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Greene & Greene Inspired Workbench
Sep 10, 2015
Just completed my workbench, based on the Frank Klausz bench in “The Workbench Book” and after the dining room table in The Gamble House, Pasadena, California. The base is red oak with wedged and pinned mortise and tenon joinery. The top is black walnut and hard maple with dovetail joinery and an ash tool tray. Vise screws from Lee Valley.
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The design of this joint may be asthetically pretty but mechanically it's backwards. It negates the mechanical strength of a dovetail joint. The way this is built the vice will pull the joint apart when it is tightened. Instead the pins should have been on the vice beam and the tails should have been on the table skirt. Then the dovetail would serve to hold the joint together when the vice is tightened.
A beautiful bench, but I think DE_Corbin has a valid point about the layout of the dovetail joint on the face vise assembly.
At this point, it might be possible to pin the joint from below to give it additional strength. Something to consider, anyway.
In any case, I hope the bench affords you many hours of pleasurable woodworking.It is a delight to look at.
Good luck in the shop!
It appears that the vice beam has been through-bolted to negate any wracking of the joinery. Maybe this was an in-build consideration. In any case, it is a lovely thing, and I'm sure, a pleasure to work upon.
I've been using free oak wood from pallets to make some really cool projects and selling them for some extra income. I've got thousands of woodworking plans to build. Here's where I got all my wordworking plans http://tinyurl.com/ntgfwjb
This is beautiful and inspiring work.
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