| Project by MauBow | posted 1377 days ago | 1311 views | 1 time favorited | 5 comments |  |
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I managed to finally finish a bench I’ve been building for over a year. I couldn’t find anything to make the top out of, at least not in my price range (free). We rearranged a few things in the house recently and needed to downsize the computer desk. I had made it out of an old table and some doors long ago. The table top is made from 1.5” strips of pine…now I have my bench top!
The drawers were salvaged from Drake University when they rehabed some dorms and were giving away built in desks. The rest is just 2X material that I found at building sites. My dad gave me the vice, he found 3 of them when packing up his shop in KS! It’s 46” wide, 28” deep and 38” tall (I like tall benches)
-- If it wasn't for misplacing things, my shop would never get cleaned up.
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patron
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#1 posted 1377 days ago
looks like it does the job ,
and the price is right !
that’s quite the vice ,
looks older than smoking or drinking .
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#2 posted 1377 days ago
It looks like it will work to me, good idea. I like the drawers, I need to build a set like that under my workbench when I find that most elusive of items “time”.
-- Ohh mann...pancakes and boobies...I'll bet that's what Heaven is like! ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣
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#3 posted 1377 days ago
Good bench at a great price.
-- Whether You Think You Can or You Think You Can't, YOU ARE RIGHT!!!
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#4 posted 1377 days ago
That vise is awesome! I love old tools like that since you can’t buy anything good anymore and I think they just look better.
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#5 posted 1370 days ago
that will doer
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