Woodworking Bench With Tool Tray

In the past i have shared your ambivalence for the tool tray, and have finally arrived at a point of a conceptually similar but much less elegant solution. btw the video is "must watch" for anyone interested in a high performance hybrid work bench.. I go over the process of how i built the tool tray for my workbench. i talk about how to creat the tounge and groove with both hand tools and a router table.. The bench is made of box store pine (local home depo), i departed from the pans by adding a an extra 5″ behind the tool tray. this will allow me to set a chair on the bench when i am working on it. i also set the bottom of the tool tray into a rabbit and dovetailed boards onto the ends to hide the end grain..

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The well is called a tool tray. the idea is to place the tools you are using in it instead of on the bench so you do not knock them of the bench when moving large planks or furniture on it.. This rock-solid workbench incorporates two vises a laminated top and options for a hanging tool tray or under-bench cabinet< p>

project measures 72 long by 36 deep by 35. Today i finished adding a tool tray to my sjobergs bench. in some of the books that i read on choosing & or building your own woodworking bench, the writers indicated that about half of the people liked tool trays & the other half didn’t..