What's your workbench look like?

[BigAl62]

Ok, here you go. The white bench has a Formica top that was my modeling bench when I was a kid (it's over 35 years old!) and the base is a 2X4 frame with pressure treated 4X4s for legs. The gray one is a portable bench made from a piece of Formica covered panel with a 2X4 screwed to one side and clamped in my Craftsman (Black and Decker) Workmate clamping table and a magnifying lamp attached to the rear corner. Yes, I have way too much stuff in my garage!

 

[PhantomEB]

Here is mine in my messy workshop.

Frick in all my years of lurkin on sites, I never seen or thought of building a bench like that, so damn cool!

Hold up pretty good to hammerin on heavy parts?

 

[jeffmoss26]

I decided to take a few pics of my benches...not the greatest but they work well for me!
Main workbench-
Bench grinder, key machine I scored for 50 bucks at a closing hardware store, and a vise that needs to be replaced. Underneath the bench is my Mackie powered mixer for music through the basement. You can see all the phone systems and wiring that I have down here in my 'laboratory'

Second workbench-
Serves as my desk-computer repair, phone stuff, rekeying locks, etc. That gray mat is the best thing I ever bought. It keeps all the lock pins from flying across the room and has a spot to put each pin as you take them out of the lock. Each phone on the desk goes to a different phone system.

 

[jvitez]

I decided to take a few pics of my benches...not the greatest but they work well for me!
Main workbench-
Bench grinder, key machine I scored for 50 bucks at a closing hardware store, and a vise that needs to be replaced. Underneath the bench is my Mackie powered mixer for music through the basement. You can see all the phone systems and wiring that I have down here in my 'laboratory'

Second workbench-
Serves as my desk-computer repair, phone stuff, rekeying locks, etc. That gray mat is the best thing I ever bought. It keeps all the lock pins from flying across the room and has a spot to put each pin as you take them out of the lock. Each phone on the desk goes to a different phone system.

Love the "vintage" phones, you know, the ones I thought were way new, cool, and modern not that long ago. I've never seen any phone like the beige push button one in the top pic. What is it, a multi-line wall phone? Where did you get it? (I think you need bigger benches......)

 

[wolflrv]

Here's a pic of my main workbench, which usually sits in the center of the shop, but cleared center to work on restoring my '85 vulcan 750. The bench has woodworking vice and benchdogs drilled on the left side. I built it to be 3'x7', which allows me to lay out full sheets of plywood and rip them easily.

This is my other side bench. It's usually clear and I have a battery of various woodworking tools stored below so I can move whatever I need up top and have the full bench to work on. The tablesaw buried in the back left usually backs up to the main bench, along with the router table. Of course right now it's also full of motorcycle parts.

 

[jeffmoss26]

jvitez-
That is a Western Electric 2851 6-button wall set. A friend of mine from a phone system forum that I've been on for years sent it to me. You can just barely see the system in the first picture, to the left of the 'No Parking, Fire Lane' sign. It's nicknamed the Shoebox KSU because it's about the same size
If you like vintage phones, I will have to take pictures of my collection...I've got a wooden wall phone, several WE phones from the 40s, rotary phones from the 50s-60s, as well as touchtone ones. Some pretty neat colors too, all from garage sales etc.

 

[RivennHewn]

A re-post of my new workbench.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=104724

wishihadatalon, I've already started drawing up my take on your X-bench!

 

[jvitez]

jvitez-
That is a Western Electric 2851 6-button wall set. A friend of mine from a phone system forum that I've been on for years sent it to me. You can just barely see the system in the first picture, to the left of the 'No Parking, Fire Lane' sign. It's nicknamed the Shoebox KSU because it's about the same size
If you like vintage phones, I will have to take pictures of my collection...I've got a wooden wall phone, several WE phones from the 40s, rotary phones from the 50s-60s, as well as touchtone ones. Some pretty neat colors too, all from garage sales etc.

Yes, please do post photos of your phone collection. That would be a very cool thread. I grew up with one rotary wall phone for our whole house. How times have changed!

