Built a Workbench

[crazymanandy]

In preparation for my first guitar build, my Dad and I designed and built a workbench for workspace and a place to mount a drill press. It's 36" tall, 69" long, and 37" wide. I posted this over at PG and ReRanch, but I thought I'd post it here for you guys as well.



Here you can see all the of the wood we bought to build it. The top of the bench is 3/4" Oak plywood and the bottom shelf is 1/2" Blondewood ply. The rest are 2x4s and 2x6s.



The outer frame and the frame for the bottom shelf is pretty much done.



Added some angle braces to level it out.



We added four 2x6s to the top to make a place for the oak ply to lay on. We also finished the frame for the bottom shelf.


We are about to screw the top and the frame together.



This is the finished table, with both the top and the shelf attached. She is solid as a rock and I'm very happy with it. I'll probably stain and seal it sometime. We just mounted a drill press on it and the table holds up just fine.

Not too bad for $129.

CMA

[ChrisK]

You're not like getting serious about this guitar building and modding stuff or anything are you?

;D


The only thing that I'd change is to move the two side bottom leg braces off of the floor. This makes self-leveling probable(r) and sweeping underneath possible.

You may want to add a back diagonal or "X" brace as well, especially if'n there's a drill press mounted thereon. Heavy is.

Congrats.

[crazymanandy]

chrisk said:

You're not like getting serious about this guitar building and modding stuff or anything are you?

;D


The only thing that I'd change is to move the two side bottom leg braces off of the floor. This makes self-leveling probable(r) and sweeping underneath possible.

You may want to add a back diagonal or "X" brace as well, especially if'n there's a drill press mounted thereon. Heavy is.

Congrats.

No, I think it is just a passing fancy.

Thanks for the tips. I want to keep the bottom shelf easily accessible from both sides, so what if I added two angle braces in the corners of the table? Sorta like this:


Not really accurate, but you get the picture.

[ChrisK]

Yep, triangles are.

[crazymanandy]

Lol, I tried to make an illustration in the text editor, but it didn't come out right. I replaced it with a better one.

CMA

[ChrisK]

I knew what you meant.

[benitosuave]

Add locking wheels and you will have a convenience machine!

[kuzi16]

when i built my work bench i made the main work area at albout elbow hight. this eliminates bending over so much while working. the secondary work area is for the drill press and bench mounted band saw. My only complaint about this table is that its too small.
But we all know the natural laws of the work shop. The first law being: your project will always expand to the area that is given.

i also have an old POS table that was left in the house when we moved in. I use this for a spray table.

[sumgai]

kuzi,

.......
But we all know the natural laws of the work shop. The first law being: your project will always expand to the area that is given.

You can thank Mr. Parkinson for that particular law.

i also have an old POS table that was left in the house when we moved in. I use this for a spray table.

I didn't know any of those were left, they built so few of them. Better hang onto it, it'll be a collector's item, someday. ;D



sumgai