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link to Lee Valley bench plans

In 1983 I paid $20 for Lee Valley Modern workbench plans and found about 10 mistakes in the plans.
I bought rock hard maple for $2/ board foot.
The bench weighs about 350 pounds.

Now they only want $15 for the plans 37 years later, and probably without the mistakes.

I used SeaFin, which is Tung oils with a few extra polymers added.

After 37 years I have quit using the surface, and instead tape down 3 to 6 feet of 24" wide butcher paper.
At the end of each project I change the paper. All notes written on the paper are then gone.
Half my projects are metalworking and half are woodworking.

This is the same system your doctor uses after he gets your germ laden bottom off his exam bench.


I clamp a modified CTK rifle vise in the work bench shoulder vise.