I still find the old style hand pieces far more comfortable than funny shaped cordless phones and cheap Chinese corded phones that are all I see available any more. I wish I would have kept some of the old phones that were kicking around. I also wonder when my kids will ask "Dad, why do you keep saying dial the number when I press the number?"

 

[rocketmac]

Yes But.... Its always the same pic's in just about every other thread.

Does Jack have any pics that show the garage with some dirt or even some mess in it.???

 

[ZipSnipe]

Aaw come on now leave 'ole Jack's garage alone. I personally would love to hang out in that garage!!! However if he made me kick my shoe's off before I entered I would protest!!!!!!!



P.S. I think Jack did an awesome job on his garage!!!!!

 

[NASTYZEN]

Does Jack have any pics that show the garage with some dirt or even some mess in it.???

Yes he does.

 

[Jack Olsen]

It gets pretty messy:

Here's how it is right now:

Currently rebuilding the engine and (while it's down) sending all the shocks/struts out for rebuilding and revalving. New rotors, too. The cool thing is the old set made it through 11 years of street and (very regular, year round) track use. The bad part is those fronts are over $400 each.

 

[wingfootedgodhead]

Hand made job using the ShelfLinks kit for the leg and pedestal supports.

 

[wishihadatalon]

Frick in all my years of lurkin on sites, I never seen or thought of building a bench like that, so damn cool!

Hold up pretty good to hammerin on heavy parts?

Thanks, so far it has held up great. I haven't been able to put a lot of weight on it, but I did do a little FEA on it in the program I designed it in and it faired quite well. If I ever need to, I will add gussets a the joint in the legs and that should help a ton.

 

[dittle fart around]

Who could have guessed that a simple post would generate this much interest. I think about half of the posts came from the same Jack guy. He must work for the government. Not only his is garage painted the same color as most military equipment he seems to have a lot of time on his hands.

 

[bobemmerich]

Right now this is it...

 

[ZipSnipe]

Right now this is it...

Well next thing ya need is a mini fridge for those beers, letting them stay warm like that is a party foul!!!!

 

[tig]

My car garage workbenches:

What it normally looks like:

My workshop/reloading bench in the house. This was my father's and he used it for pretty much the same thing: working on guns and reloading.

FWIW, I took a welding class yesterday and have started thinking about building a welding table. I saw this design (below) and it looks great to me. But I wonder if it will hold up...other welding tables I've seen look a hell of a lot more beefy!

Here is mine in my messy workshop.

 

[wishihadatalon]

My car garage workbenches:

What it normally looks like:

My workshop/reloading bench in the house. This was my father's and he used it for pretty much the same thing: working on guns and reloading.

FWIW, I took a welding class yesterday and have started thinking about building a welding table. I saw this design (below) and it looks great to me. But I wonder if it will hold up...other welding tables I've seen look a hell of a lot more beefy!

As someone who has been through 4 years of manual welding classes and 1 year of engineering experience and had over 50 years of welding engineering experience helping me design and build the table, I can say I am perfectly comfortable with the design of the table.

This was 500lbs per corner

There is obviously plastic deformation there but I don't ever forsee myself placing 2000lbs of weight on the table so I am comfy with it. If I need to hold that much weight, I will get a platen table.

 

[tig]

As someone who has been through 4 years of manual welding classes and 1 year of engineering experience and had over 50 years of welding engineering experience helping me design and build the table, I can say I am perfectly comfortable with the design of the table.

This was 500lbs per corner

There is obviously plastic deformation there but I don't ever forsee myself placing 2000lbs of weight on the table so I am comfy with it. If I need to hold that much weight, I will get a platen table.

Ok, that is cool. Very cool.

Could you offer up the dimensions & angles? I'd love to copy your design.

Thanks.

 

[wishihadatalon]

pm me your email address and I will send you the prints for it.

