Workbench links

Quick, Cheap and Simple

• Simple
• handyman - simple
• plansnow - handyman
• wall bench
• 2x4 legs
• plan company
• minimal joints and diagonal braces
• Don Levey's tiny "Den Bench"
• Bench built around pipe clamps from a plan in Fine Woodworking #139 by Rob Stokes, and discussed on The Wreck

Strong tables with vises (Kirby-esque)

• popular woodworking $175 bench (acknowledged as a variation on Bob Key's)
• plansnow - weekend
• Wood carver
• Wood magazine
• Aviation Table
• woodcraft bolted together bases
• Woodmuse
• Conan The Librarian Left handed SYP(Pine) Bench additional text from USENET via Google
• Chris Swingley's Roubo version

Strong tables with simple end vises

• Paul Worth's old and new benches
• Stephen Andrews' Sapele masterpiece, with a Veritas twin screw end vise
• Jeff Youngstrom's Experiment

Frankly European (i.e. with a 'L' tail vise) with:

-shoulder vise

• Scott Post's Bench
• Tom Price
• Illustrated build process, by C. Alan Bierbaum
• Mark van Roojen
• Scott Murman's Borg Bench
• Tage Frid transcribed
• Charlie Belden; a fully illustrated and described design-and-build (tail vise is the twin screw Veritas)

-face vise

• Matt WoodWorth (Woodsmith #50)
• Keith Rucker - majestically complete documentation of the building process
• plansnow - european (AKA Woodsmith #50), with "travelling dog" tail vise
• Frank O Donnell (left handed bench)
• Bob Key benches (1 of each)
• Bill Claspy's variation on Bob Keys simple bench, and a successor
• Jeffy Youngstrom's variation on Bob Keys simple bench
• Cliff Edward's fairly straight make of Bob Keys simple bench
• Larry McVoy's bench
• Tom Caspar Award
• Tom Caspar in American Woodworker - torsion box and 'I' beam again (page pulled, now viewed via the Wayback machine)
• Tim Celeski: Euro, and Caspar I beam
• Tims Bench (tail vise only, power tool oriented)
• Printed plan for the "Acorn" bench
• Roger Van Maren
• Jeff Greef woodworking, with vises on a separate page.

Shaker (loosely defined by fully enclosed base)

• Bill Taggarts quick and very rigid
• Plans now "classic"
• Claude Livernoche (Woodsmith #50)
• Tail vise only?
• Bob Hamilton, transcribed from the Oak
• Bill Webber (with drive-bys in the background!)
• amateur woodworker
• delta shaker (courtesy wayback machine)
• Stan Faullin's bench follow "woodworking (left frame), then shop projects (right frame) then "workbench"
• Peter Berglund
• Clif Palmberg, as announced when he joined the Porch
• Jim Shaver hosted at Woodcentral

Collections

• Sam Allen book review
• Rick's workbench stuff
• DIEFENBACH
• Emir
• Ulmia @ fine-tools
• E.C.E. : the bestthings
• Aussie Company
• A French Bench making company
• A French Tool Site
• Hofmann Hammer (Germany)
• Benches and Components from Veritas

Fixtures, aids, and alternatives - things that aren't really workbenches

• Non-Neander bench for power tool users
• Sawing bench by Steve Splonskowski, being a version of...
• Charlie Rodgers' sawing bench
• Bench fixtures for planing
• Shooting board
• Ramped Shooting board
• Bob Key (again...)
• Really, really good tip when fitting a vise to a bench
• Building a wooden tail vise
• Work holding on a plain bench - Dean J on WoodCentral
• Amazing 3-mode vise by Paul Pedersen
• Shoulder vise held in a face vise
• Craft vise on a stick held in a face vise

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