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Raw Blame History

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
Grammercy holdfasts

Construction

Preparing Stock

Glueing 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

Finishing

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