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271568 | Mike Lynd | 2020‑07‑30 | Anarchist's workbench available for free download |
This link, from my email of 7th July, still works to obtain the pdf download: https://blog.lostartpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07 /AWB_Consumer_June-2020_v3.pdf">https://blog.lostartpress.com/wp- content/uploads/2020/07/AWB_Consumer_June-2020_v3.pdf best wishes, Mike |
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271570 | Kirk Eppler | 2020‑07‑30 | Re: Anarchist's workbench available for free download |
This link works for me! KE On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 12:40 PM Mike Lynd via OldTools < oldtools@s...> wrote: |
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271571 | "nichael @sover.net" <nichael@s...> | 2020‑07‑30 | Re: Anarchist's workbench available for free download |
Just used the link below to download it to my iPad. - N ---------------------------------------- From: "Kirk Eppler via OldTools" |
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271574 | Chuck Taylor | 2020‑07‑31 | Re: Anarchist's workbench available for free download |
Gentle Galoots, Mike Lynd wrote: ==== This link, from my email of 7th July, still works to obtain the pdf download: https://blog.lostartpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07 /AWB_Consumer_June-2020_v3.pdf">https://blog.lostartpress.com/wp- content/uploads/2020/07/AWB_Consumer_June-2020_v3.pdf ==== I read Chris Schwarz's latest workbench book right after Mike posted the link. (Thanks, Mike!) Maybe this is a good excuse to talk about this and Chris's other workbench books? I have read and enjoyed all 3 of Chris's workbench books in spite of the extraneous commentary about non-woodworking issues. It's refreshing to note that he has finally gotten the message that he should leave that stuff out in his future writings. There is a lot of good information about workbenches in Chris's books. I don't agree with all of his opinions, but that's to be expected. For one thing, I don't understand why he prefers a planing stop to a tail vise. Sure, you can get by without a tail vise, but why would you want to? One thing about his books that I find amusing: When it comes to selection of wood, low cost is a virtue (think Southern Yellow Pine). But when it comes to bench vise hardware, low cost is irrelevant; he recommends the expensive stuff (think Benchcrafted). The theme of the latest book seems to be that after having built umpteen workbenches and written 3 books about them, he has finally figured out how to build the ideal workbench (at least for his needs). I built the ideal workbench for my needs on the first try (not counting the one I nailed together in a hurry 40 years ago!). But I will be the first to admit that that wouldn't have happened it I hadn't first read Chris's first 2 workbench books plus Scott Landis's "The Workbench Book" and relevant sections of books by Charles Hasluck, Bernard Jones, and Roy Underhill. So thanks, Chris, for the new book and for making it freely available. Cheers, Chuck Taylor north of Seattle |
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271581 | "Adam R. Maxwell via OldTools" <oldtools@s...> | 2020‑08‑01 | Re: Anarchist's workbench available for free download |
> On Jul 30, 2020, at 19:44 , Chuck Taylor via OldTools |
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271582 | Chuck Taylor | 2020‑08‑01 | Re: Anarchist's workbench available for free download |
Adam, You have it backwards: planing stops are for those who can’t build a proper tail vise. :-) Chuck sitting on a cool island beach north of Seattle, watching the tide come in Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Saturday, August 1, 2020, 12:46 PM, Adam R. Maxwell |
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271583 | "yorkshireman@y..." <yorkshireman@y...> | 2020‑08‑02 | Re: Anarchist's workbench available for free download |
An interesting point has ariz.. planing stops versus a tail vice (vise, Paddy) One could say that the stop is just that. Planing needs the work to resist the force of the blade slicing into it, and only unidirectionally. A vice clamps the work by its ends, so will resist in both directions. But, if overtight, can bow the work. At the extreme, say a 2mm divider in a writing slope drawer, there is a problem of distorting the work. larger material not so of course, but there is a grey area for, say, a window glazing bar, where the vice action can distort the work. Of course, there is the case of the 2mm section being so thin that the plane action itself can cause the material between the blade and the stop to ripple, and even form a wave and smash. No real cure here, other than taking a No7 or No8 (Try planes, Jeff) that have a front section long enough to cover your work and stop it lifting. The again, the real answer is that you need both. and with all our discussion on dog holes, there surely isn’t anyone here without the set up to drop a dog into a suitable opening and use that? Which leads me to ask if anyone here has used the fancy YB dog hole system being touted by Peter Parfitt of ‘Parf dogs’ and the Parf stick layout system? I happened to have watched a video about it, and I admit to being impressed. It codifies our old fashioned system of dog holes into a high tech bench top of stable material with an engineering tolerance layout of 20mm holes, then various jigs for the holes. The cunning thing is the application of the layout tools to produce a grid of holes so accurately placed that they can sell drop over stops that fit over dogs placed anywhere - up, across, or diagonally. I’ll save you searching - look at the stuff surrounding here.. Scott - sit down first - the prices are eye-watering. I was in the workshop. I looked at my bench with the square holes all laid out on a grid - looked at this fancy schmancy worktop with holes all laid out on a grid, and decided I’d make up one of their cam clamps to suit my (wooden) dog system. Saved a load of money that way. But the inventor is on one of the videos, and I wish him well. https://www.axminstertools.com/ujk-technology-multifunction-workbench- frame-only-102540">https://www.axminstertools.com/ujk-technology-multifunction- workbench-frame-only-102540 <https://www.axminstertools.com/ujk- technology-multifunction-workbench-frame- only-102540">https://www.axminstertools.com/ujk-technology-multifunction- workbench-frame-only-102540> Richard Wilson Yorkshireman saving money in Northumberland |
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271584 | Tim <tpendleton@g...> | 2020‑08‑02 | Re: Anarchist's workbench available for free download |
Richard regaled us with a tale of high-tech benchtop gizmosity before gently assuaging our Galoot trepidation with assurances that he did indeed teach an old (bench) dog new tricks! Well done Richard! On Sun, Aug 2, 2020, 5:05 AM yorkshireman@y... < yorkshireman@y...> wrote: |
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271686 | scott grandstaff <scottg@s...> | 2020‑08‑28 | Re: Anarchist's workbench available for free download |
I have someone's idea of "workbench holding in a bag" from the 60's I think. It consists of pegs and cams and a clamping bar. Supposed to do everything you can think of. Apparently it didn't sell though http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/oldtools/benchclamp.JPG While you can get by with very little in bench accessories if you have to. Or add a bunch of different ones and try different things. But a genuine end vise? A pretty one of infinite power, that moves like butter and weighs as much as you do? That is limousine service. http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/bench2.jpg yours scott -- ******************************* Scott Grandstaff Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca 96039 scottg@s... http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/ http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/hpages/index.html |
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