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Well here is my workbench that I just finished. I did most of it from various and assorted pallets that I found, many of them included some fine red oak. I painstakingly pulled all of the 100000000000 nails out and cut it all to size. The 4×4 came from underneath my dads old shed. I also put a piece of birch plywood underneath the top for more support. The drawers were from maple plywood from my first ever project a bookshelf. Plus some pine that my nieghbor was throwing away from a remodel. It's 40 inches high (I'm taller and that height is good for me) 50 inches long and 20 inches deep. I'm no.woodworker yet so I'm trying my darnedest. I have seen some fantastically beautiful benches here from gorgeous exotic woods and I hope to have one of those later in life (along with a powermatic table saw). This certainly isn't the prettiest girl at the dance but she tangos well enough for this newbie.

I also want to say thank you to all of you for how welcoming you are to a young guy just having fun and inspire me with the posts of your amazing projects.

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Very nice bench…. the fact you scrounged and re-purposed the wood is awesome

Good job!!!!
 

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Thanks guys. I don't really have the money (newlywed and new homeowner) for the nicer woods yet and there are many free pallets by some of the businesses around here that don't mind giving them away. I figure it's good practice for me until I can move to some nicer wood.
 

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Functional and looks cool to boot…..Nice work Kaleb!!!
 

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I see it too much, guys spend all their money on the exotic stuff. Then there's nothing left to buy lumber for projects. Already your ahead of the game by gaining experience building the bench plus you've added extras which aren't included on most benches for sale.
 

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awesome bench! it looks heavy and solid. This is inline with my budget and it uses old pallets which is just about the only wood i have right now. My current bench is just a shipping pallet with some scrap 4×4 legs screwed to it, this is one of my next shop improvement projects. thanks.
 

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Very nice, I love to recycle wood, you did a great job bringing the old wood back to light for a very good purpose.
Now you show the work you will do on it.
 

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That's a fine start and don't let anyone tell you different. Remember a work bench is for working on. Yeah it's great to see all of the large fancy benches but if your afraid that you might damage the top then it becomes nothing more than a piece of furniture. I say make a larger one when you can and use it just as you would any other tool in your shop. Take care and happy woodworking.
 

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this bench looks great and pallet wood is a great and mostly free source for making things.

even pallet wood, when cleaned up and planed down can look nice and crisp.
 

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great bench,hope you get a lot of use out of it!!!
 

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Great use of recycled lumber. I have used old pallets for projects before, but none turned out this nice and useful.
 

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Time well spent on this project with plenty of valuable lesson learn for a newbie. Over a lifetime you'll have plenty of time to make benches but your first will always be a memorable one and this one came out great. Take a snap shot of it and save it so that one day you can inspire another future jock. Enjoy your new work mate and.all your future projects that will roll off this bench cheers…BC
 

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This is a hard working job!

www.bandsawparts.com
 

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Amazing!
Deeply impressed, perhaps one of the coolest work benches I ever seen, knowing the material.
Respect!
Best thoughts,
Mads
 

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exelent upcycling of the pallets and thought out project
you can be proud of it and call yourself a woodworker
it will serve you well

Dennis
 

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better than mine!
 

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Very impressive build from all recycled lumber, and I appreciate how much work that is. If that's a HF vise on the front, ya probably aren't going to like it (mine racks horribly, but it was cheap!). Can't wait to see what you build on this bench.
 

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I feel you on pulling the nails out.. Especially the pine.. Them nails do not want to come out of the pallets made from pine…

I salvage a lot of pallet lumber and just recently I picked up a pallet that was made almost all out of cherry wood. You can really run into just about any kind of wood in them pallets.

Nice work!
 
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