Wishing for workbenches

Over the last week, I've been hankering for workbenches: daydreaming about them, glancing thru my various woodworking books for diagrams of them [only during breaks in Dissertation-writing, of course!], and even buying woodworking magazines just because (well, mostly because) they had a ''how to build a workbench'' article.


One of the first orders of business, WIFMD, is to set up a section of the back yard for doing some simple woodworking. For about AU$80 (about US$55), I can get a decent-sized portable picnic gazebo with built-in bug screens (and a zipper down the side, so you can get in and out). Planning to lay out a few concrete paving stones, and set up a few saw-horses and saw benches (picture of a sawbench above, taken from a very good blog entry at http://www.woodworking-magazine.com/blog/Building+A+Sawbench.aspx). Put a simple sheet-metal shelving unit out there, to hold the stuff that people wouldn't bother to steal (jars of nails, wooden parts from works-in-progress, etc.). And use a wooden tool tote to carry the actual tools out to the work area, and bring them back in at night.

Someday... ;)


--GG