Re: Benches and handedness


noonenparticular wrote:
> I'm in the process of building my own bench, a left-handed version of a
> scandenavian style dog-leg bench with the dog leg on the right side and the
> tail vise on the left. (pics upcoming).

I look forward to the pics - I too am a leftie.

> Anyway, the Christmas edition of the Lie-Nielsen Toolworks catalog showed up
> today (drool, drool) and when I opened it, lo and behold, a LN left-handed
> workbench on the inside cover. Being left-handed and very sensitized to the
> handedness of everyday items, I thought it was interesting that they made,
> much less showed in a mass mailing, a left handed workbench (and the
> negative wasn't reversed, because their logo is legible on the front of the
> bench).

I haven't gotten mine yet. <grumble> <Pavlovian response already
started>

> I'm not going to scrap my project in process, because I'm sure that the
> overall cost of building it will still be less than the LN bench (which
> wasn't priced in the catalog), but I thought it was interesting.

Maybe you can lift some ideas from the photo.

> rambling on a tuesday afternoon......

Rambling's good on Sundays too.

JP
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