Building a Traditional, English-Style Workbench

[@WoodsmithShowandmagazine]

You can find the complete step-by-step plans to build this English Workbench here: www.woodsmithplans.com/plan/english-workbench/?apid=36564

[@jeremyghunter]

Do you have some in metric? I don't want to have to pay for plans that I then have to spend an hour converting!

[@WoodsmithShowandmagazine]

@@jeremyghunter _ Unfortunately, we don't have metric plans available for the English Workbench. These are all of the plans we're converted to metric: www.woodsmithplans.com/metric-woodworking-plans/

[@jeremyghunter]

@@WoodsmithShowandmagazine thank you, ironic considering how many of us have now moved away to metric! I may just convert the imperial myself and try sharing, if that's ok.

[@thematey3592]

I like it, sure looks like it will last for generations.

[@Nick-iz9zo]

This bench and design are really growing on me. I have the plans, now I just need to finish up some other projects before I can start this one. I'm thinking of slightly modifying the design and maybe going with a laminate top, or if going with the plank top, adding a piece of MDF underneath for some extra thickness and maybe an end vice... It's fun to dream...

[@David-fv7zg]

I wonder what would happen if you ran this poll now, or even adding additional players

[@RGRGJKK]

I love to see how Made joinery with the old ways methods with power tools is great but môre easy but without real human ability as with hand tools

[@shanewagner85]

Only thing I would add is notching the top inside edge of the bottom stretchers so a lower shelf can be put in

[@cerberus2881]

I own this plan already, just need to get serious and build it. I bought the large screw for the Moravian bench I built last year, Lake Erie Toolworks I believe.

[@JP-mq7pg]

FYI...I'm in the process of building this bench. I've adjusted the build to have a finished height of 35". The original height was to low for me.

[@cerberus2881]

@@JP-mq7pg I built my first bench at 36" knowing I could shorten it, if it proved too high.

[@JP-mq7pg]

@@cerberus2881 always a good approach to build with room to trim.

[@cerberus2881]

@@JP-mq7pg It's all compromise because Lower is better for certain operations, and Higher is better for others. We strive for the Happy Medium.

[@Nick-iz9zo]

​@@JP-mq7pgjust curious how your bench build went? Did you make any modifications to the design? I was thinking when I get around to building it, to maybe add a tool well, a lower shelf, and maybe somehow add a tail or wagon vise with some dog holes

[@mwrcrft]

Cottage kitchens are the new trend and English style workbenches are landing in the middle of them.

[@WoodsmithShowandmagazine]

I would certainly take a workbench in the middle of my kitchen! I don't know how the other members of the household would feel about it though. :)

[@mwrcrft]

@@WoodsmithShowandmagazine We are doing a small remodel and was looking at trends and Shabby chic has morphed into cottage style, less cracked paint but more clear finished antiqued wood,oil,waxed, soap. Several had English benches prominently placed in kitchens and a Nicholson or two but no Roubo. Must be because of Brexit to keep the french out.

[@Realism91]

My goal is to make a beautiful functional workbench as a bar table, just for hand tool stuff for fun, near the broom minimal dust, ideal.

[@seanbrotherton542]

I like the heavy bench builds. I'm mostly a power tool user but would still like to make a solid bench and eventually be a hybrid maker with both power and hand tools. Any suggestions on a bench style?

[@DavidGodwin57]

The old-fashioned way to make a mortice would be to use a Bit and Brace, not a drill press. The old timers would not have used Mortice and Tendon construction braces or if you might say cross pieces were used, Mortice and Tendon would have been too time-consuming and unnecessary for a workbench that you were going to beat the crap out of. If you look at an old used English work bence they are beat up with saw marks, dents, and paint sploches because they were using them for work and not a tea party.

[@vladtepes97]

camera work in all of these WS videos is frustratingly useless. shots should be tight, right up to the work being done, the spots being marked for drilling, the lines being marked for sawing, not on the segment hosts.

[@dc-wp8oc]

Ditto.

[@dc-wp8oc]

Camera work leaves a lot to be desired. Would expect better from this channel.

[@4runnertowchain]

I love the wood smith website. I’m there all the time, but this video was so boring. It was like TV from the 90’s.

[@WoodsmithShowandmagazine]

Say what you want about the Woodsmith Shop, but I cannot just stand by and let you bash classic 90’s tv shows like Home Improvement, Full House, Saved by the Bell, etc! (: