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A bench for working glass may be a highly personal thing. But, is there such a thing as a standard for size, shape or arrangement of equipment, etc.?

My wife has been doing stained glass off and on for a number of years. I being a woodworker have been more then happy to make benches for her to work on except we have not come up with a design that has worked all the way for her. The last one was an "L" shaped design that had an inset for her bandsaw and work area for her grinder. A problem with that design was she had trouble working with large windows because she had trouble reaching the center of the work. How do the experts handle their large pieces?

Help please. We again have the chance to design a dream workshop for her and we want to do it right. Could someone help?

Roy Neudecker

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Roy Neudecker
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i have a large table that i can access from all 4 sides. That way working large is not a problem. Equipment does not go on the table but on benches running along the walls. m

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Michele Blank

Michele,

What about grinding don't you have to spend time grinding a little bit at a time to fit a into your work making it necessary to go back and forth between your machines and work table?

Do you do your cutting on your work table and have the work on the same table or are you using a seperate bench for work piece and one for cutting and one for machines?

Thank you for any information to help us work through this.

Roy

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Roy Neudecker

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Michele Blank

At one time I had a grinder mounted on one of those "monitor movers", the swing arm deal that fastens to a desk and allows you to position the monitor wherever you needed it. I had mine screwed to one end of a walk-around work table that was about 36"X80, made out of an old solid core door. At that time I was frequently working on several projects at once, so I swung the grinder to whichever side of the table I was standing at the time.

I also had a workbench once where the grinder was on a pull-out shelf from under the work surface. I had the work surface at about 39" and that made the grinder top at about 34 or 35". I arranged the shelf so that the grinder would just clear the underneath side of the table support.

Now, I have a free-standing 4'x8' main work table with counters and cabinets on the wall along one side and around one end. I currently have the grinder on the counter, so I only have to turn around and take one step from the middle of the table to be at the grinder. I have another table, the old

36X80" one, that I carpeted, which I use for cutting. I also mounted my lead vice and stretcher at each end of that table, along one edge. My came bender is screwed to the edge at the middle of the long length of the big table. I keep the bandsaw under the big table on a shelf, and drag it out as needed.

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