Sorting my bench out

When I installed my workbench in the garage I just plonked my mitre saw and my vice on top. And I found out empirically that you can use a mitre saw when it is not fixed, although I admit it is probably not recommended. A vice, however, is completely useless unless it is bolted down. And the time had come to actually make that happen. Then I finally would have something more serious to work with than my very cute miniature vice that lives in the conservatory...

I decided to swap the positions of the vice and the saw around. I'll see how I like the new configuration!

The first thing I did with the vice was removing paint from future firewood. Burning wood is fine; Burning potentially scary chemicals like paint not so much. But I have a plane, and a drawknife, so I have ways of getting rid of it. So far I had been using my axe for that, but that is not an ideal tool. I'm sure that soon I will find reasons to use it for more sophisticated purposes! But for now I am just happy I finally have a working full-sized vice! And a safer mitre saw!

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