Reply To: Height and width of workbench
Interesting read, and I had looked at the Moravian style (admittedly, after I built the bench shown). I think the ballast will help to lower the center of gravity (the vise is the heaviest part of the bench, and being where it is is not helping in that respect, but it does suit the way I work and the way my workshop is laid out) and I will also be adding a cross brace on the rhs as you look at it in the picture. It doesn’t help that the floor is not at all flat in my workshop, so I have a wedge under one leg. It is the small movements that work the wedge loose and then let the bench start to rock and walk across the floor that are the most irritating.
And yes, my planes are all sharp 🙂
