Narrow Workbenches have a BIG advantage!

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[@borjesvensson8661]

Another advantage of the tool well. You have a place to clamp to even if the bench is up against the wall. Not that big a thing but sometimes it helps

[@Nerdfighter1123]

Just bought the plan. Been thinking about building my first bench for 2 years now, and this feels like perfect bench for my shop. Thank you!

[@tnstef2629]

Been watching Rex for years and finally taking the plunge! Have fun.

[@fortuner123]

Also useful for flower arranging and the coffee machine!

[@joekochinski5591]

I use blue tape on my winding sticks too! I use mdf though for the actual sticks. Cool to see someone else had the same idea

[@ikust007]

You can also throw screws :)) Thanks Rex !

[@fredpierce6097]

Another benefit…… it won’t involve months even years of skill honing ,tool acquisition and bench building research often required to pull off a Trophy Bench….

[@DanVogt]

Great stuff. I don't usually buy plans but you deserve all of the support and compensation for the time, passion and generosity you give to our community, so I bought plans and am happy I did. Also why did you switch into an Australian accent when you said "...video on the description...". Through me off guard! Lol 😂

[@montelott8570]

Another benefit to a narrow top is easily reaching the tool well.

[@thesinfultictac5704]

Ooooo I like it, lookking forward to getting into your book this summer !

[@quncle]

Nowadays, 65 dollars gets you 2 of those 2x4s, and 3 nails.

[@lmrk8441]

I was going to ask him where he's shopping at.

[@presidentjoethudbrandon7074]

My favorite work bench at work is probably 40" tall, 20" wide, as a bar for all my clamps and a raises the work piece 3" more to create a gap under it for tools and clamps. It's about 6' long so I can walk around it easily. For work that requires more elbow grease I use a heavy table with stops built into the top. A bigger table isn't always what you need. Sometimes you just need a good height or some weight to it.

[@douglasbatley1907]

I never liked the idea of having the tool well in the middle. This is much better.

[@Emily-me]

Couldn’t you make a removable piece that would snap in to the other area so you could shift between the two at will.

[@aarms21]

I was literally going to say exactly the same thing!

[@mr.fahrenheit310]

If you have a chair you couod always drop a 2x8 inside of the tool well?

[@Depl0rable10]

I'm not completely sold on this, unless you wanted to plane the 2x8 down the 1/8th of an inch of the base of the tool well, which in that case it would work great but just another thing you need around

[@dandotvid]

@@Depl0rable10 hinge it from the back, just a little flip up and fit into the well.

[@scottjohnson684]

There is also an advantage to planning and using a tape measure. Pause it and zoom in. Pressure treated 2x4's are not generally called "minimal timber" or used by "furniture makers"

[@terencemerritt]

Where you see pressure treated at?

[@supaorigamisensei]

I had something similar ended up having a block that’d sit in the tool well to assist for those projects that ended up in the well as well

[@fyanezc]

How narrow is the bench? What are its general dimensions? Pretty cool bench!

[@marB84]

I really like this workbench, but why does no one use plywood for the top? Either stacked 3/4" or one thick piece. It's flat from te get go so no planning is needed.

[@B_COOPER]

I wouldn’t use plywood for a bench top that will be used for planing, chiseling, sawing etc. Now for an assembly table, absolutely.

[@chriswaters926]

I made one works great. The tool well is well , full of tools

[@kjayisme]

Fyi In the text overlay it says "floor plane" when you say fore plane. Not a problem for me because I know what you're talking about but others might get confused.

[@B_COOPER]

To be fair, fore planes belong in the floor.

[@timapple6586]

Fantastic video!!! Gotta admire a carpenter who wields a plane with authority! But those winding sticks kinda look like wood. If so, are they stabilized with PEG or something? I've heard of woodcarvers soaking burls and turning blanks in antifreeze as a cheaper alternative.

[@winrawrisyou]

If you squared them off after they are dry, it's not a big problem, especially if you choose something nice and stable like clear pine.

[@johnschillo4452]

$65.00 in materials?

[@JR669242]

If i had a tool well it would look like a landscape taken from Wall-E

[@rayrutherford1691]

Would having a piece of wood that fits in the tool well make a difference when making chairs?

[@dlzonwlz]

Can you put subtitles on the bottom of the video? They're really distracting

[@ianpearse4480]

Nice.

[@Sideshowbobx]

Or 200€ with local lumber prices :D

[@alexsnow3319]

If you have managed to continue using an adblocker, KZbin is blocking the description from showing, it seems.

[@TheImmortalTraveller]

You said in another video that you flaten your workbench a couple of times a year, can I ask why is this neccisary? Does it warp over time? I inherited a workbench and its been flat for around ~10 years under light use, whats different?

[@felipecordova6802]

Pensé que iba a cantar Se Me Olvidó

[@zigsrig]

Love your videos but the giant text popping up in the center of it is super annoying!

[@jamesnurgle6368]

it's that still $65 maybe it's my being English coming out but that looks like hundreds XD

[@khartoumist1031]

I wish Rex would dress me down Eh fellas 😅

[@dawabbitt3079]

Headphones set to only 55% - But I scroll down and "THIS is my minimum timber workbench" - I was like "FUCK!" :/

[@SleepLessThan3]

I must be getting alzheimers, I swear this video was uploaded a month ago

[@RexKrueger]

I promise it wasn't. I just shot it. I do a lot of stuff about benches.

[@TadTheTinker]

The video you saw last month did involve this bench I believe. In that video he was talking about the tool well specifically. His tool well is open at the ends to make it easy to clean. Him mentioning this and swiping things off the end reminded me of that video as well. So while he didn't make this video, he did make one similar.

[@SleepLessThan3]

I've been working on a moravian bench this past month, with a custom fabricated crisscross and a bunch of construction lumber

[@BigSteve215]

This is why I generally don't watch his videos, because he thinks it's good that his winding sticks' lengths are the same as the bench width.

[@512banana1]

That right there $65 worth of lumber? I thought 65 could get me a bit more 🥲