Others suggested that the joinery for the tail vise was too complex, and some noted that the hardware Frid used is no longer available. Some folks complained about the relatively short length, which was designed for a modest cabinetmaker in a classroom setting, and the fact that larger folks aggressively planing could potentially move the middle-weight bench around if it wasn’t bolted to the floor. My formal training at the North Bennet Street School was on a German workbench in a classroom setting, so when it came time to build my own workbench, I was inspired by Frid’s bench – but I also listened to the criticisms. Thankfully we’ve had a resurgence in traditional woodworking and have a much wider variety of tools, hardware and literature, making today one of the best times to be a woodworker since World War II. Almost 70 years later, things are not much better on the retail front, with the majority of mass-produced benches lacking in heft, design and quality. His solution was to design and build a bench similar to the one he was trained on.
When Tage Frid wrote about workbenches in the third volume of his iconic “Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking” (Taunton) he described a state of time (1948) wherein a good workbench could not be obtained in this country.
All of those forces are still present in our modern world, where we want to conserve natural resources, mix old and new techniques and tooling and build something that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing. This newer style of bench made use of a changing tool landscape and scarcity of wood, and often required a higher level of skill and/or mechanization to produce. Much as how Roubo and Nicholson benches have re-surfaced in recent years and have their merits – they were products of their times, the needs of the craftsman and the availability of wood and hardware – so too has the Scandinavian style of workbench, most popular in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The trick is finding the workbench that hits all the right notes for how you work so you can go on to create your own opus. Some benches in this style are masterworks and some are poor approximations of an archetypical form. A few are classics and others are the flavor of the month. These iconic benches have never left the scene. S candinavian- or Continental-style workbenches are the vinyl LP records of the woodworking world.
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Modern hardware and techniques update this Tage Frid-inspired bench.
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