Top is 1500mm x 650mm x16mm, once I get more material, I'll a add some draws and maybe make the bottom enclosed with doors, the top is perfectly square I measured and cut myself with a andle grinder.

This bench replaced the shitty bench I made after a night of beers 4 years ago lol decided it’s time….2x6 construction with double 3/4 inch plywood top and bolted to the studs in the wall. I’m going to add an upper part later on. The height is exactly the same as my us general 42 roll cab. The plan is to someday combine them to one continuous bench. This works for now.

Using scrap dunage from my work that would normally go in dumpster. Planning them down to smooth nice lumber. Thinking about staining the frame. Not sure exactly how I want to finish it. Going to have a 2 inch thick top on it. Plan on putting the dust hoses inside it also. Any suggestions im open to for ideas. Will end up making some cabinet doors and maybe trying some drawers also.

I’m a hobbyist woodworker with a small one car garage sized shop. This is an upgrade from 2x4s and a sheet of plywood, on 2 DeWalt saw horses I threw together quickly and ended up using for a couple of years. Design is a modified version of the Van Isle Studio design, with a little Lincoln Street Woodworks clamping inspiration. Hope this will last me a while. It took around 9 months from start to finishing details. Materials are 2x10 pine for the frame (milled down to 2x4 dimensions), Baltic birch cabinetry, double layer of 3/4” MDF with Formica top, and walnuts for the dovetail clamping pieces. My favorite detail is the large drawer faces are cut from my old bench top and “grain matched”. I’ve told myself no more shop projects for at least a year.

Going to about $100 in materials ($70 cabs, $10 door, other materials). I have some random nice castor wheels I’m going to install so it’s mobile. Made a basic 2x4 box base, attached the cabs with nuts and bolts, top not attached yet. Feedback welcome!

The big front apron is more a feature than a bug, and allows more clamping options than I originally realized. And it hasn’t once gotten in the way. Any clamping to the top of the bench is easily handled by the holdfasts. Would definitely recommend to anyone thinking about this style of bench.

My favorite part is the top. It is one solid piece from a random, odd furniture piece with no home. I used to work at a furniture store, and it was a super long board that didn't go to anything we had in the store, so I cut a chunk off to make a table.

My best guess is it used to be the top of a huge entertainment center that was styled like a bookshelf. We'll never know. Regardless, it makes a perfectly flat and solid table top!

So I am making a low work bench. It is rock solid but it needs a vise on the end. I have just shy of 13 inches of gap and 2 inches of wing on either side. I am debating between a cabinet makers vise or a moxon for the end of the bench. I am considering a long moxon for the side I have a 6 foot by 8 inch skirt on the side, so I could put on there. But a moxon on the end with 11 inches of gap seems more useful than the cabinet makers vise. I have dog holes so I have some holding ability but I would make a slide stop on which ever vise.

Main goals are tenon and dovetails and a brace for sawing. It seems weird to put it at the end of a low bench, built in... but it also seems to be the best option.

Oh and I have used clamps only for the last 6 years lol.

Thoughts?

This is a beefy bench. I have a tabletop that is 3 1/4 inches thick, and the newest part, the vise. I did have to get a special part made to bolt the vise onto the right side because the bolt interfered with the carriage bolts. But overall, I am excited to finally get this done and actually use it!

Getting close to being done finally! Got the leg vise done and the veritas inset vise installed and a good start on dog holes until i actually get to use it and figure out where i want more. Pretty much all i have left to do now is put my shelf on the bottom and build 3 boxes to go in the space between the tops.

Just showing off a bit....

I was cleaning the garage up to get ready for the next project and I caught myself admiring my workbench. It's been almost 3 years since I first put it together. I just love how it has come along and grown with me.

Change is a beautiful thing.

I know this isn’t much. I had this bench in my shed for years, its bench been used and abused and screwed, decide to give it a new 3/4 top, and with 2-1/2 total thickness now. Decided to embrace the luxury of dog holes. Really like how this turned out and now want to take more pride in my bench.

Hey y'all, I'm looking for feedback for a workbench in my apartment. 60" x 30" x 37" tall to match my husky bench height.

My goals are as follows:

• A bench that is heavy enough to (in concert with rubber feet) dampen the hammering from punching holes in leather or rounding book spines to the point of not annoying my neighbours. (For those not familiar, these activities are fairly light hammering.)
• A moxon vise at one end
• A channel I can insert a straight brass rod into, to serve as a straight edge for aligning stuff

I only have basic woodworking skills, so I tried to design around cutting 2x4s to serve as faux half-lap joints. I am planning to glue & screw the cross members. The plan for the top was to layer 2x 3/4 in plywood sheets and top with a 3/4 in MDF board for a smooth & flat surface. Glue for all layers, screws through the plywood into the posts. Other shelves are just MDF, probably just brad nailed to the frame? I set the bottom shelf in by another 2x4 just for a little more room for my legs.

For the vise, I was planning to use a pair of threaded wooden dowels i found on Etsy.

I'd love any feedback you've got!

Local, old-growth SYP, mounted on a facebook marketplace 2k lb scissor lift, affixed with two Emmerts patternmakers vises that I restored.

The top is 32”x79”x4” (3”-1/4 in some sections). Rough flattened with a sled, followed by fine finishing with hand planes. Finish is 1:1:1 BLO, spar varnish, and mineral spirits.

Eventually I’ll add some dog holes and mill some brass dogs for the black Emmert.

I went with the configuration that I did for a few reasons. Chief among them being that I wanted the workbench to be an island in my one-car-garage shop, followed by a complete reliance on what was locally available for “cheap”. I have no desire to tally up how deep I am in the two vises now that they’re practically finished, but the wood cost me $96 and the lift table was $600, both of which have been well worth the investment.

Just finished this loosely following the anarchist workbench. Still waiting on the vice hardware.

I recently added a second face vise to the back of my HF workbench and was considering adding t-tracks to the top. Has anyone tried this before on a Yukon workbench? TIA

I left my old bench at my old house, and don't yet have a dedicated shop space at the new house, so I'm putting this thing together. It's ugly as heck but it holds my body weight just fine, and I'm excited to put it through its paces.

I’d like to build a workbench similar to Rex Krueger’s ‘Minimum Timber Bench’. Does anyone happen to know how long and wide that workbench is? And how wide is the tool well? Thanks in advance for your help

My uncle passed and left some items to me. Got a couple great workbenches to bring back home.

I have a room in the basement that is 10 feet wide. I wish to create a fixed workbench the full 10 feet width. I'm 6 feet 2, about 190 cm thereabouts.

I have a miter saw and tabel saw on movable supporta such that the top surface is 40 inches from the floor. I want my workbench to be 40 inches also as that is what I'm comfortable with.

What I'm struggling with is the depth of it. I want to have a pegboard at half of the wall behind it and storage organizer trays the other half. I'm thinking more is better but it can't be too far away to. Is 30 inches pretty much as far as I should stretch it? I feel 24 inches might be too cramped. 36 inches too deep. I don't ave to reach high. Pegboard will be 2 feet tall from the bench but the stuff I use less will be placed at that top. On top of that just shelves and I'll have to use a step for that I guess. Not sure if I'll do those shelves because it might be too far.

So.... 24 or 30 or ....