Thread: WIP The Simple Pine Workbench

Bought a bench from Andrew79 of this forum and finally got around to finishing it.

The bench had the legs roughly made up and the tops glued but not finished.

I decided it was easiest to finish the top using a router sled. The router sled was a simple 2 piece particle board cut in half and joined by a couple pieces of pine, the router slides pretty easily on the top, theres nothing stopping the router from cutting into the top, however this setup isn't really re-usable and I will make a simple jig everytime I want to plane a top to suit.

The bench was supported on several pecies of SHS the "rails" were again particle board which was ripped 100mm and identical to each other and sits on the SHS. The slab is free from any rocking motion. The result was pretty good and mostly flat within a mm across the top of the bench, the plane marks were easily removed by sanding with a 80 grit paper on the ROS.

Day 1