Lets see your workbench

[jesse72]

I like the white bench frame with a stained top, looks good!

I also like how you still made shelves under the bench for storage but they are recessed a little to allow you to sit at the bench still? I did a similar under shelf on mine. I hate not being able to sit at a workbench and have your legs under the bench. Good work!

 

[Scottishross]

Heres mine it's a working progress

 

[mhoss44]

Am having trouble sending messages, but I would love to see some plans and details for benches from jnich1977 and mcleodross. If you can PM me or post sketches, would be appreciated. The pictures are great, but I would like to use your ideas and style for the bench I am about to build. I just can't tell how to do what you guys have done. Nice work. Thanks......


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[jnich1977]

Am having trouble sending messages, but I would love to see some plans and details for benches from jnich1977 and mcleodross. If you can PM me or post sketches, would be appreciated. The pictures are great, but I would like to use your ideas and style for the bench I am about to build. I just can't tell how to do what you guys have done. Nice work. Thanks......


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[jnich1977]

I like the white bench frame with a stained top, looks good!

I also like how you still made shelves under the bench for storage but they are recessed a little to allow you to sit at the bench still? I did a similar under shelf on mine. I hate not being able to sit at a workbench and have your legs under the bench. Good work!

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[jnich1977]

What I actually like about some of these garages are the modest practical tooling. Not everything under the sun but real bread and butter items a guy would reach for to get some installation or repair done.
This applies to big as well as small, I remember a guy showing me around to rig up for a job and while the place had a crane, shear and heavy break it was pitiful poor on hand tools, clamps, hammers, adjustable wrenches, a couple extra squares floating around etc. 500K on plant and a couple machines but cant spring 500 at the flea for some common items.
When I mentioned this the eyes glazed right over. I can work my way around some big ticket items on occasion but its too painful without enough hand tools.

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[jnich1977]

12 inch would be great, too deep and sheet just gets piled. Right now the peg board looks good. At some point it can take a lot of space to store a few items one used rarely, the up side to it is it can be easily modified. Don't ever paint outlines behind the tools like they do in grade school shop class.

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[jnich1977]

Don't forget to plumb your sink drain before using it.

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[Scottishross]

Am having trouble sending messages, but I would love to see some plans and details for benches from jnich1977 and mcleodross. If you can PM me or post sketches, would be appreciated. The pictures are great, but I would like to use your ideas and style for the bench I am about to build. I just can't tell how to do what you guys have done. Nice work. Thanks......


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Hey mate
What info are you looking for

A can give you my email if ur looking for more info

 

[mhoss44]

@mcleodross.....sure, I was looking at the sliding doors on yours, guess you created tracks with 1x2 and 1x4 ?


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[fox4life]

Just finishing up with my stevo inspired bench. Just need to mount the vise and fill the toolboxes.

 

[glockman]

Very nice.

 

[cookiexd40]

Just finishing up with my stevo inspired bench. Just need to mount the vise and fill the toolboxes. [emoji481]

That's beautiful

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[Pupuhd]

Just finishing up with my stevo inspired bench. Just need to mount the vise and fill the toolboxes.

Nice, very nice. I did a similar assembly using an older Craftsman tool cabinet and upper chest of drawer unit inside of 1-1/2x3" tubing cage for a lathe base cabinet. Questions: I've heard great reviews on those HF US General tool cabinets you have there. How are yours working out? What's your total height from floor to countertop?

Going to build another similar setup using the HF tool cabinet you have, however mine will have a metal drip pan for my vintage Atlas mill and shaper to sit on top.

I "see" said the blind man to the deaf man as he picked up his hammer and saw.

 

[fox4life]

Thanks guys.

Pupuhd, Im impressed with the HF toolboxes so far, for the price. Very sturdy and well made compared to the Craftsman boxes I have, that are literally falling apart after less than 10 years. The top ended up being 39" from the floor, and could be dropped or raised an inch or so either way.

 

[rexer]

fox4life,

very cool bench and set up. the center drawers maybe could have been level so you can have a shelf for gloves , helmet and the like...

again very cool..

 

[jesse72]

Looks good!

Just finishing up with my stevo inspired bench. Just need to mount the vise and fill the toolboxes.

 

[Scottishross]

@mcleodross.....sure, I was looking at the sliding doors on yours, guess you created tracks with 1x2 and 1x4 ?


