How-To
Mini Workbench Makes Detail Work Easier
Raise detail work closer to eye level and make life in the shop that much easier
Oct 21, 2014
Period furniture maker Steve Latta first conceived of his “minibench” as a way to raise detail work to a more comfortable height, and to hold legs and other furniture parts for joinery cuts. Clamped atop his regular workbench, the minibench gets work closer to his eyes without having to bend over. The 42-in. long top is perfect for most furniture parts. It sports a vise on one end, and dog holes make it easy to hold parts.
In this short video, Fine Woodworking senior web producer Ed Pirnik offers a soup-to-nuts overview on the bench.
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Comments
Thanks for this. Its a great idea. to save reinventing the wheel is there a set of plans for it.....My back needs saving
Mike Hildyard
@MikHildyard, see: http://www.tauntonstore.com/miniature-bench-digital-plan-065175.html
Any idea how much that workbench weighs?
Can't view the video get this message:The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.
Brilliant! My damaged back thanks you. I'll be buying the plans today.
Problems viewing this video. A little way into it lots of the sequences were repeated and consequently the examples at the end were not shown.
Ref. my last comment, a second attempt worked ok.
Video does not load in Chrome! You have to use IE. Also, see this version. Go to page 52. Gorgeous:
http://www.mnwwg.org/docs/nwcatalogs/2017.pdf
where can I find the plans please?
Link above is fixed
Will the plans be available again?
You mean this: https://www.tauntonstore.com/miniature-bench-digital-plan-065175 ?
Cool--even has an Eclipse QR vise. This is the reason I built my bench at 40" height.
Plan is inaccessible
I recently finished building my version of this bench. I kept waiting for a project to come along that made sense for the bench and then I finally decided to just start using it on everything, and I never stopped. It makes almost every job easier. About the only time I use my regular bench is for heaving planing. I love the mini bench top bench concept. Thank you.
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