Reply by renners

I always referred to it as a ‘well’.

The one on my bench is known as ‘the well from hell’, I regret building it into my otherwise perfect-for-what-I-want-it-for-bench, as it’s a magnet for sawdust, chips, loose odds and ends, screws, nails and other workshop detritus.

I have even made some pencil boxes to sit flush to the top within the well to try and tame it.

-- Do or do not, there is no try