Crafts & Woodworking
The Workbench Design Book
Christopher Schwarz
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Schwarz surveys centuries of workbench designs to show what a bench actually needs to do — and how to choose or build one that does it.
A survey of historical and modern workbench designs, explaining the functional requirements (holding work securely for hand-tool operations) that should drive bench design choices.
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