What height is your grinding bench?

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I'm getting ready to build my full time benches and putting the center of my platen at about my belly button would mean I'd have 32" height bench.

What's everyone done for their grinding bench? Do you have a separate height for your grinding bench and the rest of your work areas?

I'm 6'4" or 76" tall, so a 32" bench top height seems freakishly low.
 
i think you could reverse engineer it. figure out where you would be most comfortable holding the knife, measure from there to the floor. then measure from the center of a contact wheel or tooling arm to the table surface, and add whatever you need to get the distance you ended up with in the first measurement (from knife to floor) to end up with the table height. i am 5' 11" , my table height is 35" and i hold my blade about 2 inches above the belly button.
 
John gave you the right answer. It isn't the bench height that matters, it is the point where the blade will contact the grinder …. work backward from that height.
 
For a grinder, measure the height from the ground to your elbow. Then measure the base of your grinder to the flat platen. Subtract the grinder measurement from your elbow measurement and that is where the top of your bench should ideally be at.

Having your grinder's point of grinding contact at the same height as your elbow puts less stress on your joints, and makes cleaner grinds as your push/pull them by having the platen/wheel/ etc at the same latitude as your elbow/forearm.
 
after much hemming and hawing I decided on a bench top that is 34 1/2" high. I measured a few different times where my hands fell when I tucked them in like I'm grinding and that seemed to be the best height, so far so good.
Thanks all
 
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