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   vbwoodworks | Jan 11, 2006 04:53pm | #1

   I believe that it was in one of the last one or two issues.

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   Gene | Jan 11, 2006 07:10pm | #2

   It was in the Tools and Shops issue. Here's a link to the "preview" page, with some pictures.http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/pages/fw_181_054.asp

   Edited 1/11/2006 11:10 am ET by Gene

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   tommyp | Jan 11, 2006 07:29pm | #3

   thank you for your support

    

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   lumberjacksson | Jan 11, 2006 11:51pm | #4

   Isn't that a contradiction? A workbench with plywood legs in a magazine titled "Fine Wood Working"? Nice idea for a bench though, if you choose to go that route ;)

   Andy

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   eddiefromAustralia | Jan 12, 2006 02:52am | #5

   Not really from where I stand, LumberjacksSon. 

   A bench is a means to an end - but, having said that, I came across some old hardwood that was cut from virgin forest and made a bench out of that about 2 years ago - replaced the rickety old thing I used to work on.

   Cheers,

   eddie

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   tommyp | Jan 12, 2006 10:26pm | #6

   yes plywood in fww is a contradiction but i need one now(workbench) to do some work to get some $ to build a good one. the bench i have today is really taking a beating so i thought......

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   Buster2000 | Jan 12, 2006 10:37pm | #7

   Isn't that a contradiction? A workbench with plywood legs in a magazine titled "Fine Wood Working"?

   I don't see the contradiction.  They also show how to make jigs from plywood and MDF...  It's all just tools to help you actually do 'Fine Woodworking'.

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   woodlark | Jan 13, 2006 12:48am | #8

   Seems to me that debates over workbenches are religious in nature.  My last bench consisted of a salvaged solid-core door, topped with scrap cherry flooring strips, sitting on 4x4 legs with 2x4 stretchers.  I screwed the thing together in a couple of hours.  It cost almost nothing, was rock solid, and dead flat.  I never hesitated to drill holes for dogs and stops.  I think of the workbench in the same way that I think of jigs and extension tables.  I prefer to save time and materials for furniture.  However, I appreciate a fine hardwood bench with joinery, and think its great that some put such care into the beauty of their shop.  FWW seems to be atheistic on this issue, covering workbenches built only for function, as well as workbenches that are beautiful.  Fine with me as long as they don't start including furniture built with bcx :)

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   lumberjacksson | Jan 13, 2006 12:48am | #9

   Good point, the bench is just a large jig really. Would you want to see a plywood bench in a different magazine though, and a more challenging bench design in FWW?

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   Buster2000 | Jan 13, 2006 02:39am | #10

   Would you want to see a plywood bench in a different magazine though, and a more challenging bench design in FW?

   I think both have their place in the magazine.  But I get what you are saying.  I don't really want to see the magazine devote entire sections to this type of thing, but the occasional relevant article is cool.

   I actually found the article pretty interesting.  I was looking for a cheap bench design to use as an outfeed for my table saw, and this really seems to fit my needs.

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   tommyp | Jan 13, 2006 09:21pm | #11

   thats the reason why it stuck in my mind cheap and i would also use it as an outfeed table, like a lot of people my shop is a garage so everything must be put away everynite to get the car in

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   Buster2000 | Jan 14, 2006 01:47am | #12

   My shop is in a small two car garage (i.e. barely enough room for two cars).  When I got my table saw it became aparent that we would not be able to fit two cars AND tools in there.

   In the end I set up the shop on one half, and the other is open to fit one of the vehicles in.  The shop portion has to be somewhat mobile still.

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   wrudiger | Jan 14, 2006 07:36am | #13

   A workbench with plywood legs in a magazine titled "Fine Wood Working"?

   One of the more over-the-top workbenches in Landis' Workbench Book is Jim Mattson's plywood scrap glue-up (p. 97, 108).  The thing is a multi-functional masterpiece.  Art it's not, but what a tool!

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   philjohnwilliams | Jan 14, 2006 08:16am | #14

   while i agree that the plywood seemed a little out of what we are used to seeing in FWW, all of my workbenches in my shop are made from 3/4mdf - legs aprons and tops - and i wouldn't trade them for anything. doesn't matter what you build them from, so long as they work.