The Bench That Travels: A Fold-Down Workbench Built for a Moving Lifestyle
Ryan moves every three to four years for work. He’s a civil engineer who gets posted to infrastructure projects in different states, and he’s lived in six different […]
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I Built My Grandfather’s Workbench Design – Here’s What I Changed
My grandfather built his workbench sometime in the 1950s from a set of plans he tore out of Popular Mechanics. I found those plans, still folded in his […]
The Community Bench Build: 8 Readers, 8 Approaches, One Challenge
Last spring we put out a challenge: build a new workbench with a $250 budget and a one-month deadline. We expected a handful of responses. We got 47. […]
This Roubo Workbench Took 18 Months – Every Hour Was Worth It
Tom set out to build the bench he’d always wanted. Not the bench he could afford right now, not the bench he could finish in a weekend – […]
Before and After: An Old Hollow-Core Door Becomes a Solid Workbench Top
The before photo is hard to look at. A hollow-core interior door – the kind that sounds like a cardboard box when you knock on it – balanced […]
The $300 Workbench That Outlasted Three Table Saws
Diane built her first real workbench in 1998 with $300 in Douglas fir, a borrowed router, and a weekend of stubborn determination. That bench is still her primary […]
From Scrap Lumber to Dream Workbench: A Weekend Build Story
It started with a pile of construction-grade 2x4s pulled from a dumpster behind a framing job and a weekend with nothing else going on. That’s how Marcus, a […]
How to Build a French Workbench
The French workbench is the gold standard for hand-tool woodworking. Born in the workshops of 18th-century French craftsmen, it features a massive slab top, a leg vise on […]
Build a First Aid Station for the Workshop
Build a First Aid Station for the Workshop Every workshop has a first aid station – or should. A shop without a first aid kit is an accident […]
Shop Tour: The Precision Layout Tool Collection
Shop Tour: The Combination Square and Layout Tool Collection This is a different kind of shop tour – not of a space, but of a collection: the finest […]