How I built a Deadman that fits almost any workbench

Here’s a project I rescued from the old dust bin. Here I’m cutting out the dado for the bottom holder.

The wood is Cumaru. It’s a very hard wood from Brazil. It measures 3,330 LBf on the Janka scale.
My neighbor built a deck and a fence from it and threw out what was leftover. I took it.

I used an old broken f clamp to hold the deadman to the bench.

Dowels were added for extra strength.

I replaced the original handle that was on the clamp with a maple one so I could screw it through the lower part of the holding system. I then drilled a hole through the maple and the clamp stem. I removed the head and tip of a brass screw, put it through the hole in the handle and clamp stem, then I peened it to fasten the handle.

When I designed and built my workbench I allowed for an over hang of 2” plus for clamping. 

It works great.
Thanks for making it this far and reading and viewing my project. And comments are always welcome.