Woe be it to the Double-Wide Workbench
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Perhaps it's the American love for excess. But no matter how many examples I cite or pleas I make, most beginning woodworkers seek to build workbenches that are entirely too wide. Most historical workbenches are 18 to 22 wide - and they are that wide for functional reasons that I'll explain in a minute. And yet, sawyers I know who cut slabs for benches are regularly asked for 32-wide slabs […]The post Woe be it to the Double-Wide Workbench appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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