Workbenches Revised Edition
From Design & Theory to Construction & Use
Two centuries of workbench wisdom in one book
With this book, your very first workbench will do everything you need it to do--possibly for the rest of your woodworking career.
Encompassing years of historical research and real-world trials, Christopher Schwarz boils down centuries of the history and engineering of workbenches into basic ideas that all woodworkers can use.
• Learn how to design your own world-class workbench
• Learn the fundamental rules of good workbench design that have been largely forgotten
• Learn how to build an inexpensive and practical bench that hasn't been in widespread use for over 100 years
• Learn how to properly use any workbench
In this revised and updated edition you'll find plans for five benches--two sturdy English benches and two variations on the…
Christopher Schwarz is the editor of Popular Woodworking magazine and a contributing editor to The Fine Tool Journal. He's the author of Workbenches: From Design & Theory to Construction & Use and Handplane Essentials and is the host of 6 DVDs on hand-tool usage produced by Lie-Nielsen Toolworks and many DVDs for Popular Woodworking magazine. He's taught classes on workbenches and handtools all over the world, and will appear in 2011 on the long-running PBS show The Woodwright's Shop with Roy Underhill. The Popular Woodworking magazine staff contributors are also recognized experts in their woodworking specialty areas.
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