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7797 paul swets <pswets@i...> 1996‑10‑14 Re: Quick Bio and Question
On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Jerry Davis helpfully wrote:

> In one of last year's episodes of the WWS Roy makes a portable bench out
> of two inch rough sawn wood.  The leg assemblies are attached to the top
> with hinges.  Carriage bolts secure the legs to braces running  from the
> center of the bench top to the bottom leg stretchers.  Someone posted
> that he has a new book due out and that this project was included.
> 
> I've seen this same design in another reference recently, but can't
> recall where it was.

I have not seen Roy build it, but the description sounds like a bench in 
_The Practical Woodworker_, B.E. Jones, ed.  On pages 7-9 he describes a 
portable bench such as the one above, and he includes two line drawings 
and several dimension sketches.  

Paul, 
  who is hoping not to start another B.E. Jones buying frenzy ... or is he?



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