[Jewelry making - Article 00309] - Re: [Orchid] Looking for bench

[doug]

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Hi Folks,

    Though I don't recall who'd asked about benches, but I thought I'd
    share some thoughts... While the benches John Frei turns out are
    absolutely magnificent, (and I hope to have the thousand or more
    dollars to invest into one, someday), there's a bench made by
    Moderna's USA Bench line that's still awfully nice at a bit less than
    half that amount! I just got mine from Tevel at Allcraft, in NYC,
    and it's a beautiful, heavy (97 lb.), solid-wood piece with a
    butcher-block top I'll probably end up sanding and refinishing, ten
    years from now (after I've burned and spilled onto it a few hundred
    times), but which looks stunning, now. Although I did have to wait a
    month or two for its arrival, it was well worth the wait, as Tevel
    had assured me. Just as with the cheaper (particleboard) Moderna
    models, it has three tool drawers on the right side, an
    aluminum-lined sweeps tray and plier shelf on the left, and elbow
    rest slats, a benchpin and dual mandrel holes above that, and stands
    about 39x18 (give or take a little). All for well under $500,
    including shipping. No disrespect intended towards John Frei, his
    well thought-out designs or his craftsmanship but, at this stage of
    my metals career, I can probably think of one or two things I'd
    rather put that extra $500 towards... like materials. 

Just my "$0.02",
Doug

Douglas Turet, G.J.
Lapidary Artist & Designer
Turet Design 
P.O. Box 242
Avon, MA 02322-0242
Tel. (508) 586-5690
doug AT turetdesign.com


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