Friday 15 March 2013

I wish to share briefly, few details and few pictures of the Workbench, I have built recently. In fact, every woodworker, at some stage, start dreaming of building his own workbench. I was no different. Though, woodworking being my pet hobby, from my childhood and have made several things, using wood in combination with metal and glass to create lasting products for Homes.

My table is almost similar to many such 2" X 4" solid lumber framed Benches, except that i fixed the bottom shelf to the bottom of the frame instead of placing it on top. Now the bottom shelf is in fact a 4 inch deep box of 27”X39”. I would be placing a 4 mm thin lid on this, to protect it from dust.  The Bench is not yet fully complete in the sense, I am yet to bore the bench dog holes. For bench dogs, i found nice 3 inch long SS rods of 20mm dia and i would machine it flat on one end for about 5/8”.

Bench Legs are two 2"×4" lumber joined together and all shoulder pieces and cross beams are all 2" X 4"s. The table top is 18 mm plywood doubled up to create a solid 36mm table top and shelf is also made of 18mm ply. Castors are 5” nylon wheels, two of them lockable, to provide stability. Vise is 9” steel cast.






2 comments:

  1. Excellent workbench and great to see another Indian blog on woodworking. Wishing you all the best and looking forward to learning much from your site.

    As for the workbench, I wish you had taken some pictures while constructing it. Would have been a great help.

    Specific questions:
    What make are the castors? Is it important to get high quality ones like those sold by Hettich or local ones will be good enough?

    What kind of joints did you use to construct the frame?

    What glue did you use?

    How did you attach the top to the frame below?

    thanks

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    1. hello Indranil,

      Thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately, i did not take picture during constructions. However, I am posting some sketches, explaining the construction and answering the clarification sought by you.

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