[TheForge] Benches

[ries]

1/4" square?
I am too old to even be able to SEE 1/4" square anymore.

Currently I am building an archway that is about 14' tall and 14' wide, 
a bench that is 12' long and 4' tall, and I have been forging a bunch of 1 1/2" round stainless bar.

Big things, that get pretty hot.

ries


On Jul 28, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:

Wooden pants?

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> 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:
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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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