Fitting legs directly onto a worktop for a stop gap bench!

[Dissolve]

Hello,

I'm going to make a 2.5m long workbench along one side of my new workshop using my current Dakota bench as part of the support for it. But I need to add two legs to the other end to support it for the immediate future, it's 40mm thick beech and I have some 2x2" sapele off cuts to use for legs. I'm just wondering what the best way might be to secure the legs to the worktop without building an entire new bench structure underneath?

Thanks

 

[AndyT]

I think the best way would be the most conventional way - join the two legs with a rail, mortised and tenoned into them, just like the under frame of a table. Then fix the rail to the worktop, by counter-boring and screwing up into the worktop from below.
It might be sensible to stiffen up the whole thing by adding rails along the length as well, making it even more like a table.
If you don't want to cut joints, you could just lay the rail across the legs and glue and screw it onto them.