5 Tips For A BETTER Workbench
I recently dismantled and refurbished my old workbench. So let’s talk about it, shall we?
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Great tips! The bit takeaway is a bench is not furniture… its a tool.
6:57 You recited the incantation, "That thing ain’t goin’ nowhere!" I believe that’s why it works…when you recite the incantation, you call upon the old magic to engage with the spirit of the wood and to hold it FAST.
What kind of whiskey are you drinking?
yup to all those tips, especially number 5.
My first bench was from an article in Fine woodworking somewhere in the late 70’s. I learned plenty making it and it had a shoulder vise that has been invaluable. I also learned how to hide mistakes. Its heavy, its still solid and has now gotten to the point of needing the top resurfaced. Gonna use my hand plane and destroy 40 years of patina to make it flat again.
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Great advice, particularly on the material for a bench.
Im a newbie woodworker in country with limited power tools. I enjoy your channel. Thank you
Some brilliant advice here! My bench consists of an MFT top and rest is made from leftover engineered wood floorboards and it’s rock solid! Probably not a forever bench but it was dead cheap to make (only significant expense was fifty quid for the top), and the dog holes give you so many options for accessories.
Something about whiskey from a coffee mug just hits different.
thanks for the K.I.S.S method of workbenches and have a sip of that whiskey for me 🙂
thank you . hey your tool set up works so its thier problem .
I enjoy your woodworking chats. Awesome format, feels like a real chat with someone that has lots of experience.
I also think you and Rex Kreuger should have a good chat, he doesn’t understand construction very well but has a vault of old knowledge I’m sure you’d appreciate
8:50 Pine just makes a great bench AND, since it’s often SOFTER than the woods I work with, my bench won’t dent my workpieces. In stead, my work dents my bench…and I can swell that out.
Well dude, I really dig on your videos, keep ’em coming. All the best from the UK
Hillarious that the whisky makes this video more and more entertaining the longer into the video we get😂
Excellent advice. Thx.
Any tips for putting bench dog holes in? I do not have any currently and keep finding myself needed them while working on projects.
All great tips and view on the woodworking as a whole. My bench was also salvaged material lower frame was from scrap laminated structural beams, hard on the tools but has held up well for also 10 years
Ya know, I really appreciate the bit about "use materials you can afford; it’s a bloody workbench." Thank you.
tip5 is by far the best one. 🙂
What do you use to sharpen your chisel and plane blades?