[TheForge] Benches

[Bruce Freeman]

Well, pants catch fire more easily than wood benches!
Partly it depends what sort of work you're doing.  If you never make
anything of heavier than 1/4" square rod, then a wood bench is fine.
If you're working with 2" square Damascus billets, then maybe not.
Still, it's pretty easy to extinguish a fire in a heavy piece of wood
-- if you don't let it go too long!  Messes up the bench, though.  A
wood bench with a heavy sheet-metal top seems a good compromise.

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:38 PM, ries <ries at riesniemi.com> wrote:
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> Hmm- I could not imagine having wooden benches in my metal shop.
> I catch my pants on fire often enough that a wood would be a goner pretty quickly.
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> My two main work benches are 1/2" plate tops, on steel legs, one is 36" x 96", the other is 24" x 96".
> These are for welding, layout, grinding, and similar spark producing activities.
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> I dont put vises on benches, though.
> My vises are on posts, freestanding with walkaround space on all sides, and bolted down to the concrete floor.
> Much handier for big stuff.
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> Ries Niemi
> Industrial Artist
> http://www.riesniemi.com/
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Bruce
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