My Workbench: Langley | Home
This is my workbench, completed April 2004. The bench is 7'6" long, 2'
wide, 33 1/2" tall with an enclosed tail vise on the right side, shoulder
vise on the left side and an enclosed base for tool storage.
I decided to name the bench Langley. The size and mass of the top, along with
the bench dog holes reminded me of an aircraft carrier. Since the USS Langley
was the first American Aircraft Carrier commissioned, I thought that would be a
good name.
The top is oak that is 3 1/2" thick with some walnut and a little
cocobolo. The walnut is from my grandfather's farm, dried and planed by my
father. The cocobolo is from my friend, Scott.
I use mainly hand tools, and this bench is designed around hand tools use.
Roughly 90% of the bench construction was done with hand tools.
The base is made of southern yellow pine. Since the design is loosely based on
Shaker enclosed-base benches, I decided to paint the base with Lexington Green
milkpaint. The top is finished with boiled
linseed oil and beeswax. Thank you also to Dennis at Shaker Furniture for the gracious
use of many tools.
If you have any comments/questions, drop me a line at clif.palmberg@gmail.com
NEW: See the construction
of the bench. Construction
Details | Shoulder Vise
| Enclosed Tail Vise
NEW (Added 01-06) Base construction
details and more measurements.
NEW (Added 01-06) Construction
Photos Dump.These are all the photos I took of the bench in progress with a
small description. This is just an upload from all the files I have. The order
isn't really chronological and some of the pictures are a bit redundant.
NEW (Added 01-06) Early concept of benchtop (pdf)
NEW (Added 01-06) Calculator for
determining roughly how many palettes are needed for creating a workbench top
out of palettes. This is an excel spreadsheet.
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