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There not sliding doors mate there just normal doors that open


Will get some pics for u

 

[big_dan]

So here's mine. Approx 24' long give or take, around 40" in height. Used to work as a super for a GC doing HUD remodels and the cabinets were ordered wrong (too many of the same size) so I was told to get rid of them. Done. The shop is constantly evolving around different projects, it seems, so nothing ever stays the same but its been this way the longest.

Sorry if the pic is huge - think I have it sized right . . . . .

 

[mrodgers]

There not sliding doors mate there just normal doors that open


Will get some pics for u

I thought they were sliding doors too. Looking closer, you can see the hinges.

 

[Scottishross]

I thought they were sliding doors too. Looking closer, you can see the hinges.

My email mate

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Send me a email mate a will send u more pics

 

[Toxicscrew]

First one is the metal working room, needed to seperate wood area from metal due to contamination issues. Both the bench and the table I bought from a heavy equipment repair co that went, well not out of business, more like into hibernation. Bench is heavy as hell and came with the vice and grinder. Additionally it holds my old Cman drill press and new Eastwood grinder/belt sander (bought prior to the bench).

Second is sort of the general bench, or "thinking" bench. Also hold my stereo now. Base is solid maple, from a cut up wood rack I was given and the top is a counter that the finish didn't take so I had to build another.

 

[jnich1977]

Just finishing up with my stevo inspired bench. Just need to mount the vise and fill the toolboxes.

thats a damn nice work bench!

 

[youngnstudly]

This is a little "hillbilly" but I wanted a work bench with closed storage that was lockable, and a nice top surface for doing assembly work and such. I chose to buy a Lowe's Jobsite box, I mounted HF casters and Sears butcher block top to it, and welded a light rack from conduit that holds a 4' light fixture (plus my stronghand portable welding table). Attached to the box's bottom side is a rack that hides the 32" x 30" (3/8" thick) plate that I use for tig welding.

And YES, the price shown below is what I paid (!!!). I was suppose to get a 10% discount off the $288.00 price since I complained about how warped the box was from being welded, but I think the nimrod coed at the register was too busy texting and goofing off with the other store employees to enter the code correctly. I was just glad I paid with a credit card....I ALMOST paid in cash, which might have spoiled the store's generosity.

 

[rartuin270]

Here is one I finished about a week ago. $35 solid core door top that weighs about 85lbs.

 

[rmalkow2]

This is a little "hillbilly" but I wanted a work bench with closed storage that was lockable, and a nice top surface for doing assembly work and such. I chose to buy a Lowe's Jobsite box, I mounted HF casters and Sears butcher block top to it, and welded a light rack from conduit that holds a 4' light fixture (plus my stronghand portable welding table). Attached to the box's bottom side is a rack that hides the 32" x 30" (3/8" thick) plate that I use for tig welding.

Nice rolling work bench idea from parts/pieces and some effort. I like the tube light rack idea you made for overhead lighting. I think I have a bench that needs the same treatment. May have to follow that idea.

 

[NUTTSGT]

And YES, the price shown below is what I paid (!!!). I was suppose to get a 10% discount off the $288.00 price since I complained about how warped the box was from being welded, but I think the nimrod coed at the register was too busy texting and goofing off with the other store employees to enter the code correctly. I was just glad I paid with a credit card....I ALMOST paid in cash, which might have spoiled the store's generosity.

LOL, you paid 10% of what they 10% discount was supposed to be.

You ****.

 

[youngnstudly]

Nice rolling work bench idea from parts/pieces and some effort. I like the tube light rack idea you made for overhead lighting. I think I have a bench that needs the same treatment. May have to follow that idea.

The only part I don't like about my light rack is the fact I had to extend it out so the lid would still clear it when opened. This obviously prevents you from pushing the box against the wall tightly. You have way more flexibility with a standard workbench though, so that's cool.

LOL, you paid 10% of what they 10% discount was supposed to be.

You ****.

Hmmmm. I never thought of it like that. I was too busy thinking of it as the store giving me a 99% discount! I ALMOST walked back in to buy the second one they had on the floor (but it was REALLY screwed up/scratched/dented!).

The store manager was on vacation so everyone in there was trying their hardest to avoid working! First I couldn't get help, then THEY couldn't find the aisle manager, then HE couldn't find the forklift operator to get the box off the top shelf of the rack, etc.

