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[Just Say Moe]

I would love to have that much counter space. Looking good!

 

[Sandstorm]

Just recently caught this work bench on sale at H F.

Bill...I think half the folks on AS Forum seem to have one of them benches...me included.
They do work well in confined spaces. I like the one I got, and the price was right.

 

[TheOtherZilla]

Very nice no doubt.

A fellow guitarist I see.

 

[M-61]

Didn't want to Hi-jack the other load room thread, so here's where I was and where I am. Need to find a couple of young bucks to haul my countertop

How thick and what material is bench top?

 

[Bill Norris]

A fellow guitarist I see.

Yes Sir pulled the strings on that old Jazz bass for around 40 years.

 

[JEFFPPC]

2x splash on the back with 3.5" deck screw to studs or redhead into concrete. The trick with a press is to keep the bench attached to the wall. My work and reloading bench, made of double 2x12s has a 2x8 back splash, glued and screwed onto the back then attached to the walls, plural. I have 50 boxes with doors and drawers to keep the dust out. Pipe clamps work well, and can be leveled on the concrete floor.
You can take one board at a time down to the basement that way. May be late right now, but assembly on your own does require planning. A 1x2 between 2x12s with the back splash gives the over hang at the front.

This is 1/2 of one room. there are four rooms with five sets of cabinets and tops.
The window looks dow the 250 meter rifle range w a 15ft high berm. Just a set of ideas.

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Mamn, that's way too neat. Really, you can tell us, that's a showroom set up. LOL

 

[TheOtherZilla]

Yes Sir pulled the strings on that old Jazz bass for around 40 years.

Arthritis killed my playing. Gave my son my 52 Gibson 125, and my 62 Strat. My rock star days are over.

 

[TheOtherZilla]

How thick and what material is bench top?

It's a counter top from Home Depot. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Hampton...tegrated-Backsplash-011312010695037/315626719

 

[Explorer1]

It was a PIA but while in KY I located some old bowling alley lane wood. Heavy, hard to handle and cut, but the end result was great.
Then I moved back to the Left Coast
Home Depot counter top is what I am using today.

 

[linebaugh]

2x splash on the back with 3.5" deck screw to studs or redhead into concrete. The trick with a press is to keep the bench attached to the wall. My work and reloading bench, made of double 2x12s has a 2x8 back splash, glued and screwed onto the back then attached to the walls, plural. I have 50 boxes with doors and drawers to keep the dust out. Pipe clamps work well, and can be leveled on the concrete floor.
You can take one board at a time down to the basement that way. May be late right now, but assembly on your own does require planning. A 1x2 between 2x12s with the back splash gives the over hang at the front.

This is 1/2 of one room. there are four rooms with five sets of cabinets and tops.
The window looks dow the 250 meter rifle range w a 15ft high berm. Just a set of ideas.

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THAT IS FRICKEN AWESOME! Beyond jealous

 

[powderbrake]

2x splash on the back with 3.5" deck screw to studs or redhead into concrete. The trick with a press is to keep the bench attached to the wall.

I agree, and have been doing it whenever I build a reloading bench or workbench. DEAD SOLID.

 

[Bill Norris]

Arthritis killed my playing. Gave my son my 52 Gibson 125, and my 62 Strat. My rock star days are over.

Im still able to play but got burned out running up and down the road. No more traveling for me.

 

[Bill Norris]

Bill...I think half the folks on AS Forum seem to have one of them benches...me included.
They do work well in confined spaces. I like the one I got, and the price was right.

Yea, I don't have any wall space left but I'm comfortable with it out in the floor. Sure did free up lots of space in my red box and cabinet under the corner work bench.

 

[divingin]

Just recently caught this work bench on sale at H F.

I have the same bench, bought second-hand from someone cleaning out their garage. Removed the wood vise on on the right, and bolted a Hornady AP to one side and a single stage to the right. I haven't added a second shelf, as I use the original one for storing 2 or 3 gallon buckets of brass. I find it works pretty well (plus you get the occasional treasure hunt when a cartridge or bullet or piece of brass falls through one of the dowel holes.)

 

[Bill Norris]

Bill...I think half the folks on AS Forum seem to have one of them benches...me included.
They do work well in confined spaces. I like the one I got, and the price was right.

Messing round in the mancave today and decided to try my hand at putting together a set of homemade no-marr vise jaw covers from some left-over scraps for the bench. Found some 1/4" thick felt pads at Lowes and cut to fit to finish it off.

 

[Sandstorm]

Bill you can get some half inch round stock and cut to fit on the holes in the top.
I filled all mine for a couple bucks and some Elmers wood glue. just cut them off flush with the top.
Pound them in with some glue and your done. Looks like it came that way after a little sand paper,
and i mean a little....like a after though.

 

[Bill Norris]

Yea I thought about filling them in but decided to wait and see if I might need them later on.

 

[DShortt]

I can get leather gloves for free. I remove the original jaws and make a duplicate set from White Oak. Then staple covers cut from the gloves over the duplicate jaws.

Works for me.

 

[Tangent]

Yea I thought about filling them in but decided to wait and see if I might need them later on.

I'd do exactly the same. That's the reason I have to have a clear out every so often of stuff I've saved, just in case it comes in handy!