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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 43422" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Work Bench HelpLots of good input, one common theme is that many people get it wrong their first try...me too. Back in the &#039;70s I made huge 4&#039;x8&#039; tables, and as others have observed most of that surface area just accumulated junk, and you typically work in a much smaller area. Since then I have made more reasonable work benches from preformed counter tops and the like. Back in the old days we needed more depth to accommodate deep oscilloscopes, and/or crt computer monitors, but now with all the short thin stuff, you can probably get away pretty comfortably with typical counter depths. Maybe throw up a simple temporary work surface, and see how you end up using it. After a few months finalize your design based on what you actually need. An old friend of mine swears by building triangular shaped benches that nestle into room corners, to better utilize that usually dead space. I am not as enthusiastic about that plan as he is, but I offer it FYI.JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 43422, member: 126"] Re: Work Bench Help Lots of good input, one common theme is that many people get it wrong their first try...me too. Back in the '70s I made huge 4'x8' tables, and as others have observed most of that surface area just accumulated junk, and you typically work in a much smaller area. Since then I have made more reasonable work benches from preformed counter tops and the like. Back in the old days we needed more depth to accommodate deep oscilloscopes, and/or crt computer monitors, but now with all the short thin stuff, you can probably get away pretty comfortably with typical counter depths. Maybe throw up a simple temporary work surface, and see how you end up using it. After a few months finalize your design based on what you actually need. An old friend of mine swears by building triangular shaped benches that nestle into room corners, to better utilize that usually dead space. I am not as enthusiastic about that plan as he is, but I offer it FYI. JR [/QUOTE]

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