just like me this island style workbench ischeap and easy, hi i'm warren from one woodand were going to be making this cheap islandstyle workbench, this probably cost a little over $100 in materials and you can knock itout in a weekend the joinery is nice and simple so a lot ofthe time your first project when you are a woodworker is a workbench, you might not needsomething as big as this probably half the size of this would do the job for most peoplethis things got a fair amount of weight on it, its pretty big so lets hook into it. first thing we need to do is cut 8 legs 800mmlong ill setup my stop block so each cut will be exactly the same i dont have to worry aboutmeasuring each one.
for the joinery i am going to be using a kreghd pocket hole jig, this ones designed for using on larger lumber rather than the smallerpocket hole jigs they make its a pretty simple thing you just clamp it on clamp it on likeso. and where done 2 holes then we just get anotherlittle screw drive it in like that and all done. to secure the top to the frame im going touse pocket holes using the normal kreg pocket hole jig.so well just put a few holes in alongthese pieces here. next were going to use the table saw to cutsome slots in the timbers for our little dividing wall the end were going to cut towards theend so if i want to clamp ive got a little
bit of real estate for the centre dividerswe will just cut down the middle, so adjust this in case im not exactly in the middlewhat were going to do put a little cross on the side that goes against the fence so ifim a little bit out at least we will be a little bit out all in one direction. now were read to start assembly, because wehave used pocket holes this will come together really really quickly if you haven't useda kreg pocket hole jig before there highly recommended so all we need to do that youcan see we have got our holes here we just need to clamp here clamp it together grabthe screw and thats it and thats all we to do and thats a really strong joint that willlast quiet well.
now who spotted what i did wrong there canyou see it have a look can you see it let me show you i let the good rug get in theshot with my wood on it so i don't scratch my wood dead man walking when the boss seesthat. um just for this workbench im building i justhad trouble getting the legs perfectly square so what i did a whopping big hunk of triangledrilled a few holes in it cut some notches in it and its been able to hold things perfectlysquare for me all we do is just sit the leg where we want it line it up then just grabthese little fence clamps they just go straight in the hole screw it in and thats perfectlysquare in this plane as well as this plane because its nice and thick it just there itdoesn't wobble or anything so its nice and
easy to setup i think i will be using it quieta bit and then i also cut a couple of notches so i can also you know clamp it for some extrasupport or if i've got to inset it theres a little bit more reach then we can just reacharound the back knock it in and its done, what can we call it it needs a name the ultimatetriangle of squareness that will do. im just going to add some soft feet so weslide it around on the floor just like a nylon thing that make it easier just need a t nutand thats it. so i've made 2 boxes here so um with largerprojects its normally easier to do it in like a modular design so if you even look at yourkitchen cupboards and big things like that there just a series of little boxes and youput them all together so all done we've go
2 boxes and we will just put these in andscrew the top on and we'll be done in about 10 minutes. you don't have to use pocket holes to buildthis bench you can use use simple joinery like i've done with this bench here i builtthis years ago still going really strong its never moved and i don't think it ever willall you do is just have your upright place your rail across there 4 screws just drilland the wood doesn't split ad then for your side pieces just place that along there sameagain 4 screws and you can see you secured in lots of different spots and that will nevermove. okay the next thing is i've drawn a grid overthe whole table which is 150mm spacings you
can do whatever yo want that what i like andthen were going to drill some 19mm holes the the dog holes push devices like this in clampvarious things to the surface of the table makes your life very easy. you ever hear that expression a good lurecatches more fisherman then fish well for woodworkers its these things router bits ihave more router bits than i know what to do with but um when you are first startingout you don't need to many i think these three bits will get you through most of what everyou need to do and i probably still do 80% of what i do the first one is a um flush trimbit which use which has a little ball bearing there and this ball bearing will ride alonga pattern or edge of a workbench and trim
it flush with anything so its good if youare making patterns stuff like that. the next one is a chamfer bit which will just put a45 degree chamfer around your edge and thats all you need for that one and then a roundover bit which is the same sort of thing it will just put a round over edge across yourworkbench or whatever you are doing so i'm just going to use this to soften the edgeof the workbench. thanks for watching and i hope we have doneenough to earn your subscription so please subscribe to the links below we've also gotfree plans in sketchup form you can download i will put a link to that at the bottom ofthis page as well and if you want to learn more about sketch a great place to go is jayscustom creations check out his youtube channel
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