Thank you so much! We bought a house a couple years ago. It’s surprised me how much stuff like this I’m wanting to do, now that I have a “permanent” place to keep it and a space to make my own.

That’s a great idea! This big one stays pretty much permanently there, but I’ve been thinking of building a few small tables for some smaller tools. Would be nice to have wheels to scoot em around the garage.

I can run my mini lathe clamped to a 3x7 plywood table on swivel casters. this thing should handle it no problem

Thank you! I used some small corner braces to attach it, figured it just needed to stay put horizontally. Anchored it better than I thought, though I did use about 20 little braces down there…and had about 20 splinters in my back from that cheaper plywood on the bottom shelf.

I ended up just screwing the bottom shelf on around the edge and a couple in the middle. Doesn’t vibrate at all!

Thank you! Happy with how it turned out.

Funny you say that, I was fooling around with a resin/wood combo mushroom and accidentally ended up with this. Friends keep asking me if I’ve made anymore buttplugs…

2x4 can be cut by any circular saw or chop saw in one pass. 4x4 is usually just a bit too big for a standard saws, so it's just mildly annoying vs doubling up 2x4s.

Ease of construction is the answer. The lower shelf rests all of its weight on the shorter leg portion 2x4 making a kind of faux half lap joint. If they used one chunk of wood for the leg instead of three pieces they would have to remove the material where the shelf nests into the leg which would take more time and complexity to the work.

A guy at work, who sometimes takes his own path through the English language, pronounces it lath-ee. It’s ruined me, can only think about “lath-ee-ing” when I’m out there messing with it.

Just sharing in case you find it useful, but these are the plans I used on my first workbench.

Final product had a few tweaks but was mostly as-written (I made it four inches taller, used trim screws on the trim, and finished with polyurethane).

I checked out a few designs and built my own from those ideas. Used some 3d software to build it there first, mainly so I could make sure I didn’t do anything stupid.

Need to add a vice still but figure it’s mostly done, though I’m already running out of room now. Why? You have some ideas?

nothing? mine does that if you mean bents back that far.