Workbench Photo-Op

[Julie Moriarty]

Whether you made it from scratch, improved it or purchased it... Put a picture of your workbench here.

I bought the bench, made the drawers (maple sides, beech fronts), made the inserts from beech and added the tool slots in back. I have no idea how I went for decades without one.

[Matthew N. Masail]

Gorgeous....

[Roy Lindberry]

Whether you made it from scratch, improved it or purchased it... Put a picture of your workbench here.

I bought the bench, made the drawers (maple sides, beech fronts), made the inserts from beech and added the tool slots in back. I have no idea how I went for decades without one.

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Made from scratch.

[greg Forster]

iphone 8.10.13 303.jpg swapped for weekend use of my truck; the face and top of tail vise I had to replace (that's red DYE on the top)

[Joe A Faulkner]

Two pine, splayed leg saw horses, a 10' 2x12 on a couple of cleats, and a 150' of 8/4 rough-sawn hard maple with one edge hand jointed?

[Leigh Betsch]

For a similar thread check out the Show us your bench thread in the announcement sticky:
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=124750

[Gary Viggers]

The top is made from three boards of 16/4 hard maple. Because of some twist I only got about 3-1/2" of final thickness. Rails are drawbored into the legs. Record hold down in the center. The leg vise has the Crisscross from Bencrafted. Shiplapped bottom shelf. The end vise uses a Record 52-1/2.


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[Frederick Skelly]

Wow Julie. Thats a heckova bench!

[Julie Moriarty]

For a similar thread check out the Show us your bench thread in the announcement sticky:
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=124750

Thanks! I did a search for something like that and a bunch of other threads came up but not that one. Guess I should have looked at the stickys first. I find it really informative to see how we get things done. Just pictures of the workbench are loaded with ideas.

[Don Dorn]

The top is made from three boards of 16/4 hard maple. Because of some twist I only got about 3-1/2" of final thickness. Rails are drawbored into the legs. Record hold down in the center. The leg vise has the Crisscross from Bencrafted. Shiplapped bottom shelf. The end vise uses a Record 52-1/2.

That's a beautiful bench - obviously took a lot of work and expense, but I think the result was worth it. I'd be too afraid to scar it up which is why mine is a basic top out of laminated pine and Record style vices. Even though it works perfect, it's very scared and I won't show it until we have an ugly bench contest.

Enjoy the fruits of your labor - very nice.

[Chris Griggs]

Julie, that under bench storage looks awesome! Very well laid out. Something like that is definitely part of the plan for my next bench build (hopefully, happening soon )

[Mark Dougan]

I'm brand new to all this and somewhat lacking in space( until I clear out the garage........one day.)
So here is my workbench. A slightly modified "Milkman's Workbench" shamelessly copied from Practical Woodworking.
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[Chris Hachet]

Absolutely beautiful, Julie. An inspiration to me to get my woodworking house "in Order."

[Cody Cantrell]

This is my bench. It came from a closed cabinet shop. I paid $100 for it and a bunch of USA made c clamps. I added the Veritas wagon vise and the tools. One of these days I intend to make a Shaker style base for it but there always seem to be more pressing things to build.
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[Chris Griggs]

This is my bench. It came from a closed cabinet shop. I paid $100 for it and a bunch of USA made c clamps. I added the Veritas wagon vise and the tools. One of these days I intend to make a Shaker style base for it but there always seem to be more pressing things to build.
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Holy Cow! The vise on that alone (assuming its fully functional and probably even if its not) is worth a quite bit more than you paid for the whole bench. NICE WORK!!!