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Check the free section of the Plans Now website ( http://www.plansnow.com/mdplans.html ). They have a few workbenches you can base your worktable on. You may also want to check this site for free plans .They have desk and workbenches plans. Some of them are pretty involved but the office desk ( http://ourhouse.ninemsn.com.au/ourhouse/fa...shop/08/896.asp ) seems fairly easy to realize. For the table top, I recommend a technique I learned from the Shopnote magazine. You can use MDF as a body for your table top. It's a little heavier and more stable than plywood. To avoid the problem that MDF has of absorbing water, you glue a piece of 1/4" hardboard over the MDF. You can also use double-sided tape to be able to replace the hardboard. The hardboard is very resistant to pounding but not that resistant to cutting. Anyhow, it's a stable surface that is remarkebly smooth.

After looking at your tools, I decide that it was worth coming up with my own version. With a hole cutter, I drilled an old plastic cutting board and stacked the pieces one on top of the other. Placed everything on my lathe to even things up and placed a screw through the pieces. Now I have to turn the handle where the screw will be driven into using a threaded insert. It's not finished but I have a good feeling that this make a great maul. Thanks for the idea. I found this link on the internet that covers making your own mallet. That's the next thing I'm trying. I'll post pictures when I'm done. But don't hold your breath because I'm a bit of a proscratinator. Here is the link: Perfect Carving Mallet ( http://www.wkfinetools.com/tMaking/art/pMallet/index.asp ) This site also has a link on making a leather mallet ( http://www.wkfinetools.com/tMaking/art/lMallet/index.asp )

It's a very nice pattern that I might poach. Always wondered how I would set-up an archery bracher that had the string aligned with the pinky finger. Your Thor hammer bracer looks great. I think the colors look great together and the carving is n_i_c_e. I would be awefully proud to own that one.