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More Carver's Vises--Just In Time
We have in stock a handful of Carver's Vises, just in time for Christmas gift-giving. These are literally the last of them until we get enough demand to do another run, which may be never.This is a...
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Nails and Cracks
When Schwarz post his nail cabinet to the LAP blog a few months ago, I knew immediately I would build one. Why? I can't explain. It just struck me. It's a ridiculously easy project, so no challenge...
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Underhill Nail Cabinet and a Sneak Peek
In case anyone has noticed, its been a bit quiet around here lately. Two reasons. The holiday season is our busiest, and we've been hard at work getting our new leg vise in order. So shortly before the...
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Benchcrafted Classic Leg Vise - First Look
We've been hard at work getting the first run of our new Classic Leg Vise ready for sale. Our goal was to have loads of vises on the shelf ready to go, make a fancy announcement, throw open the gates,...
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French Schools and Shops
Our public library flooded 6 years ago. All the books were ruined. It gave those in charge a chance to rebuild a library to "21st century" standards.The result? No reference section. No microfilm. No...
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Ten Feet Of Beech
Customer benches. We love them. Especially when people put their guts into them. If the word awesome hadn't been ruined by generation X, I'd use it here. Cody, your bench is succinct.Dear Benchcrafted,...
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After a short period of being a tad low on stock, we've got a new batch of Drawsharps finished, packaged, and nearly ready to ship.We've made a couple small changes to the way customers receive their...
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A Case For The Sliding Leg Vise
We've written before about our general disdain for the sliding leg vise. In short, they offer very little added functionality, besides just plain getting in the way.But last week customer Julio Alonso...
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Excuses and Opportunities
First, the excuses. We had hoped to release the Classic Leg Vise last week. Obviously that didn't happen. We were in the middle of machining a large run of Crisscross arms when we discovered a problem....
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Classic Leg Vise Research
We spent hundreds of hours developing our Classic Leg Vise, which includes lots of time researching historic forms.Most of our research takes the form of hunting down early photographs, which appear in...
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High Vise For Sale
We have altogether too many vises lying around. Until we get a showroom, we'd feel better if these devices were making furniture in someone's shop.This high vise features suede-lined hard maple jaws, a...
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Benchcrafted In Europe
We had no idea that Germans could be so fun. But before you accuse us of uncharitable characterizations, know that we're half German. Our maternal side of the family hails from Bremen and Nienburg,...
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Drawsharp FAQ
As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we changed the way we package Drawsharps. It seems some folks are having a bit of difficulty using the double stick tape to adhere their diamond pads. So we've added...
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Classic Leg Vise-Pricing and Availability
First off, an apology.We've missed our release date on this one by more than a couple months. And we know that's frustrating. We make about 99% of this vise from scratch. The rest we source from folks...
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The Temple Of Studley
If woodworking ever rose to the level of religion, there would be mini-versions of the Studley Tool Chest hanging behind the cash register of every ethnic grocery store this side of the Meditteranean.I...
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Vise hardware outside the USA - another new dealer and future plans
We are happy to announce that we now have a UK dealer for our vise hardware. For many of you who send us so many emails asking for shipping quotes from overseas, this will come as welcome news....
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May 2015 - Start Planning Now
We've been itching to write this blog post for quite a while now.Handworks: Woodworking Tools and Traditions will happen again on May 15-16 2015 in Amana, Iowa.It's no secret at this point that we got...
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Classic Leg Vise - Available Now
The Classic Leg Vise is now available to purchase on our store page. The web page for the Classic is here.Thanks!
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Now that we're shipping Classic Leg Vises we thought we'd post this video on how to assemble them. The process is also described in the instructions, available on our downloads page.Sometimes we get...
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