I need a work bench, in the last 3 or 4 years, I have been using more and more hand tools in everything I do. And I have felt the extreme limitations in my bench, big time! I really, really, really want to build this, or something close to it.

The bench below can be seen at "Dan's Shop". It's large enough for dual purposes, hand work, and assembly. This would be ideal for my garage shop arrangement, since I have limited space, I can only have one bench.

How awesome is this?

That is massive.  What a stable place to work.

Just now, HandyDan said:

That is massive.  What a stable place to work.

You could land a plane on that sucker Dan!

Pretty cool bench. Do you think 10 men could move it?

I like it. Lots of real estate on the top to clutter up. Oh wait, that is what I would do

9 minutes ago, Gerald said:

Pretty cool bench. Do you think 10 men could move it?

Full of tools, it'd be hard!

I doubt I'd get that one down the basement steps!

6 minutes ago, lew said:

I doubt I'd get that one down the basement steps!

Build it in your basement Lew, you'd never get it out of your basement though!

What is that piece that covers up the draws used for?

 

6 minutes ago, Michael Thuman said:

What is that piece that covers up the draws used for?

 

Looks like an adjustable support when you have a long piece in the vice and it slides out of the way of the drawers when not needed. Great idea and an awesome bench.

Wow, the stuff I could pile on that!

too nice to use hard, too big to move around.  i'll stick with mine.

 

you can see it below, with some tables in progress on top.

Pretty awesome John.  Should give you plenty of room to do anything you can dream up.

 

11 hours ago, lew said:

I doubt I'd get that one down the basement steps!

bring it in a piece at a time...

4 hours ago, DAB said:

too nice to use hard, too big to move around.  i'll stick with mine.

 

you can see it below, with some tables in progress on top.

The bench ain't that pretty but those tables look very nice!

 

26 minutes ago, Joeb41 said:

The bench ain't that pretty but those tables look very nice!

 

 

the work benches serve their purpose:  a place to work.  i have a book about Sam Maloof, and in it is a picture of his work bench:  plywood top, chewed up, beat up, stained - in other words:  used to make awesome stuff.

 

those tables turned out real nice:

 

finish curing up, and in place and in context with the new bed i also made.

5 hours ago, Fred W. Hargis, Jr said:

Wow, the stuff I could pile on that!

I'll have to have two...one for the piles of stuff and one only half piled to work on...then I'd need your new shop Fred!