Panavise accessory arbor

[mklotz]

Very nice! I'm curious, the other end of your bench hook has some additional stuff on it" I see the planing stop on the end (although it's a bit high for a traditional planing stop..but then all the bench hooks I've ever used were for wood working ), and kind of understand why a right angle corner would be useful, but there's that bit that looks bolted onto the outside.

I'm not a woodworker (actually hate working with the stuff) so my "design" isn't thusly influenced. Actually, the hook just sort of grew using scraps of the brown stuff that were in the bin.

I added the 90 degree corner to the backstop after a part with a rounded end kept slipping along the backstop and threatened to slide off the end. The small piece of wood bolted to the side is an auxiliary backstop. The big backstop may be too far away for small parts so the auxiliary is bolted to holes drilled in the plate. Three sets of holes allow it to be placed such that a part of any size is held at a comfortable working distance. When the auxiliary isn't in use it's convenient to store it and its securing bolts where they are in the picture. That way they don't get misplaced and are immediately available when needed.

When I can't accurately predict all the end uses of a given tool, I like to use an evolutionary design philosophy. Keep modifying the tool to do each job that arises. Eventually, the tool will work for all needed uses or become such a jumble as to be useless. In the latter case, it becomes a perfect icon for the design of the next generation of its species. Hey, it works for animal species, why not tools? Of course, sometimes you end up with an anteater or a giraffe and not a leopard or an eagle. Doesn't matter, anteaters still fit their environment.