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<blockquote data-quote="reck123" data-source="post: 1492831" data-attributes="member: 27330"><p>I was lucky enough to be given a load of offcuts of beach from a commericial solid wood furniture manufactur. I saved a lot of them with the idea of making my workbench frame out of them.</p><p></p><p>many glue sandwiches to get the thickness of parts I needed.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]113827[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH]113828[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I decided to go for a solid wood frame and a torsion box mft style top.</p><p>The frame is made using the domino machine which made light work of the mortise and tenon joinery between the stretchers and the legs.</p><p>I have the df500 and stacked 4 dominos per joint so should be plenty strong</p><p>the internal supports are also dominoed and clamped and glued with the second bottom sheet screwed in to the supports.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]113829[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>the top is made from 20mm HDF a high density fibre board and sealed with 6 coats of poly urethane. the first few coats got sucked up pretty quickly. I bought some retractable workbench wheels to allow the bench to be mobile around the shop.</p><p></p><p>I drilled only half of my top with dog holes with only one row only going the full length of the top as I thought perhaps it would be nice to have a decent sized portion of my bench without holes.</p><p>the top is just over 2 meters long a little over 1 meter wide.</p><p></p><p>at some point I will add some dog holes in the top of the vice to allow clamping in between the vice and the gridwork and when I get some time I will add some drawers below.</p><p></p><p>I pinched the sausage style cut outs from a guy name 'Ron Paulk' (who has plans for a jobsite carpenters style workbench) as it allowed me to build a torsion box whilst still having access to the underside of the mft gridwork. It also is really handy for not cluttering up your workbench and having things you need during a project at arms reach.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]113830[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]113831[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]113832[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]113834[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]113835[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="reck123, post: 1492831, member: 27330"] I was lucky enough to be given a load of offcuts of beach from a commericial solid wood furniture manufactur. I saved a lot of them with the idea of making my workbench frame out of them. many glue sandwiches to get the thickness of parts I needed. [ATTACH width="291px" alt="IMG_1242.JPG"]113827[/ATTACH] [ATTACH alt="IMG_1184 (1).JPG"]113828[/ATTACH] I decided to go for a solid wood frame and a torsion box mft style top. The frame is made using the domino machine which made light work of the mortise and tenon joinery between the stretchers and the legs. I have the df500 and stacked 4 dominos per joint so should be plenty strong the internal supports are also dominoed and clamped and glued with the second bottom sheet screwed in to the supports. [ATTACH type="full" width="939px" alt="854BBBB8-93B1-46F0-AD59-0083FC6A12D6.jpeg"]113829[/ATTACH] the top is made from 20mm HDF a high density fibre board and sealed with 6 coats of poly urethane. the first few coats got sucked up pretty quickly. I bought some retractable workbench wheels to allow the bench to be mobile around the shop. I drilled only half of my top with dog holes with only one row only going the full length of the top as I thought perhaps it would be nice to have a decent sized portion of my bench without holes. the top is just over 2 meters long a little over 1 meter wide. at some point I will add some dog holes in the top of the vice to allow clamping in between the vice and the gridwork and when I get some time I will add some drawers below. I pinched the sausage style cut outs from a guy name 'Ron Paulk' (who has plans for a jobsite carpenters style workbench) as it allowed me to build a torsion box whilst still having access to the underside of the mft gridwork. It also is really handy for not cluttering up your workbench and having things you need during a project at arms reach. [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_1484.JPG"]113830[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_1488.JPG"]113831[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_1486.JPG"]113832[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_1483.JPG"]113834[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_1487.JPG"]113835[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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