Woodworking Easy to Build: started

Ive been watching a lot of episodes of The New Yankee Workshop on YouTube lately and one of my favorites is their woodworking workbench. I found a hardcover copy of the 1st season of NYW book on eBay for a good price. Norm said that the project can be made with 6 - 2x4s so I bought 7. I made one mistake in my cuts and had to redo one 17" board that somehow came out 16.75" and still managed to use only 6 - 2x4s. I am also shooting video on this project so I didnt take as many pictures as I normally would have.

Its Norm!

This is the goal for my workbench to look like.

My wife got me this dado set for christmas. I cant find anywhere to buy new plates for my table saw so I

am in the process of making one out of hardboard.

The new plate for the dado set is almost done.

The plan called for 6 - 2x4s so I bought 7.

Time to make some cuts.

These are all the pieces cut for the frame of the workbench.

Even with my one screwup this is all I had left for scraps.

These are all the pieces laid out. Rabbits and dados are next!

New project started a modified version of a 5 board bench!

I started a new project this weekend. My sister asked me to make her a bench so I did some searching and decided to make a modified version of a 5 board bench. Here are a couple pictures of it held together with clamps. Look for a full build post coming soon!

My first workbench

I was going through some files on my computer and found a couple of pictures from when I built my first workbench a couple of years ago. I only had a cordless circular saw and a cordless drill at the time and it was my excuse to buy a mitre saw. I had zero woodworking experience and was determined to over engineer the hell out of it. I think that I used 13 - 2x4s on that one bench. Each leg is made out of 2 pieces of 2x4 that are screwed together in an L shape. I notched each one at the top and bottom by making a bunch of horizontal cuts with the circular saw and then cleaning them out with a chisel.

I live in Southern California and during the next earthquake I plan on hiding in there.

I had to redo the drawer twice before it worked right.

This when I first put that shelf in.

I have added lights under the shelf, moved the sprinkler timer, and added pegboard to the back wall and this is what it looks like now.

Woodworking Easy to Build

I started a new project a Lego travel case!

The New Yankee Workshop workbench build has started!

New project started a modified version of a 5 board bench!

My first workbench

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