Yesterday afternoon, a group from Delta and Porter-Cable stopped by the shop. After meeting the early arrivals and while standing in the F+W Media lobby waiting for others to show up, someone mentioned that they wanted to see the Gluebo, Megans LVL workbench that graces the cover of the November issue.
The funny thing about the bench is that people don’t just want to look at it, but they also love to jump on it to see if it is really as strong as it seems.
In Valley Forge at the Woodworking in America conference, I cant tell you the number of woodworkers that mentioned Megans video and her jumping on the bench (click here to watch the dance). One attendee even asked me to take his photo from the top of the bench, holding his camera phone.
On a fact-finding mission, the guys from PC and Delta were on their way to visit a few shops and woodworkers. They took their turn at the famous Gluebo bench. As you can see in the photo, the bench took their best shot and prevailed, but a couple of the guys felt a bit of swaggering.
LVL Bench 3 (or is that 6? ), woodworkers 0
(For all the management-type folks at Porter-Cable and Delta, we really had to coax the guys to jump up on the bench.)
