So I know that I have posted anything on my brewing adventures as of yet. Believe me they are coming, I had a batch that I brewed sitting for a few weeks. But it seems that the yeast has not done it’s job. So I will explain this in the next post.
As for this post, you guys know what is going on right now. I’m going crazy trying to get all my stuff together to make a few pieces for a furniture show. So first things first, I needed a bench to work on. I contemplated buying one from Lie Nielsen or Lee Valley or even Laguna. But if you follow tthe links you will see that these benches are not cheap. Not that I want a cheap bench, but I don’t know how long that I’m going to be in this workshop, let alone Philadelphia. So I needed something that is flexible, something that I can take down and take with me when I need to.
So I headed over to the local Borg. There I picked up nine 8 foot 2×4′s a sheet of 3/4 inch MDF a box of screws and 2 packs of saw horse hinges.
So first I made the saw horses themselves. Just a few cuts on the 2 x 4′s and they slide right into the legs. Then I jointed the top rail piece of the horses, to ensure that the top of the bench would sit flat on the saw horse. I assembled those and realized that the these hinges don’t really keep the saw horses together. So you will notice that in the picture I wedged a 2 x 4 inbetween each leg to ensure that they hinges are biting really well into the top pieces.
I then proceeded to joint one edge on each 2 x 4 and rip the other edge, to make sure that they were flat. I had a full 4 x 8 sheet of MDF, so I cut off 12 inches and made a 3 x 8 bench top. But the MDF flexed to much so I had to brace it. So I decided to build a torsion box like thing? With the torsion like structure underneath, the top is rock solid. Then all that was left was to put the top on the horses and there we have it. I nice strudy and flat bench. Now I know it’s not the bench on anyones dreams. But with 3 weeks to try and build 6 pieces of furniture, I need something cheap, strudy and quick. This was my solution, what have you guys done?
