Saturday, March 10, 2012

The Woodworker's Slave...


...is a mighty provocative name for something that is really just a moderately nifty DIY work support, found in the 1940 January Popular Science (p189). Follow the link and scroll down a bit to see more details on how to make it. Here's a screen cap from that page:



It's a simple design, and I'm sure you've seen that kind of height adjustment before, as have I. Nothing major to comment on, I just haven't seen it on a work support before, so it caught my eye.

Plus there's the business of the name; not sure how that would go over today...