okay so now that we have got base put togetherpretty much. what we can do is start working on the top and i recommend instead of usingyour plans to build the top, you use the dimensions that you find on the base, because sometimesit will vary a little bit from what you planned out. so we can take those dimensions off thebase transfer them on to here and we will know we will get an exact fit. so what i have done here is i have slicedoff rough cut piece of this plywood. it is 3/4 inch. you don’t actually need to use3/4 for this project. 5/8th would be fine. this has happened to be what my lumber supplyhad on hand. so what i am going to do is i am going to rip this to its final dimensionusing the table saw and this very warped piece
of cherry as a guide. so i have marked off my point here that willhave little final dimension for the width which is 30 and 3/4. so because i am usingthe skill saw i might need to back away 5 inches and 1/8th to get the cut that i needwhile using the guide. so i am going to go ahead and do that now. i have got those marked off as 5-1/8th inchesfrom my final dimension and i am just going to clamp down my guide and then from therei am actually going to clamp down the work piece as well. because this is kind of bigand it will skate around a little bit, if you don’t clamp it down. i will use oneof my pipe clamps and keep everything honest
and then i am using locking casters on thebench here so we will sure those are all locked on and that way the table won't skate around. so everything is pretty secure when you useskill saw. and that should give you with that guide that should give you a nice straightclean cut. okay so what i want to do now is just demonstrate how i will attach the topto the base using this little piece of scrap. essentially first step is we want to drillour pilot holes along the edge of the table, very straightforward there. first thing youwant to do is you are going to mark off 3/8th of an inch from the distance of the edge thatis about half way of the thickness of the pine will be attaching to on the base.
so let me do that. so i am going to drillall the way through with my smaller dimension drill bit it is the first step in the processand then a little bit different move from when we were attaching the stretchers andthe legs together. we will actually countersink a hole. we are going to drill a shallow holeso we can bury the head of the screw into the top that way it won't scratch anythingonce you get your projects on here and when the bench is done it won't scratch them upthen the screw will be out of the way. so there is a couple of ways to do that. youcan actually buy drill bits that have the countersinking and the pilot hole all in one.i have them somewhere and lost them. so i am going to use the low tech approach whichis basically drilling everything twice. i
am using these little drill stop collars whichare great i have them for all different sizes and basically if you can see that at home. i have attached this one so just above, givesabout a 1/4 inch or so into the wood and will give me a nice consistent depth for all theholes because one thing that happens when you are starting out is if you don't use thedrill stop what you are very likely to go with one or more of these holes, is you aregoing to drill away further than you like and it is just going to be annoying. so thatkeeps you consistent. there is not much to it really you are justfollowing the pilot hole using that first hole as the guide to put the rest to countersink this in and that is it. that will bury
the screw in that pretty good, i will attachthis piece and this piece of scrap to another piece of scrap just you can see how it allcomes together. so that will hold the top to the base securelyand we will never have to worry about that now that screw or scratch anything up. so the next step of building of our benchis we want to attach our wheels to the base of the project. i have got these little kindsof wheel bases i put together. they are just 3/4 inch stock, 3 inches x 4 inches that willmatch the base of the casters and what i going to do is figure out a way to attach them tothe bottom of our legs and then also attach the wheels.
this is kind of what i came up with. so iknow i have got the right dimension here for the actual metal portion of wheels. what iam going to do next is take this base. i am just going to kind of eyeball it on the bottomof the leg so i want to get it centered this way as well as that way and if i can get thatpretty close and once i have got it pretty good just by eyeballing i am just going totrace the leg dimension right on to that. i am sure there is a fancy scientific wayto do this exactly but this is good enough for workbench. this way you can hopefullysee that at home. we have got a rough idea of where we can drill our pilot holes andstill get enough stock to hold this in securely. now that i know where i can drill i have gotthis outlined here. i will put my pilot holes
on and i will be using 2-inch screws to holdthe drywall screws to hold this base to the leg so i can make it very secure. so i am not going to - there’s really noscience to this other than you want to sure that it is this far apart as you can to giveit much strength as possible. so those are our pilot holes for the legs. now we can dois drop our wheel right on to top of the centered up nice and then mark for the pilot holeswill be put in around the outer edges and you can use the same drill bit for that becausethe width of the screw is the same for both. to make sure that it didn’t skate aroundon me - nope, that looks good. so now what i can do is first you need to attach the baseto the leg. so, i am going to do is flip this
over because we will need that trace lineon the under side to line this up. so here we go, now i can use that same traceline we just did to get that lined up properly and that looks pretty good. and like i havebeen saying all along, workbenches don't have to be too, too exact. i have switched outmy drill bit and i have got my screw bit in here. so i can just drive these in with thedrill very easily, i should say somewhat easily. okay so i have got as a sample i have drivenin one screw here and now just to show you how this will attach i am going to skip astep and put it right on now and what i am going to do is i am going to use one inchlength drywall screws to attach because we are only using 3/4 inch stock. so if you goinch to quarter that will stick out and you
might snag your pants on it so you might aswell do something that won't get you into trouble later and i have added a couple ofwashers so that now with the washers and the thickness of the steel this screw shouldn’tstick through too far. in fact hardly at all. and i use washers on each of the four andwe will drive those in. i just have to twist the wheel around a bitso that i will get the drill at it. alright and that is the process i came up with forattaching these casters to the legs. we will do three more just like them and we will bedone. okay so they are the steps i take to buildour portable workbench. even if you are new to woodworking this project should take youwell under two hours. i recommend that you
do build two to make yourself a full sizeversion and then this a little smaller tool tray version as well. cost wise you are looking at well under $65for all the stuff you will need and i will actually put the plans for the designs wedid today up on the website pretty shortly, if you are interested in that and thanks forwatching. we will see you next time.