Building On History
For the past decade I have taught the Moravian workbench class at the Woodwright’s School in Pittsboro NC. For the classes there I had been supplying and prepping the materials we used in the class; a pretty big job to be honest. I have been contacted by other woodworking schools over the years about teaching… Continue Reading →
As of early next week I think the wait list for the Moravian tail vise will be caught up at least for a little while. As of this writing I will have about a dozen extra vises if anyone would like one right away, drop me a line via the contact page here. More about… Continue Reading →
Believe it or not I have finally got another batch of tail vises close to shipping. They should be ready late this week or early next. I know some of you have been on the wait list for several months, I apologize for the long delay. There has been simply no time to devote to… Continue Reading →
I finally got this together. Below is a PDF detailing the installation of the new Benchcrafted Crisscross 14 and Classic Vise on a Moravian workbench. You will need to read and be familiar with the instructions (free here) on the Benchcrafted site for the Crisscross and vise screw. I did not repeat everything included there,… Continue Reading →
Seven months ago Jameel Abraham of Benchcrafted sent me a prototype of a shorter version of their Crisscross to see if it could work on the Moravian workbench. I retrofitted it to a bench I had; built to the dimensions given in the video and article. It fit well without any alteration to the… Continue Reading →
As some of you may have noticed, Popular Woodworking has been gradually curtailing their DVD formatted videos. The Moravian bench DVD has been unavailable for several months now. I am happy to announce that Wood and Shop has picked up production of the DVD version and it is now available in their store here. Many… Continue Reading →
I make a custom tail vise for the Moravian workbench. The reason I have not written about them, I have had a back-log of orders to work thru the past two years. These are a kind of spare time project for me and there has not been enough spare time! The batch of 25 I… Continue Reading →
This is a post I probably should have done a long time ago. Since the article and the video on building the Moravian workbench came out I have gotten a lot of emails asking questions about the design. More often than not the questions are about design changes and “what if” type things. Below are… Continue Reading →
Below are the plans and the PDF version of the original Moravian bench article that was on WK Fine Tools. In the past there have been websites selling this same plan (annoys me to no end) that they hiked from WK. The folks at Old Salem were kind enough to let me examine and measure… Continue Reading →
We have an opening in the Moravian workbench class coming up in Berea KY, later this month. The class is at The Woodworking School at Pinecroft, info is here! –Will Myers
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