 | For all the talk lately about a double screw vise, nobody recognized this as a type of bench used for cabinetmaking or marquetry. |
 | Musical instrument makers (Lutherie) use a bench that's pretty much the same as a cabinetmaker's bench but the work is overall lighter and maybe the glue pot is indicative that instruments are mostly glued together rather than joined like furniture. There is a small planing stop on the bench and of course precisely planing wood is an important part of the job. |
 | Wood engravers don't need a fancy bench - just something that will clamp the work on the surface |
 | The case maker's bench is pretty simple but also the only bench that is fitted with a screw actuated vise. |
 | This bench is shown several times in the encyclopidiea, once in a workshop illustration but twice as a detail, in the joinery section and in the cabinetmaking and marquetry section. The engravings are identical down to the placement of the wood in the holdfast, except for a detail of the size of a plane in the till under the bench. |
 | This very simple bench belongs to the chest, case, and trunk maker. The support under the table is unusual but might reflect that this seems a lighter bench than the others and the leg might help add a little stiffness to the top - maybe. I'm really just guessing |
 | The box maker's bench is the one drawn the most accurately. The top doesn't cast a shadow on the legs which shows the top is mounted flush to the legs, and we see a hook on the left which serves as a support for wood mounted in the crochet. Unlike the benches drawn in Moxon and other places the crochet on all of the benches that have them seem more like a simple stop - and the wood would be held in place by holdfasts, than a wedged clamp. Considering that the crochet dies out and disappears from benches in this, the eighteen century, the smaller crochet/stop might be an interim design. Of course it could also be just a drawing error like the shadow of the bench top shown on so many other benches. |
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only 2 right. That was a tough quiz. Lots of guessing from everyone apparently.
VERY COOL quiz though. I love anything to do with history. All the better if it's
woodworking history.
Jamie Bacon
Or where those all speciatly trades? I was under the impression that all of that fell to the carpenters to complete.
That was a tough quiz.
Al R.