Desk hook

[mklotz]

It's 12" long by 8" wide. The plate is 5/16" plywood. Obviously, there is nothing sacred about those dimensions. If you make one make it to suit your workspace, average workpiece dimensions and work habits. On this smaller one I used countersunk holes for the bolts but on the larger one in the garage, I used T-nuts set into shallow counterbores in the plate so the plate would sit flat on the bench.

The one in the garage has a bolt hole pattern that fits an industrial lockable ball joint arm that can be used to position carvings in different attitudes or hold some of my powered tools. One could do the same thing on the small one by mounting a Panavise base like this...

http://www.amazon.com/PanaVise-305-L...words=panavise

I'm sure there are lots of other variants for you clever guys to invent.