Thoughtophone

I started writing this ages ago, during lock-down. A second lock-down seems imminent now, so I may as well publish it anyway. In any case I did make something, which I'm now looking to make more flexible, and reading this again will remind me of my original ideas. At the timer there was s a bit of a fad on you-tube: the mini work-bench: Pask Makes Adrian Preda Laura Kampf The circumstances made these really attractive. I guess, hence the fad. This would likely work for me later too: I would generally have a really small workspace, where I have a desk, where I might sit down and solder, etc, and I would get this out on the desk to do wood working. However, I don't have access to most of the facilities I need to build one. It would be vastly better to buy something, however all I've found is this which is small and rather expensive. So the question is how to make something with a small set of hand tools at my disposal... These either use, or make enormous block