About ten years ago, I landed
another job hanging doors and was
grumbling about how much time it was
taking — time that was eating up my
profit. Back then, I was using carpettopped
sawhorses and a traditional
door buck. The old contractor I was
working for looked at these and
commented, "You know, my regular
door hanger (who for some unknown
reason was no longer with him) does
everything from the bench." The idea
began to grow on me, until I decided
to design and build a door bench that
would save me time and motion. It
took several years' worth of designs
and redesigns before I came up with
the final version shown below.
Dream Bench
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