Antique Lefty Workbench in the Wild
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 Until yesterday, I'd not seen a left-handed antique workbench in the wild. While I'm sure there are some out there, the historical record suggests that left-handed woodworkers usually made do with right-handed benches and learned to plane with their dominant hand on the toe of a handplane. While poking around Bloodline Merchants, a delightful import business in Cincinnati, we stumbled on this bench which, like my bench in my shop, […]The post Antique Lefty Workbench in the Wild appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Early English Manual Training Workbench
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 While at Bloodline Merchants we also investigated this English workbench, which is almost certainly an early manual training bench. The face vise is a Parkinsons Perfect Vise (and yes, it is spelled vise not vice on the casting). Parkinsons were made in the 1880s and this example features early metal screw threads that are not the familiar Acme thread we use today. The vise is a quick-release model and opens […]The post Early English Manual Training Workbench appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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