Thread: First bench build + advice--Attaching Bench top?

Hey all

Recently had our kitchen refitted which left us with a nice thick laminated kitchen bench-top. We also have some 2x4 left over from construction of an extension on the house.

It was decided to set out and build a nice work bench.

I have been researching everywhere to make sure its adequately strong and well built.

Think Ill laminate together some of the 2x4s for the legs, then just make the trestles and attach the stretchers. This part I'm (fairly) okay with, the funny thing is everyone skips how they attach the bench top.

I can screw it into the trestles leaving visible screw heads (can countersink and putty I guess). Most people however seem to put on a sub base of ply. Is this just for strength, then dont mention how they put the final top on the sub-base.

Options I can think of If I have a sub-base are attach sub-base to tressels and drill up from below the SB to attach the kitchen top. Of course I could just glue them together? plenty of surface area and they would both be nice and flat.

So How do most people attach the bench top ( if you don't want to drill down into the trestles and have visible screws)?

Any advice on the build?

Cheers