No termite damage that I can see. Overall, it appears to be pretty
solid. The legs are traditional trestle design made with approx. 3"
square stock and attached to the cross beams with bolts screwed into a
metal piece that is inset into the cross beam. The top is about 2"
thick with a tool tray recessed on one side. It has a very heavy side
vise on the left front (at least 20 lbs.) and an even heavier end
vise on the right side with square bench dog holes down the front.
Overall size is about 60"X28". The end caps are about 4x3" and have
two metal bolts going into the bench top. It may be made to decimal
measurements because nothing came out exact.

My concern is taking it apart and doing more damage than I can repair.
Just wondering if others had done this and what success they have had.

Thanks for your help.

Gary

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 04:36:04 +0100, Andy Dingley
wrote:

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 02:07:06 GMT, wrote:

Any thoughts?

No. We need pictures.

I'm sure it'll be worth having though. I've not yet seen an old bench
that wasn't worth having, so long as it was vaguely well made in the
first place and hasn;t been attacked by termites in the meantime.

How is it fastened together ? Last old bench I restored took a lot
of effort to pull its rusted-in woodscrews, but then I could replace
most of them with barrel bolts and I made it easily knock-downable for
future removals.