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 More Workbenches

Another rescued lathe stand.

This steel construction makes a rigid scaffold on which to mount a work top.
The surface is an oregon timber beam removed from a house during renovation. There are splits and twists, but to remove them would have lost 20mm in thickness and 70mm in width.  After judicious machining, the bench was the perfect thickness to fit the vice. Such a heavy block of wood gives the bench ample inertia, a reward for leaving some of the warp behind.

This vice was found in a second hand shop. It is a legendary Australian made Dawn.

After many decades, it is still functioning as new!

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