01-15-2017, 10:29 PM (This post was last modified: 01-15-2017, 10:31 PM by mr_skittle.)
I teach some hand plane classes and have recently found the need to take my show on the road. After much research and many questions I've gone and built a portable workbench. Following a post on the Close Grain blog I built it out of some pine and maple that I had around. I've been playing around with it a bit since I finished it before Christmas and I'm pretty happy with the results. There are some big walnut hooks on the sides for edge planing, a few long planing stops, a doe's foot, and my very first holdfast. I had a face vice that I was considering putting on, but there just wasn't a good spot for it. I had the holdfast made by a local blacksmith. I brought the bench along to the local Forging Community's shop and watched as it was made and tried it out until we got it just right. I paid much more for it than the Gramercy ones that are so popular but the experience plus the product was worth it. Now I just need to use it and figure out it nuances.
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How do you know you're learning anything if you don't screw up once in awhile?
I hate to highjack my own thread right away but who knows why my pics are all upside down. I've tried rotating them in the folder on my computer but they post upside down no matter what.
How do you know you're learning anything if you don't screw up once in awhile?
(01-16-2017, 05:36 PM)mr_skittle Wrote: As long as they're right side up to everyone else thats what counts. If I want to see it right side up myself, I'll just go look at it in the shop.
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