Jeff's Josh Finn Workbench Update

I'm a sucker for benches. Frankly I can't think of a better reason to showcase a fellow +Modern Woodworkers Association  member.

+Jeff Branch is a member of the Atlanta Chapter. He's been a member of the MWA from the beginning and he's been a contributing member of the overall online woodworking community for much longer. You can catch all of Jeff's posts at woodfever.net. He's a big advocate of SketchUp and sell's his well crafted plans on his site and at Sawtooth Ideas.

Jeff's Josh Finn Bench

The bench that Jeff uses and has recently posted about is his Josh Finn inspired bench. It's made of two (2) beams (built as torsion boxes) that rest on specially made saw horses. I could go into the design more here, but you owe it to Jeff to read about it right at the source.

What I find so cool about the bench are two (2) things. First, I'm a sucker for torsion boxes. I think this bench makes great use of them to provide a wide and very usefully variety of clamping scenarios. Second, I think the Roubo's have become a bit too dominant lately. While they are a great bench, so are many other designs. Jeff's definitively non-Roubo bench helps illustrate this point.

Yet, as you'll see by reading Jeff's post, he's currently reading The Workbench Design Book and may be falling under it's design spell.

What do you ladies and gentleman, you woodworkers, use for a bench? Please share.