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An Update for 2017
Last year was incredibly busy here at Benchcrafted. We designed and released several new things. The Classic Workbench Plans, the Hi Vise, the Planing Stop and we made good progress on the new "bench...
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Lead times, Crubber and dealers
First lead times. Many of you may notice that in the past we have posted individual lead times for most of our products, especially vise products. A short while back we changed this to nearly...
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Build A Bench with Jeff Miller this April
If you'd like to spend a couple weekends building a Roubo-style bench with Jeff Miller, here's your chance.Over two weekends (March 31-April 2, and April 7-9) Jeff is offering the class at his shop in...
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The Benchcrafted Swing Away Seat
After over a year of development, we're excited to announce pricing and availability of our Swing Away Seat!But first a few words about this product in case some of you are wondering what road we're...
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Crisscross Solo Blems
Just a heads up in case you're in the market for a Crisscross Solo and you're coming to Handworks.We'll have a few blems available at the event for a discount price of $79. We usually don't have to...
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Miter Jack Kits: Metal Bits Now Available
UPDATE April 10 2017.Nick at Lake Erie is taking pre-orders for another small run of wooden bits. We've got a handful of the metal bits left from the first run. You can order the metal bits from us...
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Handworks........is the Midwest just too far or remote?
Handworks is now just 2 weeks away. This will be the third bi-annual event and as we've said many a time before, you never know when there will be another. Though we've followed the bi-annual pattern...
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Win a Hayward Bench at Handworks, But Only If You're Short
We wanted to do something special for Handworks 2017, so here's what we came up with. A bench for kids!Vol. 4 of "The Woodworker" features a basic bench as its first article. We had three planks of...
View ArticleRoy Underhill at Handworks 2017--The Video
Here's Roy's presentation from Handworks 2017.
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Now Available To Order: The Benchcrafted Swing Away Seat
After over a year of development, we're excited to announce our Swing Away Seat is available to order. To read more about the development of the seat, read this.The Swing Away Seat is cast in gray iron...
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For Sale: Fresh Classic Workbench
We have for sale, for immediate delivery or pickup, a freshly-built-to-spec example of our Classic Workbench. Made of hard rock maple (rock on!) it's outfitted with our Classic Leg Vise, Planing Stop,...
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New Mag-Bloks
A week of new stuff in our Store page.Brand new Mag-Bloks, Quartered White Oak, Quartered Sycamore and Spalted Maple now regular stock items.
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Swing Away Seat Instructions
We've uploaded the installation instructions for the Swing Away Seat. We offer some tips and guidelines for installation, as well as fastener recommendations (which are not included with the seat.) We...
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Lost and Found: temporary post
We're going to leave this post up for a short while only.Someone left a camcorder battery (looks to big for an SLR) on our bench at Handworks.If this is yours let us know.
View ArticleVideo: Swing Away Seat
We shot this short video to show our new Swing Away Seat in action. We have them in stock and ready to ship.Further details here.
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Unsolicited Plug
We don't really plug other products much. But on occasion we like to toot a horn about this or that.At Handworks recently we met Janet Switzer of Camp Robber canvas. We immediately liked her wares...
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There and Back Again.........Moxon wood
A few years ago we offered complete Moxon kits, the hardware and all the wood needed to make a complete vise, milled and ready to go. It wasn't fancy, but all the parts were there to spec and all the...
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Videos: Build A Bench With Our Hardware
Image courtesy of Lost Art PressWe're often asked if we'll ever offer a bench building video, or complete videos on how to install our vises. And the answer is, not anytime soon. You may be wondering...
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For Sale: Benchcrafted Classic Workbench
We have for sale a freshly-built-to-spec example of our Classic Workbench. Made entirely of hard rock maple, it's outfitted with our Classic Leg Vise w/Crisscross, Planing Stop and one Hand-forged...
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