The Workbench
“Gotta Have a Place to Work”
What can you use as a workbench? Any table or flat service.
It doesn’t have to be anything fancy to start. It just needs to be:
• Big enough.
• Stable enough.
• Durable enough.
• And doesn’t move.
It could be a picnic table, the kitchen table, something that you buy at a thrift store, or build with construction lumber. Whatever gets you started working. I’ve built a few of them over the years with none being the same, adapting them to the type of woodworking I was doing.
Christopher Schwarz wrote a fantastic book titled ‘Anarchist Workbench’ and offers the PDF file for free. But he’ll also be the first to tell you that a workbench doesn’t need to be anything fancy, it just has to work.
Let’s look at a few things …
And some more…
And some more…
And one more.
Below the paywall is the PDF chapter of the workbook that I’m creating. I’m hoping to have the workbook out by March. As we’ve discussed, videos and some description here in the blog with a PDF upload and/or the workbook for a physical handout for students to follow along with.
