I was in need of a new Workbench so looked on the net and found a bench design by an American called Tom Casper.
Having been challenged by one of his Students to design a bench which had to be low cost he came up with this
http://www.workbenchdesign.net/bench1.html
I have been lucky enough to get my timber out of the Skip at work.
Although the bench is made up of frames sheathed in ply it is a very solid and stable platform, and i have used timber and ply smaller than the plan specified, his design says a bench in a Weekend, Its taken me 5 evenings and a few hours on Saturday afternoon.
The tail vice gave me a few headaches as on the drawing he has used a large timber type clamp and i have used an old drill press vice to push against the dogs.
A very easy to build project and the plans are super even down to cutting lists for all the different components, if your thinking about a new bench look at this design as its free and you can make it out of cheap materials.
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