Wooden workbench suggestions

[slowmotion]

I just got a pub style bench delivered from them the other day, good quality for the price.

It looks pretty much ideal for bike-related stuff. There's no point in buying an immaculate solid beech worktop if it's going to get slathered in grease and road crap. A laminate surface should be fine.

 

[gavroche]

I made my own bespoke one. The only trouble is, the ceiling in my cellar is quite low and , when I forget, I keep banging my head on one of the beams.
Many swear words have been said, both French or English, depending on the intensity of the knock on my head.

 

[rogerzilla]

Workbenches should be beech (hard and dense) but it is expensive.

I wouldn't buy from Oak Furnitureland due to concerns that I might be buying part of the Amazon rainforest. This is deeply unconvincing:

https://www.oakfurnitureland.co.uk/page/sourcing-annual-report.html

WWF gave them zero for sustainability

 

[Tail End Charlie]

A bit late to the party, but I'd just get some 4x2, make a frame and mount a kitchen worktop on it. It's what I did and I used a 3m worktop, gives loads of space, vice one end, bike support the other.

 

[Profpointy]

Workbenches should be beech (hard and dense) but it is expensive.

I wouldn't buy from Oak Furnitureland due to concerns that I might be buying part of the Amazon rainforest. This is deeply unconvincing:

https://www.oakfurnitureland.co.uk/page/sourcing-annual-report.html

WWF gave them zero for sustainability

Whilst I 've not read the link, surely oak doesn't grow in the Amazon, whatever the failings of said shop

 

[Andy in Germany]

I use a beechwood bench from Ulmia, fortunately I was able to get it from a colleague who had shut up his carpentry business.

Depending on your budget, you could try the Dictum shop, which is where most craftspersons in Germany go. Be warned though, that's a dangerous website...

On the other direction Paul Sellers has tutorials on all things woodwork and includes one on how to make a workbench from scratch using builders pine from a timber yard. Mindful that many people assume you already have a workbench he deliberately shows a method where you can start with rough cut pine and work on a trestle in the garden. I think he's since made a tutorial on how to make a trestle without a workbench.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

I use a beechwood bench from Ulmia, fortunately I was able to get it from a colleague who had shut up his carpentry business.

Depending on your budget, you could try the Dictum shop, which is where most craftspersons in Germany go. Be warned though, that's a dangerous website...

On the other direction Paul Sellers has tutorials on all things woodwork and includes one on how to make a workbench from scratch using builders pine from a timber yard. Mindful that many people assume you already have a workbench he deliberately shows a method where you can start with rough cut pine and work on a trestle in the garden. I think he's since made a tutorial on how to make a trestle without a workbench.

Paul Sellers is indeed very good. The most important thing for a bench is stability, then it depends on what you're using it for. A woodworker ideally needs to be able to get all the way round it and for it to have a sacrificial top. For us, mere bike fettlers, things are different, but softwood 4x2 would be fine.

 

[furball]

I think this is the best I have found so far just waiting for a couple of answers

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/272063817672

The top looks like a cheap laminate kitchen worktop. Basically chipboard therefore prone to damage from blows.

 

[Profpointy]

I use a beechwood bench from Ulmia, fortunately I was able to get it from a colleague who had shut up his carpentry business.

Depending on your budget, you could try the Dictum shop, which is where most craftspersons in Germany go. Be warned though, that's a dangerous website...

On the other direction Paul Sellers has tutorials on all things woodwork and includes one on how to make a workbench from scratch using builders pine from a timber yard. Mindful that many people assume you already have a workbench he deliberately shows a method where you can start with rough cut pine and work on a trestle in the garden. I think he's since made a tutorial on how to make a trestle without a workbench.

Paul Sellers does a video where he speaks to the camera and quite casually planes a rough piece of sawn wood maybe four foot by one into a perfect flat surface in about 5 minutes. It's clearly dead easy ! Of course, if any of us tried it, it isn't easy at all - but he's been doing it for 50 years and is extremely good at it.

 

[Andy in Germany]

The top looks like a cheap laminate kitchen worktop. Basically chipboard therefore prone to damage from blows.

And soaked in formaldehyde. Lovely stuff...

 

[Andy in Germany]

Paul Sellers does a video where he speaks to the camera and quite casually planes a rough piece of sawn wood maybe four foot by one into a perfect flat surface in about 5 minutes. It's clearly dead easy ! Of course, if any of us tried it, it isn't easy at all - but he's been doing it for 50 years and is extremely good at it.

I know, it's astonishing to watch, he makes beautiful dovetails in seconds as well, it's quite depressing.

On the other hand, I use his method for sharpening chisels and plane blades and it's faster and more effective than what I was taught in college...

 

[biggs682]

Well a local carpentry company has been in touch so have given them an idea of what I want so will see what they come back with .

Had another reply from a local wood and hand made furniture supplier and they were not interested at all , but did volunteer to help in the future if we needed a new kitchen

 

[Mr Celine]

DIY, constructed over twenty years ago from scrap wood and chipboard -

And when not in use it's flipped out of the way to allow access to the freezer -

 

[stephec]

DIY, constructed over twenty years ago from scrap wood and chipboard -

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And when not in use it's flipped out of the way to allow access to the freezer -

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I like the way you keep your porn pictures hidden under there as well. 😂

 

[slowmotion]

If the bench is for bike stuff, what exactly are the brutal operations that require it to be extra sturdy? If you are chopping out mortice and tenons in hardwood, I can see that you don't want the workpiece to wander off when you smack it hard...…..but fiddling about with a bike....????????