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Finally cleared out one side of garage. Since I hear the thing you need most is a workbench, even if what you want to build is a workbench… I built this twisted bastard from salvaged wood. I figured just a wood vise and surface would be a great help. I was correct.

Top is a salvaged laminate kitchen island with oak Band. The legs and oak pieces on dudes are salvaged pallet runners. The yellow pine 2×4 are salvaged from roof trusses. Vise wood are scrap from local cabinet shop, while the vise itself was restored after I picked up at an estate sale.

I named it "the savage". Not perfectly square and the top is skewed slightly from the base clockwise a few degrees since the wood wasn't perfect. Finished with linseed oil and tge vise Jaws a in friction wax. Definitely not furniature grade but it works.

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sorry sideways is bad but upside down just doesnt work for me!
 

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My gawd, that bench sticks to the ceiling! How do you work that way?
 

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Ah, much better.

That is a bear of a vise, Nate. And the Savage looks like a very serviceable first bench. Congrats on completion!
 

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better,thanks cricket.
 

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I'd be honored to have that in my garage. I have no bench at all. Well I have a wall bench that has a sink in it, but definitely not something I could pound on. I'd say "Well done!"
 
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