Comments

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   GEide | Jul 14, 2010 06:59pm | #1

   Wow, you obviously put a lot of effort into those projects. But woah... open toes in the woodshop! :)

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   SouthernILWoodworker | Jul 21, 2010 02:24am | #2

   Why would you choose purple heart for a work bench?

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   kerfwerks | Jul 21, 2010 02:24pm | #3

   Dean2 , absolutely beautiful bench. How often did you have to resharpen during it's construction? Incidently,I have a glass-blowing chum who works yearound in Birkenstocks!

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   Dean2 | Jul 22, 2010 01:18am | #4

   My pruple heart workbench. I chose the purple heart because of its weight, availability in large sizes and the fact that here in Grenada it is inexpensive and we don't have ash or maple or the other more common woods for benches. The brown color wood is Kabukali, also from South America and another heavy hardwood. It is hard on the cutting edges. You just never set the sharpening gear aside with this stuff. The high silica in the wood is murder on the edges. Oh, for GEide, sorry about the sandles in the workshop but here in the islands we do most everything either barefoot or in sandles. I do put on closed top shoes when I'm handling the full rough planks and logs.
   Presently I have about 1500 bd ft of local cuban mahagony sticked and air drying. We don't have any kilns here so I have to have enough lumber on hand to be able to let it dry for a year at least before I work with it.

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   PeteDeSimas | Feb 04, 2011 05:21pm | #5

   Absolutely a beautiful work bench you have there. I wish Purple Heart was available here in the USA at a price that I could make one like it.

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   Adam757 | Mar 26, 2011 07:22pm | #6

   Awesome workbench! I have always like to incorperate purpleheart in my pieces when I think it will look good. Too bad it costs so much here in the states.