A Better Split-Top Sawbench SketchUp

10/11/2013

The other day I received a very pleasant surprise in my inbox. An email from Matt in California:

Hi Bill. Just wanted to send a thank you for doing some of the videos and teaching that you do. Your saw bench design made sense to me, so I made my own and thought I'd send you a picture or two. I used wood that I saved from going to a landfill - an old bed frame. This is the first project I've done with only hand tools. Also the first dovetails that I've ever included in a project. I took my time with them and they are not perfect by any means, but they are not that bad, either. I learned a lot and the bench is solid as a rock.

I recently lost my shop (mostly power tools - all in storage right now), so I've set up a small "shop" and am trying to get more into hand tools. The saw bench project was a great one to learn on.

As a "thank you", I'm including my own Sketchup model, drawn in the Joe Zeh (http://www.srww.com/index.htm) method. (Joe has a series of videos where he teaches Sketchup - great stuff.) If I remember correctly, you had a Sketchup model of the bench. I hope this model is useful to you. I'm definitely not a Sketchup expert, but it's the least I could do. My model probably has some dimensions a little different from yours, but people get the idea.

I have to give a big thank you to Matt. I really enjoy getting emails like this. This is exactly why I do what I do. I like sharing information and sharing my time in the shop with others. Because woodworking is usually something done alone, the online community is a great way to share with each other.

Here are a couple photos of Matt's bench that he built. Looks great and I am sure it works great too.

And this is the best part. Matt took my very simple and feeble attempt at SketchUp and turned it into a true SketchUp model of the Split-Top Sawbench. And you can download it HERE.

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Again, thanks Matt for sharing and for the awesome SketchUp.

2 Comments

justin bonnell link

10/11/2013 03:30:57 pm

Good deal, once I am able to bring this up on my laptop I will have to look

Stan P

10/12/2013 09:03:43 am

The clock is looking really good. I love playing cards and what was left of my old business cards, they make great shims when you need to make small adjustments. And Matt's saw bench looks good also. Joe Zeh's SketchUp tutorials has been a great help to me in learning to use it as was Jay Bates tutorials at http://woodworkingwithsketchup.com/. Can't wait to see more. Keep up the great posts.

A Better Split-Top Sawbench SketchUp

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