Anarchist Workbench

Book by By Christopher Schwarz

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

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

Benchtop glue up

Flatten benchtop

Legs and stretchers

Benchtop mortise

Assembly

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