whos got/made their own workbench?

hi

interested in doing this myself but i'm in need of inspiration, i imagine alot of you guys love to save the pennies like me so i'm hoping for some sturdy yet thrifty designs

so please share what you have/have had/plan to have

 

kitchen worktop on some 4" ish fence post legs

 

railway sleepers FTW

Runner up would be a couple of layers of 18mm marine-ply on a 2x3" (or CLS) frame. Legs at 500-1000mm centres or so with ply on the back and sides for rigidity (doesn't need to be 18mm unless you're going for a part-time bomb shelter as well Bolt it securely to the floor if you can, failing that ballast it with paving-slabs - you'll want it to stay put when you're swinging off strut-cap nuts in the vice.

 

Check out Trev`s garage thread. He made his own bench.

 

have to agree with the suggestion on the kitchen worktop. The good thing with this is you can easy cut it to fit the space available. I would suggest you try and bolt it to the wall so it dose not move. But good luck.

 

mines got eight 6"x2" legs- corner 4 are bolted to the walls and floor + 4 evenly spaced legs toward the middle that also bolt to the floor

then 6"x2" horizontal beams running front to back and accross to span the whole garage.

topped off with an 8foot x 4 foot board of 3/4 inch marine ply ripped in half and doubled up

mines a bit high because i needed to fit a fridge and a small freezer under it, ideally it would be 6" to 8" lower but its taken loads of abuse without complaint

 

Bang that is what mines made from The next door naighbour was throwing out a solid wood kitchen work top and some cheap B&Q fence post FTW.

 

I made my own, 4m long, but the design is modular.

First off start with lots of L-Shape section, mine was 50mm.



Make the following shape twice:



Then lift the top (bottom):



Add a lick of paint, some wood (2 layers of MDF), bit of PVA glue, et viola:



All for about 150 and a few afternoons worth of work, took 2 of us, and 2 trolley jacks to lift it into place- also you'll need to make this on a flat floor!

Pete

 

Excellent job. Really great working space you have there.

I'm really pleased with the one I made but I soon realised I needed twice the length! Got another worktop ready to build a second one.



And it's certainly not that tidy anymore...

 

I wish i had a bigger lock up.

 

1" square thin section square tubing works for me. welded. if you are lucky you can recycle some old tables, the kind you would find in a school or office. skip diving.

 

I recycled a kitchen work top from someones skip and i plan to use that in the garage