The tiny shop chronicles: #4: Shrink the workbench
Shrink the workbench (if you can call it that, it more a table top right now) OK no lynching, it is not an actual proper workbench! ;-) Sounds counterintuitive, but it is actually too big for a tiny shop. It is there only because I reused what I had without any changes. I recycle this from the time I made concrete countertops for the kitchen. This one and a few more held the molds where the concrete was curing before being moved and installed into the kitchen. Fundamentally a sheet of ¾ inch ply, re-enforced sitting on sawhorses. It was sturdy enough for the 2.5 inch x 24” x 8 ‘ slab of concrete but surprisingly, not for woodworking. It’s too light and bounces when trying to do stu...














