As the title says, I'm a just getting into the neander ways of woodworking. Actually, I'm really just getting into woodworking in general. I've always been interested, but never really had the time or room to do so. I've finally realized I need to make the time and now have a garage with plenty of room, so it begins. I hope one day to be able to come close to matching the quality of work that is seen here, but for now will be happy with being able to improve my skills on each project that I do. I want to mention a quick thanks to all of you that post on this forum, I'm currently up to page 36 on the Neanderthal Forum going through the past posts & pulling as much advice & info from them that I can. The amount of information that I have gotten so far has been incredible. This combined with my short experience in woodworking has helped me decide that I am going to steer heavily towards the non-tailed tools. I actually just received my first planes a couple of days ago and am getting ready to order some saws, chisels, & marking tools, etc. I'm slowly figuring out what I need as I go along.
Enough rambling and now to the question (if anyone made it through the first part):
I am getting ready to start on a bench. I need the bench to be fairly mobile. I technically have a three car garage - one of the sides is two car lengths deep (tandem). I have a couple of garage queens that will be moved out when I'm working, but they have to come back in at night so I need to be able to move everything back into the tandem part of the garage. Since I'm going to be moving the bench pretty regularly, I am thinking of putting casters on the bench. The casters worry me though that the bench wont be very stable. I'm wondering that if I butt the bench up against the wall and then plane towards the wall that would help keep it from moving around? Does anyone have a setup like this or any suggestions?
The other option I was throwing around was to build a traditional bench with legs, but build pieces with casters attached that would slip under the legs with the table jacked up. I would then move the bench to where I wanted it & reverse the process.
I know a mobile bench is not the most desired one to have, but in my case I think I need to go that route. I really don't want to have to drag a 200# plus bench all over my garage.
Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions that you can provide, and again thanks for all the information posted on this site. It is a great resource for beginners like me.
Jason