@rayra
Not my bench but some interesting ideas. I like the width extension “outriggers”.
If I was building my woodworking bench over again for this garage I’d make it a bit longer but narrower. (I think)
I‘m already using modified HF F clamps as hold downs in the dog holes on my bench and I LOVE them.
Well that's a neat idea and a good use for the clamps whose plastic jaw boots I've misplaced. I frequently use those clamps on the edge of the truss-boxed tabletop.
I haven't checked Ron Paulk's youtube channel lately, but the guy is forever refining his portable workshop tool and bench ideas, a few years ago he had a 'Total Station' idea that allowed all sorts of attachments and extensions. He has some really good ideas about efficiency in arrangements and work.
My big worktable needs new heavy duty casters and it's currently sized to the same deck height as my table saw to serve as a feed table. The trussed box top of the table is also split in two longitudinal halves, a couple screw out and I can sling half of it and some sawhorses into the back of my Suburban and use it as a workstation while working on something at someone else's house. Both halves are just screwed into the top of a rolling chassis made out of framing lumber.
The new top will be melamine-coated particle board again, I'm liking that pretty well for the surface. And I intend to finally bore those dog holes across a bunch of it, in some strategic areas.
My table is 42" x 84", 3.5' x 7'. It works pretty well when docked against the wall under the hanging cabinets as well. I only drag it out front and center when I'm working on the bigger projects, and I can finally see the end of those in this house.
A future rebuild might turn it into a fully-featured and enclosed base cabinet with drawers, shop vac dust-control plumbing etc. I'll have to finally reach the end of my priority list before I get around to that version. But I'd like to do it someday. I intend to have something like that as the hub of the future TX Barndo.
I'd like to incorporate some form of slim drawer top box into the body of the workbench, for router bits, chisels, saw blades etc.
And still retain the ability to dismount half of the benchtop to use as a portable workstation.
