Workshop Furniture
Vice Mount Revisited
In the old Workshopshed, I made some bars to screw to the underside of the bench to mount the bench vice to a good solid clamping point. Unfortunately, when I moved, I forgot to unscrew these and since I’ve moved
Posted in: Workshop Furniture
Materials: Mild Steel
Tags: vice
Building a workbench
I’d been discussing workbenches with my Dad who’s just setting up a new workshop after a house move so I asked Brandon from Solid Wood Designs in New Zealand what he thought the basic fundamentals were for creating a workbench.
Posted in: Guest, Woodworking, Workshop Furniture
Tags: Bench, solidwooddesigns
Bench modification
Thanks to some good friends I now have a large ex-BBC filing cabinet. This has 4 large drawers and is 1m wide by 1.2m tall. There’s a couple of concrete blocks in the bottom to stop it falling over when
Posted in: Woodworking, Workshop Furniture
Tags: dowel
Project Links
A collection of projects to make with the lathe or mill Duncan Munro’s Metal Pages has a variety of projects from furnaces to workshop furniture to advanced projects such as a gear hobber or a dividing head. Astronomer and model
Posted in: Lathe, Projects, Workshop Furniture
Tags: adjustment, Tools
New Shelf
So that that my furnace bits and pieces did not have to sit on the floor I decided to build a simple metal shelf. I bought some angle iron (15x20x1mm) to form two of the sides. I also used an
Posted in: Workshop Furniture
Tags: Brazing, Steel, Storage
Drawer for lathe tools
This seemingly simply project has taken nearly 5 months to complete. Part of the reason is that the bench did not have any back legs. I’d simply let the bench top be supported on the original shelves with the two
Posted in: Storage, Workshop Furniture
Tags: Tools
Building a Drill Drawer
Back in March I built a bench/cupboard to support my pillar drill. This has been working fine but my selection of drills keeps getting covered in swarf, oil, saw dust or whatever I happen to be working on. For this
Posted in: Storage, Woodworking, Workshop Furniture
Tags: Drawer, Drill Bench, Routing
Bench work in progress pictures
The bench framework and top assembled, need to attach the edging and sanddown and paint my screw fixing holes. Apart from one joint where the 2 screws clashed in the middle the construction went fine. The shelving that forms the
Posted in: Woodworking, Workshop Furniture
Tags: Workbench
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
