Workbench for metal
This is the workbench I made for working metal. I have a big mammajamma metal vise on one end with an anvil section to beat metal on and a grinder on the other.
My motley assortment of hand tools live on shelves under the bench.
Workbench for wood
This is the woodworking bench I made from an old maple library table. I had just coated it with polyurethane so it is sitting here on blocks drying. The wood vise is a Record Vise from England which I like very much. But I also wanted a twin-screw vise.
So I made this twin screw vise using parts I cannibalized from an old Chinese workmate knockoff and metal I cut from a piece of 5” X 5” angle iron.
These are the handles I ended up using after deciding I didn’t like the blue ones I originally made from cast iron wheels.
Two of these screws were surgically removed from a Chinese copy of a Black & Decker Workmate like you see in the next photo.
This is the assembled vise ready to install under the woodworking bench. That beast is a lot heavier than it looks and it was no minor feat installing it with no help.