The Workbench book was 40 years ago, to me. That's
when it was being written and I met Landis.
> So wait a minute, wait a minute here. You can't just drop a phrase like
> that and leave it, I don't care whose birthday it is. We have pictures, so
> it did happen, but tell us how!
OK I know I have told the story before, but here goes.
Around about 78 I had a thought. How come nobody ever combined a
sawhorse, workbench and toolbox into one?
The capability (vise n dogs) of a workbench in smaller scale and all
you need is another regular sawhorse to go with?
At the time I was doing light construction and furniture refinishing
work in my little town, and I needed something to take on the road.
One day I made a crude drawing and sent it to Fine Woodworking shop
tips. They got someone who could actually draw to redo it, and put it
in right away.
Then later they made a Shop fixtures book (or some such title)
And after that a "best of" book. They put the sawbench in all of them.
Several years went by and one day I got a call from Scott Landis. He
was doing a book and would I let him include me?
Wull sure, I sez.
He was doing a tour (Landis took most if not all of the pictures in
the book)
and where did I live? So I gave him directions and we set a date.
The morning before the agreed date, I was at the end of the valley
digging in a pre-1900 dump for old bottles, when I heard 2 quick shots.
2 shots was the family signal for get your ass home! (Cell phones
were years away.)
I jumped on my bicycle and screamed off.
It was Landis a day early. It turned out one of his other authors
wasn't so much fun to be around, so he took a chance I might be home.
We had a great day!! With so much in common and my shop full of stuff
to play with (even then I was messing around with custom and restored
tools) and good food and endless laughter, we just made a day of it.
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/sawhorse6.jpg
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/sawhorse7.jpg
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/sawhorse3.jpg
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/sawhorse4.jpg
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/sawhorse2.jpg
http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/sawhorses.htm
yours scott
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