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   BG | Feb 10, 2003 03:57am | #1

   datapip,

   Try..www.americanworkshop.org/projects...Scott Phillips has a TV show here and put up this simple but effective workbench.

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   eling98 | Feb 10, 2003 08:16am | #2

   I like the one on this web site ( http://www.terraclavis.com/bws/ ). It can be a good basic start for a workbench. I like his perspective. You'll have to do some calculating of your own but, I think it is worth it. Have fun with it!-Eric

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   BG | Feb 10, 2003 02:51pm | #3

   Datapip,

   On the link Eric provided, Rucker's workbench gets into the details also..

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   GJ131 | Feb 10, 2003 05:28pm | #4

   Try http://www.grandpasworkshop.net/workbench.html ............

   http://www.americanwoodworker.com/200110/projects/workbench/main.html .........

   http://pages.friendlycity.net/~krucker/Bench/

   The first is very simple, the second more complicated and the third very complicated.

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   MPHarper | Feb 10, 2003 10:28pm | #5

   Here are some good links for workbench plans:

   http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim/woodwork/bench.html

   http://www.popularwoodworking.com/features/fea.asp?id=1069

   For more info do a google search for free woodworking plans and look through the hits.  That' s how I've found most of the free plans I have.

   Matt-

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   Azeddie | Feb 10, 2003 11:42pm | #6

   HI, Here are 2  great PDF files of  different cabinetmakers benches, one file alone is 60 pages long on how to build... great info. 

   makinsawdust

   
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   EdHarrison | Feb 13, 2003 08:38am | #7

   Wow, what a great document the longer one is. Worth the download. Thanks.

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   Thom1 | Apr 18, 2003 09:46pm | #8

   The best free source is possibly the Taunton Workbench Book, which is in every bookstore and library in the free world by now.

   I start by considering the vise and top layout I want, and then the base, and draw up plans of my own.  A bench is just a beam/slab, usualy with breadboard ends some vises, on a trestle.  These are big sticks of wood, and I usualy end up doing some redrawing just to work around my shop space, and the precise finished size of the sticks I end up building with.  If yo have the space I would go 8', anything smaller tends to end up not able to hold all the furniture you can fit in a standard houise.  If I had 10 foot ceilings, I'd have built 10'.

   Once you have decided on the items you want, the workbench book will have all the drawing details you need to execute your design.  For instance I adjusted the parts of the Franz Klaus tresle to suit my own design.  I new the sticks I had were about the same size as his, and while I could have assembled everything from my head, I used his tenon widths, and overhangs on my bench to help me quickly size parts. 

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   eddiefromaustralia | Apr 19, 2003 12:53am | #9

   Hi there,

   Here is a compilation of all known internet sites on building benches.

   http://www.geocities.com/plybench/bench.html