Thread: Feedbacks/ survey for workbench design

Originally Posted by AdamY99

a hitch receiver

so you can tow it around with a car?

Good luck with the project - just remember that this is your 'first' bench. I have built three for myself and another three for other people, just since I retired. And that is not allowing for the extreme modifications needed when I moved into a workshop 30% of the former size - I had to hack off 250 mm to get it into the space and still allow room for a little lathe.
I think it might be wise to focus on what will get you a good HSC result as your first priority. No doubt your survey is part of that (yes I have put in a response). The hard thing about a workbench is that your requirements change over time - as you learn, adapt and take on new projects. I am in the camp that a workbench is a tool not a piece of show furniture. Practicality and adaptability are key.
As a mainly hand tool woodworker (apart from a mild woodturning obsession), I don't think my ideal bench now would be that different to one my Great-grandfather would have used 100 years ago. But that is a very personal thing.
Good luck and enjoy the process. I think if you enjoy it, you will get good marks!

Unless the bench is to be used in a "forever shed" then making the bench to a size that will allow to be moved thru a standard doorway has some merit.
An alternative is to make at least some parts of the bench so's they can be taken apart and reassembled.

Same goes for weight - ie moving a 200+ kg bench around is no fun so wheels or being able to take it apart.