JSMD

I spent the last several years building a workbench in my spare time using as a start Frank Klauz's design from an article he wrote in the July/August 1985 issue of FWW. The completed bench is even more fun to use than I thought it would be, and building it introduced me to the use of mortising chisels and Japanese handsaws for making the required massive dovetails and mortice and tenon joints. I still can't believe I actually built the thing when I look at it. These days I am drooling over several Lie-Nielsen and Veritas handplanes, and a recent addition to my wish list is one of their backsaws.