On 29 Aug 2003 at 19:42, T&J Holloway wrote:

> 	An interesting solution.  I did something similar, by adding a board 
> across the end of my bench, hanging on hanger bolts that are inserted 
> horizontally.  The board, of the same maple as the bench itself, has 
> diagonal slots by which it hangs on the bolts protruding from the end 
> of the bench, secured by wingnuts.  Its height  is thus infinitely 
> variable from even with the benchtop (ie, out of the way) to about 3/4" 
> high, at the flick of a wingnut.  Easier to use than describe.  It's 
> what I often plane against when not engaged in scrubbing or otherwise 
> rough stock dimensioning.
> 	I thought Ken Greenberg had a picture of his version of this device on 
> his website, but I can't seem to find it there now, and I don't have a 
> website of my own to refer to.

It's there, but not in an obvious place - projects other than furniture, 
which includes the bench.

http://www.calast.com/personal/ken/other.htm

It's the second project down, just below the Shaker stepstool, and 
there's a thumbnail of the stop Tom is talking about - click on it to 
make it bigger.

Unfortunately, one of the downsides of a poplar benchtop is that the 
hanger bolts used to attach this seem to not hold well at all. Any 
impact against the stop (even from positioning a board) will worsen 
the situation, and eventually you reach the "threshold of 
disengagement" and the thing falls on the floor. I have not had the 
stop attached in the new shop, but I really like the solution since I 
work with thin stock when I'm building what I want to build. (This 
hasn't got much to do with what I've built lately.)  So I'm thinking that 
some sort of threaded insert with a corresponding screw would be 
better for me. I kind of miss the little bugger :-).

-Ken

Ken Greenberg (ken@c...)
667 Brush Creek Road, Santa Rosa, CA 95404
woodworking page: http://www.calast.com/personal/ken/wood.htm