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THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, July 1, 2010 IMPROVEMENT101 HOME
Mark@HomeAdditionPlus.com HOW TO BUILD A GARAGE WORKBENCH
by Mark Donovan Contributing Writer
If you have a garage, then
you need a garage work- bench. You can either buy an off the shelf workbench from a home improvement store, or you can build your own. In my experi- ence you can build a ga- rage workbench in about an hour that will hold up longer than anything you can buy from a store. Not to mention you can save a few bucks in the process.
Material Required for Your Garage Workbench To build your own ga-
rage workbench you will need six 2x4s, eight feet in length, and a 4’x 8’ sheet of ½ inch plywood. You will also need 2-1/2”, 1-1/4” and 1.0” drywall/decking screws, as well as 4 inch carriage bolts with nuts and washers.
to 6 feet in length. Then trim the two remaining 2”x4”s stubs portions to 21 inches in length. Now lay the 4 pieces on
the garage floor, standing on their narrow end, with the two 21 inch length pieces sitting in-between the two 6 foot pieces. After positioning the pieces in place, such that you create a perfect rectangular band, draw a line with a pencil on the inside seams of the two longer boards. You are de- fining where you will make cuts to create lap joints for the legs. Next, measure 3.5 inches
Basic Garage Workbench Frame – Assembling the garage workbench legs to the top frame assembly.
The Garage Workbench Plan
To begin with you need a basic plan for your garage
workbench. Typically I like to build garage workbench- es that are 6 feet in length and 2 feet in depth. Due to the fact that I am tall, I typ- ically like to have the legs 38 inches in length. Based on your personal height you may want to limit the leg height to 36 inches.
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Cut the Top Frame Piec- To begin building your
garage workbench, start by making the equivalent of a 6’x2’ band constructed out of two 2x4s. This band rep- resents the top framework of your garage workbench. Cut two of the 8’x2”x4”s
inward, from the lines that you previously drew, and make another series of straight lines. Put an X between each pair of lines. You should have two X’s on each 6 foot 2”x4” piece. The spacing between each pair of marks should be 3.5 inches. Now set your table saw
or circular saw to ¾ inches in depth, and make many cuts between each pair of lines. You should make cuts every 1/8th of an inch between the 3.5 inch marks.
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