Most excellent ! 👍

Thanks David , HornOxx thank you and I included the expoloded view just for you… you seem to like them 😉 👍

Excellent work ! 👍

Thanks for the kind words gentlemen 😎

Thanks gentlemen 😎

Thanks HornOxx. Best I could tell from the one picture I worked from. The top slides out. I think it’s just to give a little more room for mixing your martinis 😎

Thank you!

Here I've linked the treadle (although I haven't modeled the leather cord connecting the treadle to the pitman yet. I also made the belt conform to the crowned headstock pulley while it's still flat around the big wheel.
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WOW ! Great job. I’d go cross-eyed modeling that. 👍 👍

Thanks everyone 👍 . The reference picture I used credits the design to Arne Veder.

Going to own up to one boo-boo I just now noticed , I should have lengthened the “flap stays” . Just pulled them out of the parts file and as is their not really long enough for the length of the fall flap. With that mentioned have always wondered why these large fall flaps seemed to be so popular back then ?

Looking good David.

Thank you, Dave.

Very nice.

Thank you, sir.

thanks, tuna. I'll render them one of these days . . . .

Thanks Dave. Thanks David. David, I’ll try and put something together on the post processing I did. I’ll post it in the “ Tutorials,Tips and Tricks” sub-forum. 👍

Thanks Dave 😎

strazza 1.jpgstrazza 2.jpgBenches of exotic hardwoods have their place. Case in point: The two shown here, by Frank Strazza, a superb woodworker in Texas. The contrasting hardwoods make the dovetails really pop. He uses Benchcrafted vise hardware, arguably the best for these Roubo-style benches. The image of the marquetry on the vise jaw is from a bench Strazza built for a violin-maker. I think Strazza also plays violin.

You're right, tuna: Not very practical. But attention-grabbing, yea.

Like Tuna said, nice.

"utterly impractical" I think fairly describes this piece.
However, it does look like a fun, "Why not?!" project! Good job.