In Louie’s shop, this old carpenter’s bench from a high school woodshop. There’s another vice kitty corner on the other side. It’s made to be utilized by two students. There’s a swing-out stool on each side; you can just see the hinge on the right leg here. I’d love to find something like this, but can’t locate anything either on eBay or craigslist.
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
In Louie’s shop, this old carpenter’s bench from a high school woodshop. There’s another vice kitty corner on the other side. It’s made to be utilized by two students. There’s a swing-out stool on each side; you can just see the hinge on the right leg here. I’d love to find something like this, but can’t locate anything either on eBay or craigslist.
Lloyd-
This fella has a great write-up about building your own bench using kiln-dried material from the local yard. He claims the bench itself costs around $65.
There is a ton of information out there about building your own work bench. Finding an old one in good shape? Not so much.
Best of luck!
http://paulsellers.com/series/building-a-workbench/
This is another great resource — very insightful, very good observations about what makes a work bench work.
http://www.thewoodwhisperer.com/articles/workbenches-by-chris-schwarz-book-review/
thanks for this too.
bob
Thanks you guys. Book looks great, just ordered it. The single page, "10 Rules For Building Workbenches" is worth the price of the book in itself. (Can see it on Amazon "Look Inside Book.")
Now there is a workbench that looks as though it gets some use – so unlike those pristine Architectural Digest-type workshops that look as though they haven't experienced a gram a sawdust since the turn of the millennium.
Antique dealers pounce on this kind of work furniture. Yuppies are nuts of them and certainly would use this bench to decorate their kitchen.
got to liking the looks of that bench, spent a time looking for similar..came accross the following.. just looked around a bit, but nice stuff..
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dHut1SSGIfU/Tpy78e7T2jI/AAAAAAAAFtA/-ZkoMKzAkkE/s1600/WIA.Benches.3.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xq8YuMj23uQ/Tpy75LPLmUI/AAAAAAAAFs4/71mCgq-nMLs/s1600/WIA.Benches.2.jpg
Vintage Woodworking Videos
http://villagecarpenterlinks.blogspot.ca/2009/03/vintage-woodworking-videos.html
Vintage Blogs
http://villagecarpenterlinks.blogspot.ca/2009/02/blogshandtools-only.html
More
http://villagecarpenterlinks.blogspot.ca/
ah…one more..some nice ones here too…
http://pinterest.com/rmhopwood/workbench/
This is exactly the kind of bench we had in shop class when I was in school. I was standing at one in November 1963 when shop instructor Mr. Zinsky came in and with worried expression told us that the President had been assasinated. Nothing fancy or Euro about these, but a lot of people learned to appreciate tools at them. Interesting tool bag on the corner.
Anonymous, Great links! Thanks!