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	BOOK: Workbenches Item No. #Z1981 Retail: $29.99 Your price: $19.79 You save: $10.20 (34%) Quantity:   Every workbench should allow the woodworker to easily work the edges, faces and ends of boards, however most benches built during the last 100 years fail on at least one of these tasks. Workbenches is the only book that shows the reader how to design and build a good workbench and most ...
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"Workbenches"	Rating:
Posted By:  Gary Kvasnicka	Date Posted:  2009-05-11 19:22:27
Comments:  Well written.
"History and philosophy"	Rating:
Posted By:  Greg Unger	Date Posted:  2009-05-12 10:45:50
Comments:  If you want the 'why reinvent the wheel' history, this could be for you. If you like to presume the way of thinking behind each design, Schwarz'z explanation is clear and instructive. I love it. If you are the follow the plans type, there are only two complete plans here. And you would be short changing yourself of the little gems underlying design principles of workbenches. But maybe that is just my philosophy...or my therapy!
"Thorough and well thought out"	Rating:
Posted By:  Phil	Date Posted:  2009-07-06 01:50:16
Comments:  Chris asks the basic questions like what is a workbench for and therefore, how should it be made. He has done both the homework on how people have made workbenches and he has made the best parts of the designs to witness how they function. Excellent read and great information on building and using workbenches.
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Posted By:  Charles Frankenhoff	Date Posted:  2010-02-08 22:38:35
Comments:  Superb book, everyone should own it. Its not flawless, but then nothing is. It is probably the best book related to woodworking I have read, and pretty much at the top of books for every field, not just woodworking. The one thing I don't understand after reading this is why anyone would build a bench that does not apply these principles. Yet they do. Its just weird