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Marty or Steve,
I am just now assembling a basic $20 Workmate. Never had so much trouble since my Lionel train set. The instructions, written in China, are confusing at best. A friend is helping me and the local hardware store keeps coming up with usable substitutes for missing parts. (Another reason to frequent your local ever-diminishing supply of hardware stores.
I would be very interested in Marty’s additions. I spend five weeks in Maine in the Autumn (“Maine, the way life should be”) and I’d like to take the Workmate in the back of the van. Better than trying to fit a cheap clamp onto a picnic table. Direction to Marty’s entry would be appreciated.
On the topic, I assembled a Harbor Freight bench grinder stand (cheap), drilled a 3/4″ hole in the middle and mounted a couple 3/4″ boards on top, complete with hole. A Veritas carving clamp went into the hole and it is very stable. I’m going to dismount the clamp temporarily, pad another board or two on top (I left bolt holes for this) and try using it as a chopping block for smallish logs. First up is a one foot long cherry log maybe a foot wide, and a brand new froe I cheated a bt with and gave it more of an edge. We’ll see how to fasten the chunk of wood, but I want to get the bark off after a year’s aging, and see if the heartwood is usable. It if works, it beats the heck out of buying and transporting a log chopping block that weighs a good part of a hundred pounds.
http://www.harborfreight.com/universal-bench-grinder-stand-3184.html#reviews (wait for a sale)