build from leftover Douglas Fir
• LxBxH 175x62*90 cm
• Weight aprox 90 kg
• Repurposed a very old beech legvise
• Grammercy holdfasts

CAD drawing

Construction

Preparing Stock

Glueing pieces together for the benchtop

Handplaned everything straight, flat and true

Replacing broken Stanley Nr 5 Handle

Made new handles from meranti hardwood

Gluing Benchtop

Flatten Benchtop

Legs and Stretchers

Mortice benchtop

Assembly

Legvise

Finishing

Homemade Danish Oil
2 Coats Applied with rags

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

Accesories

Clamps and benchdogs Popup morticed planestop Grammercy holdfasts