New tooling station

[silverwingit]

On 8/22/2016 at 8:26 PM, JLSleather said:

2' deep seems quite popular, but I actually like mine nearly twice that.  I like a couple feet (at least 18") for tooling in front of me, and about that again for tools....

Methinks it's the total mass of whatever piece of rock you're pounding on. A piece twice as large area-wise but half as thick will yield the same inertial resistance.

Michelle

[JLSleather]

Well, not so much the rock, as teh table. The rock he has is fine -- I just like about that much MORE table on the other side of the stone (where he has that vertical thingie).  And a table at least 4 feet wide is nice, too... so belts don't hang over the edge - makes 'em tougher to tool 

 

[Colt W Knight]

I don't want my table deeper than 2' so I can reach everything while sitting in my chair. 

Edited September 3, 2016 by Colt W Knight

[cowboycolonel]

for those who might not have broken the code yet, here's the real gouge.  Everyplace has a tombstone supplier, even if there's no readily available counter-top dealer.  Now and again the engraver will make a mistake, and when he does, that piece of stone becomes an ideal tooling block.  So what if you have to make do with one two inches thick and eighteen by eighteen while you wait for something bigger.  The price will be right in the long run.