let's go around here i need a workbench i need an another workbench
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so it's three sheets of plywood for today's workbench and it's very similar to the style
of workbench that i've built a couple of times on the channel the ron pork workbench
my quest for the perfect setup continues so the garage here is the workshop for the home
renovation and we're going to be building wardrobes cabinets that kind of thing
and i want it to work like this a lot of the stuff that we're going to use is
probably going to be sheets like plywood and stuff so i want a sheet storage area
here and then i want to pick the sheets up one by one and bring them onto a bench
today's workbench now you know i've got a workbench right here clearly but the issue
with this one is i made it for portable work site use you know put it in the van drive to a job site
and set it up easily it's lighter smaller and i had to improvise in order to support bigger
sheets so i came up with this little wing design that you can see here and it kind of clips in
and it's good it supports the sheets but it's not it's not great you can't just throw the sheets on
you've got to be a bit careful with it but it was a sacrifice i had to make to make it more
portable but now i have more space so i can make a more suitable workbench that i can
just throw sheet supply on and not worry about it keep this one for job sites so it's nice and
compact in the van and then i got the best of both worlds right i got given this um so
add and i've had it for a little while but i never use it it's kind of fun though right
ah
i do have plans here for the workbench uh but these plans were designed by ron paul so i'm
not going to show you them here on the channel but i highly suggest if you want to follow along and
build the same kind of bench that i'm building i'll put a link below and you can buy the plans
off ron himself and they're really good there's a full breakdown here of sizes and they're both an
imperial and metric ron started designing these benches over 10 years ago and sharing it here
on youtube so i'll link his channel below as well if you want to check that out highly recommended
that's where the inspiration for this bench comes from this guy here the guy who created it
there you go that's the size of the benchtop about 1.8 meters by 864 millimeters
the added bonus of the taper storage is much quicker
cutting through all of that with the tracks that would have taken twice the amount of time
but you get a lot more rough sort of tear out on the edges see all that i might need to change
the blade on my table saw that could help and having a bit more surface area so i'm not sort of
holding the board and stopping it from tipping out i think that'll help as well so if you've
got any ideas let me know in the comments below we've got a bench to screw together just about
it's that time of day again check it out plums this is from our neighbor's plum tree it's plum
season and we've still got a whole bunch over here in the bowl as well anyway this kitchen
here is what i want to replace and i'm thinking possibly maybe potentially replacing it myself
building new cabinets now i've got plenty of time to think about this because there's a lot
of structural stuff that we want to change um and obviously the kitchen will be changed after that
but uh i'm thinking i could build some cabinets and that's part of why i'm building the workbench
i'm building that can break down plywood sheets and then i'll have to do something
about my table saw because it's very difficult to get consistent repeated cuts with a track saw
because i'm relying on me right i'm relying on me putting the track in the right place every time
that's what i found when i built that laundry and it takes a lot longer because of that look at that
thing of beauty
jess what are we gonna do with all these plums i have no idea
what to do at the moment we're not gonna be out eating more
we're gonna become one of those people with a chest freezer yeah like my grandma
we're still um working on the plans with the architect and figuring out what we're going to
do there we know we want to open this kitchen up a bit and we know we want to go to the front yard so
none of that has changed let's carry on with this workbench shall we it's got brownie here
the only reason i put these blocks on
is to raise it because i had these sacrificial pieces up here
these ones so when i cut through the thing i'm cutting i don't cut into the bench i
cut into this instead so i put them on just to raise it above this level
so
well there's your frame time to put the top on it it's quite a loose sort of flimsy thing at the
moment which is what helps with the portability of these benches i'm not very strong that's very
light let's put the top on it and that will help get it square i'm just using screws here
timber screws square head timber screws and i'm not gluing it this time i want to be able to
unscrew it and change things in the future and if you glue that and pin that it's a lot harder
so
the bench is done i'm really enjoying this by the way having this garage and building stuff
in here and making getting prepared for renovation and having all this space it's
a little luxury oh my god oh i forgot to rush to this it's taking the edge off so it's not sharp
i've put two four holes in the top here one two
three four and those holes are for legs so the way ron has designed the legs is that they have little
hinges they have hinges at the top that keep the two pieces together and the hinges slot into these
holes i might do that but i want something a bit more uh maybe like a cart or something
i'll do that in the future i think but i didn't want to eliminate the possibility of
having the fold out legs oh my god this is why i made the smaller bench
the workbench and all its glory i'm definitely going to put some holes at the top here for
all those clamps and bench dogs and things like that there's a system that you can use
to do that and i'm gonna see if i can get a hold of that but anyway there we have it
you grab the plywood here you wanna work on the bench pick it up put it on there
and then you're like oh no i've got to go work at a work site and then you just grab this bench here
and you put a hole in the roof cuttery sheets there
move over here to a table saw maybe another workbench one that you can really hammer away at
and there's also the drop saw over there i'm very happy with the setup have i said that already
oh yeah like i said before i'll put the link below
for ron's channel and i'll put his website so you can see where all his plans are for
this bench and other benches like them he doesn't know i'm making this video by the way it's just
he deserves a credit all right i'm gonna keep working on this garage i'm gonna have a nice
storage area for timber and then uh it's all happening see you in the next site episode
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