I spent 1-1/2 HOURS in the store before the item was loaded in the truck! I just about left that parking lot with the truck sideways and my foot to the floorboard I was so happy after looking at the receipt!

The best part was the aisle manager refusing to give me a discount while trying to claim that "this side of this box is nicer than the other box I showed you, plus it has less scratches." I was yelling "WHO THE F%^K LOOKS AT THE BACKSIDE OF A TOOLBOX, YOU *****!?!?! That would be the side that goes against the WALL!!!!!"

Andy

 

[jeffmoss26]

Have not posted pics of my benches in a looong time:

 

[Algoma56]

And YES the price shown below is what I paid (!!!). I was suppose to get a 10% discount off the $288.00 price since I complained about how warped the box was from being welded, but I think the nimrod coed at the register was too busy texting and goofing off with the other store employees to enter the code correctly. I was just glad I paid with a credit card....I ALMOST paid in cash, which might have spoiled the store's generosity.:

This happened to me a few years ago buying a jet pump. I used a credit card, and the store found their mistake and corrected it within the day. Wish I would have paid cash! No trace.

 

[youngnstudly]

This happened to me a few years ago buying a jet pump. I used a credit card, and the store found their mistake and corrected it within the day. Wish I would have paid cash! No trace.

Apparently mistakes like this are fairly common...from what I hear anyways. A family friend told me that a similar thing happened to her TWICE at the same Lowe's store I went to.

The first time she and her husband bought all new windows and a sliding glass door during their house remodel, and they crammed as much onto 3 store carts as possible.

At the register, the clerk scanned only a portion of the items and then got mad when our family friends explained that the windows were sold individually (even though they looked like they were grouped together and sold as one).

So months later the same friend goes back to that store to get tile to redo the entire floor in her house, the box comes with "X" number of tiles in it, and she grabs box after box.

When it came time to pay, she ended up with the SAME unpleasant lady clerk, and she didn't scan the inked bar code on the boxes, she just lifted the top flap and scanned the store's sticker price that indicated the INDIVIDUAL cost per tile.

Moral of the story? Always keep your condoms in your car? Oops, the moral is that Lowe's is my favorite store to shop at...until they close down from "LOWE" quarterly earnings and hiring employees with a "LOWE" IQ!

Andy

 

[1/2 Cup]

I have just finished fitting the stainless draws to my fabrication bench finally.

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Regards

 

[fstbusa]

A little full of stuff......

 

[larry4406]

I have just finished fitting the stainless draws to my fabrication bench finally.

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Regards

Oh come on! You can't drop a bomb like that without details man! Slides?! Bearings?! Tools used?! Beers drank!

 

[1/2 Cup]

Oh come on! You can't drop a bomb like that without details man! Slides?! Bearings?! Tools used?! Beers drank!

The build pics are in one of my albums Larry4406.

I would hate to guess just how may beers, scotch and drys or red wines were consumed on this build.

The bearing slides are 50 kg el cheapos but work really well, firm but not hard to use and cost a whole $6.00 per set.

Most of the structural stuff is just used bits and pieces of steel I had laying around.

The draw facias and side panels are new brushed s/s and the draw cases were fabed out of some new old s/s sheet I had as well..

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Many thanks and I hope this helps..

 

[Beaumont67]

Homemade oak top work bench, heavy duty all the way:
- used free steel industrial warehouse racking (scraped at factory) for the steel framing, all 2" sq. tubing via. 1/4" wall thickness
- 2" solid oak plank top...wide hardwood boards got thickness planed & tapcon screwed in place
- racking ends were cut down & rewelded, so workbench was at a comfortable height

Note - 24x30 ft. garage is heated with a used NG mid efficiency furnace & cooled with a 12K sleeve A/C...items cost $400

 

[galooph]

Here's mine:

Some old pallet racking for the frame, then an 8'x4' worktop composed of 3 sheets of 18mm (3/4") ply and topped with 6mm (1/4") steel.

More pictures up at http://galooph.com/blog/2014/12/01/dan-sized-workbench/

 

[Absynthe]

Sorry bad photo's figuring out this new phone.

Top painted over and over, with whatever black I have on hand.

 

[Alexbn921]

I have just finished fitting the stainless draws to my fabrication bench finally.

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NICE
Almost to nice to use.

 

[blazsawgras]

I am getting ready to build a new workbench soon I have seen some great ideas here.