23 minutes ago, Cal said:

What ya working on there John, those look to be some pretty wide boards there...

Looks like a good start on another Maloof rocker.

@Cal and @Gene Howe, it's just a quick down and dirty pine chest for our girls room, to fit into a wall cubby, pine boards glued together, butt jointed and screwed at the corners, countersunk with wood plugs to hide the screws, it'll have a lid with sliding top tray, and the girls are going to white wash it for a rustic look, and store odds n ends in it.

@John Morris, Speaking of your girls, how's your young soldier doing? In fact, how's the whole Morris clan faring? Well, I hope.

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Oohh, I like it. 

Flattening the lid.

Man I thought that was clock hands till the second look. Those are awesome hinges .

48 minutes ago, Gerald said:

Man I thought that was clock hands till the second look. Those are awesome hinges .

They are awesome Gerald, I purchased them on Ebay years ago, they are still in their department store original wrapping, like butcher paper with the store logo on it. I believe the dealer stated they were from the 40's. But reproductions of colonial hardware. The hinges are supposed to be surface mounted. Just imagine the old cabinets 60 plus years ago, pine batten and board cabinets for the kitchen, and these type of hinges for the cabinet doors. I have seen that exact style in older homes, typically all painted over.

33 minutes ago, John Morris said:

typically all painted over.

Running out of room on mine...

would have been even more, but ...

They have the tablesaw top covered....

I know, what a mess.  But I know where at least some of the stuff is.  This is the top of the saw bench I posted about awhile back.  I have the leg notches cut, along with the V notch in the end.  You can see my new router plane and shoulder plane in the foreground.  Just this one project has been an interesting journey in hand tool use.

48 minutes ago, PostalTom said:

I know, what a mess.  But I know where at least some of the stuff is.  This is the top of the saw bench I posted about awhile back.  I have the leg notches cut, along with the V notch in the end.  You can see my new router plane and shoulder plane in the foreground.  Just this one project has been an interesting journey in hand tool use.

That is one beautiful work bench Tom!

13 minutes ago, John Morris said:

That is one beautiful work bench Tom!

Thanks John.  You have seen pictures of this before.  This is the one with the vertical tool tray on the far end.  I didn't put an end vice in it, and now I wish I had.  I was following a set of plans from Woodsmith Magazine.

7 hours ago, PostalTom said:

Thanks John.  You have seen pictures of this before.  This is the one with the vertical tool tray on the far end.  I didn't put an end vice in it, and now I wish I had.  I was following a set of plans from Woodsmith Magazine.

Indeed, I have! And that sawbench, what a wonderful start on that one, gonna be nice and sturdy I can see.

Got the legs glued on to the saw bench.  Next step is to cut the joints for the short cross braces and the long brace, and get them glued on.  Then trim the legs flush with the top, and to length, and I'm done.  Then start on the second one.  I'm going to pick my lumber more carefully on the second one.  Most of my problems were trying to hand saw, ripping through a knot.  The knot said "knot through me buddy".  Lessons learned, but that is what this project is all about.  I'm using Old Brown Glue for the glue ups.  

31 minutes ago, PostalTom said:

Got the legs glued on to the saw bench.  Next step is to cut the joints for the short cross braces and the long brace, and get them glued on.  Then trim the legs flush with the top, and to length, and I'm done.  Then start on the second one.  I'm going to pick my lumber more carefully on the second one.  Most of my problems were trying to hand saw, ripping through a knot.  The knot said "knot through me buddy".  Lessons learned, but that is what this project is all about.  I'm using Old Brown Glue for the glue ups.  

COOL! When I went to Vocational School this was one of the projects we had to build. Hand tools only! Those compound angles on the legs drove me nuts!

4 hours ago, PostalTom said:

Got the legs glued on to the saw bench.  Next step is to cut the joints for the short cross braces and the long brace, and get them glued on.  Then trim the legs flush with the top, and to length, and I'm done.  Then start on the second one.  I'm going to pick my lumber more carefully on the second one.  Most of my problems were trying to hand saw, ripping through a knot.  The knot said "knot through me buddy".  Lessons learned, but that is what this project is all about.  I'm using Old Brown Glue for the glue ups.  

Tom, you are very inspiring, thanks for sharing this great project! I have always wanted to build one of these, I have the material, just got to do it. Thanks Tom!

That looks great so far Tom.  I am not familiar with this, is it simply a more useful sawhorse with the "bootjack" end, or does it have additional specific duties that it has been designed for?  Are you building this from plans, your design, or ?

@Cal, this is not my design.  I am working from a set of plans in Fine Woodworking magazine.  The concept of this saw bench is that it stands much lower than a traditional saw horse.  It is cut to fit the individual who is going to be using it, coming only up to just below the knees.  This enables the worker to put a knee on the work piece to hold it down while he or she is cutting it.  If the cut is a rip cut, you could also straddle the bench and sit on it to accomplish the same thing.  Of course, you could also clamp your work to the bench.  Lately, I have been on a quest to expand my hand tool skills, and the author of the plans for this project accomplished it using only hand tools, along with the appropriate step by step instructions and accompanying photos and diagrams.  That's why I undertook this project.  I figured it would be a good learning experience for me, and it has.  Also an expensive one.  I realize there is always more than one way to accomplish a task, but I mentally committed to using the same tools as were employed in the article.  As a result, I now own a #4 smoothing plane from Lie Nielsen, along with a router plane from the same, and a medium shoulder plane from Lee Valley.  The smoothing plane was not specified in the plans, but I wanted it anyway, so this was a good excuse to buy it.  Why not?  As a further result, I now see a tool cabinet project in my future, as I don't have a place designated for these new tools, or a place for the cabinet either.  I guess I will be expanding into another part of the basement.  Sorry for the long-winded answer.  Once I get going, I sometimes don't know when to stop. 

This height is interesting. The workbenches the Romans used and some used in medieval times were about that height. They apparently worked sitting or hunched over from drawings I have seen.