Just like me this island style workbench is cheap and easy,
Hi I'm Warren from One Woodand were going to be making this cheap island style workbench, this probably cost a little
over $100 in materials and you can knock it out in a weekend
The joinery is nice and simple so a lot of the time your first project when you are a
woodworker is a workbench, you might not need something as big as this probably half the
size of this would do the job for most people this things got a fair amount of weight on
it, its pretty big so lets hook into it.
First thing we need to do is cut 8 legs 800mm long ill setup my stop block so each cut will
be exactly the same i dont have to worry about measuring each one.
for the joinery i am going to be using a Kreg HD pocket hole jig, this ones designed for
using on larger lumber rather than the smaller pocket hole jigs they make its a pretty simple
thing you just clamp it on clamp it on like so.
And where done 2 holes then we just get another little screw drive it in like that and all
done.
to secure the top to the frame im going to use pocket holes using the normal kreg pocket
hole jig.so well just put a few holes in along these pieces here.
next were going to use the table saw to cut some slots in the timbers for our little dividing
wall the end were going to cut towards the end so if i want to clamp ive got a little
bit of real estate for the centre dividers we will just cut down the middle, so adjust
this in case im not exactly in the middle what were going to do put a little cross on
the side that goes against the fence so if im a little bit out at least we will be a
little bit out all in one direction.
now were read to start assembly, because we have used pocket holes this will come together
really really quickly if you haven't used a Kreg pocket hole jig before there highly
recommended so all we need to do that you can see we have got our holes here we just
need to clamp here clamp it together grab the screw and thats it and thats all we to
do and thats a really strong joint that will last quiet well.
now who spotted what i did wrong there can you see it have a look can you see it let
me show you i let the good rug get in the shot with my wood on it so i don't scratch
my wood dead man walking when the boss sees that.
um just for this workbench im building i just had trouble getting the legs perfectly square
so what i did a whopping big hunk of triangle drilled a few holes in it cut some notches
in it and its been able to hold things perfectly square for me all we do is just sit the leg
where we want it line it up then just grab these little fence clamps they just go straight
in the hole screw it in and thats perfectly square in this plane as well as this plane
because its nice and thick it just there it doesn't wobble or anything so its nice and
easy to setup i think i will be using it quiet a bit and then i also cut a couple of notches
so i can also you know clamp it for some extra support or if i've got to inset it theres
a little bit more reach then we can just reach around the back knock it in and its done,
what can we call it it needs a name the ultimate triangle of squareness that will do.
Im just going to add some soft feet so we slide it around on the floor just like a nylon
thing that make it easier just need a T nut and thats it.
So I've made 2 boxes here so um with larger projects its normally easier to do it in like
a modular design so if you even look at your kitchen cupboards and big things like that
there just a series of little boxes and you put them all together so all done we've go
2 boxes and we will just put these in and screw the top on and we'll be done in about
10 minutes.
You don't have to use pocket holes to build this bench you can use use simple joinery
like I've done with this bench here i built this years ago still going really strong its
never moved and i don't think it ever will all you do is just have your upright place
your rail across there 4 screws just drill and the wood doesn't split ad then for your
side pieces just place that along there same again 4 screws and you can see you secured
in lots of different spots and that will never move.
Okay the next thing is i've drawn a grid over the whole table which is 150mm spacings you
can do whatever yo want that what i like and then were going to drill some 19mm holes the
the dog holes push devices like this in clamp various things to the surface of the table
makes your life very easy.
You ever hear that expression a good lure catches more fisherman then fish well for
woodworkers its these things router bits i have more router bits than i know what to
do with but um when you are first starting out you don't need to many i think these three
bits will get you through most of what ever you need to do and i probably still do 80%
of what i do the first one is a um flush trim bit which use which has a little ball bearing
there and this ball bearing will ride along a pattern or edge of a workbench and trim
it flush with anything so its good if you are making patterns stuff like that. The next
one is a chamfer bit which will just put a 45 degree chamfer around your edge and thats
all you need for that one and then a round over bit which is the same sort of thing it
will just put a round over edge across your workbench or whatever you are doing so I'm
just going to use this to soften the edge of the workbench.
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