 

[dittle fart around]

Here's my new workbench. The beautiful Vana White is showing the fine craftsmanship of this 30 x 72 all steel workbench. Actually that's my wife Donna playing the spokes model part, and doing a wonderful job, I must say.
Made of recycled soccer goal posts, my only expenses were the casters and a sheet of 1 1/8" plywood. All told it cost me 70 bucks and 18 hours labor. The steel came with a combination of rust and white paint and that took many hours to remove.
The new workbench takes the place of one I built when I was 19. That one started out as a stained glass workbench with an integrated light box (for seeing the pattern through dark colored glass). It had been moved many times and over 700 miles to it's current location. I modified it in 1991 to work as a mitre saw extension and general catch all in my garage. It was kinda sad to see the old bench go after 35 years of projects.
The idea behind the casters is so the new bench can be moved to accommodate the work. Roll it out onto the driveway, and I can use it as a extension for my table saw and save time sweeping the garage. Always a plus.

Added an extension for my Makita table saw

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[c_mccann]

 

[dittle fart around]

I'm guessing cabinet guy. Lots of scraps of edge lamination.

 

[dittle fart around]

Turned out to be a flexi-flyer workbench. The table saw extension wouldn't support the weight. Added another full length support then cut the support and moved the weak side up 1/4 in to off set the sagging. Today I'm adding 1/4 inch thick bracing to the bottom supports. Yes that is my wife playing the part of Vana WhiteView media item 10206

 

[cnc-me]

Here's my new workbench. The beautiful Vana White is showing the fine craftsmanship of this 30 x 72 all steel workbench. Actually that's my wife Donna playing the spokes model part, and doing a wonderful job, I must say.
Made of recycled soccer goal posts, my only expenses were the casters and a sheet of 1 1/8" plywood. All told it cost me 70 bucks and 18 hours labor. The steel came with a combination of rust and white paint and that took many hours to remove.
The new workbench takes the place of one I built when I was 19. That one started out as a stained glass workbench with an integrated light box (for seeing the pattern through dark colored glass). It had been moved many times and over 700 miles to it's current location. I modified it in 1991 to work as a mitre saw extension and general catch all in my garage. It was kinda sad to see the old bench go after 35 years of projects.
The idea behind the casters is so the new bench can be moved to accommodate the work. Roll it out onto the driveway, and I can use it as a extension for my table saw and save time sweeping the garage. Always a plus.

Nice, I like the way you attached the legs.
Might have to steal that idea.

 

[dittle fart around]

I checked out your lawn mower. Man I feel truly outclassed your welding is excellent. I've got a 110 volt Lincoln 3200 mig welder that runs gas-less or accepts argon. It was recommended as "do it all" welder from the Samba VW web page. I'm self taught with some help from a neighbor who took a welding class at community college. He told me how he could lay perfect welds with stick welding. Are stick welding on the aluminum?

 

[ZRX61]

Today, with the Morgan triplets..

 

[GTO]

8' of stainless steel with a lower full length shelf out of a closed down resturant.
Got it for Free too

 

[rvr6000]

 

[AMCguy]

Here's mine.

 

[sarel.wagner]

Mine:
Being build, more pictures here:

Done constructing it:

Being used:

Will post up some more if ya all want. Sorry for the last dark ones, will go take better pictures for ya
Rgrds

 

[klhitman]

kinda messy but i am working on it

 

[sarel.wagner]

Better picture of the workbench:

More pictures here: ->

Rgrds

 

[sarel.wagner]

And the unfinished(yet) welding table/bench, being used



Rgrds

 

[sscustom]

heres mine finished it at the age of 19 it took bout a week on and off



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[Kevin54]

I see two larger square holes directly under the top that may be used for a receiver? But what are the 5 square pegs out of the side legs for? Just for hanging stuff or something to snag your leg on?

 

[dittle fart around]

heres mine finished it at the age of 19 it took bout a week on and off

Time to get it dirty. Do you have your first project set to go?

 

[Hammer1963]

Frick in all my years of lurkin on sites, I never seen or thought of building a bench like that, so damn cool!

Hold up pretty good to hammerin on heavy parts?

I'm like you. Never thought of this setup and I am impressed with this design. It has me itching to give it a try. Very nice

 

[balane]

Nothing special here, kind of cobbled together from what the last homeowner left over. But it works for me and surprisingly I can get a lot done out here.