Swedish Work Bench for Sale on E Bay at a Bargain price!!

I spotted this fine Swedish work bench currently for sale on E Bay. It has a very useful shoulder vice and a proper tail vice. At £250 it's an absolute bargain!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/carpenters-work-bench/123827529871?hash=item1cd4b2288f:g:JtQAAOSwumJdIc8~

Lots of Nice Planes for Sale on E Bay!

I'm selling some of my collection, this is just a few of the planes I've got for sale on E Bay at the moment. Most are 99p start and I post worldwide.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/153538939255

Angled Dovetail Box

Kevin from New York sent me these pictures of a nice little box he made for his very grateful wife.

Brusso Hinges

I used these Brusso stop hinges on the brown oak chest, these are expensive but I've always found them to be very good. Not this pair, so much for 'precision hardware'!
You can clearly see the difference in widths of the two leaves at one end. Once I had carefully sanded both leaves flush and even, I could use a marking gauge to fit the long sides. This ensures a perfectly flush fit between the lid and the rear. Of course I also had to sand down the other hinge to match, a lot of work.

Brown Oak Compound Dovetail Blanket Chest Finished!

Lovely Shavings!

I planed the spalted beech panels flush with the frame using my Lie Nielsen No 7.

The coloured shavings were so nice I didn't want to throw them in the bin!

Compound Dovetail Blanket Chest

I've been working on a large blanket chest in brown oak with compound angle dovetails. The sides are made from two boards to make up the 20" height.
Preparing the edges on my long shooting board gives a perfect fit, the boards should be dead flat and have no glimmer of light showing through the joint.

With a nice fit clamps aren't necessary (or desirable), stretched masking tape does the job very well.

Here are the four sides, one angle is cut at 7 degrees and the other at 2 degrees.

With four benches in my workshop, and three different vices, I found the superb vice on my Ulmia bench to be the best suited. The right hand side of the jaw is 'toed in' giving a firm grip without any extra clamping.

Here's some of the completed dovetails, all went very well using my Excellent Skelton Long Stroke dovetail saw.

The carcass completed with the angled feet attached, I will stain these black later on.