Simple sturdy workbench build
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Published 2013-01-13
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All Comments (21)
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It's nice to see simple wood craft by Matthias. Not everybody has all the tools and convient places to work. The sturdiness of his work is what makes a large following for his videos. Thanks Mr. Wandel.
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You build yours your way, I build mine my way. Strength of this bench is not an issue - it's more than strong enough. But this one is much simpler to build.
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I've watched a number of videos recently on how to build a workbench because I don't have one. Most of those videos featured the workbench being built on a...
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A man that wears moccasins has to be good. I wear them, and in my younger days I worked a lot like you. As a matter of fact, I enjoy watching your videos because they remind me of how I used to do woodworking in my basement using hand tools and home made table saws, jigs and fixtures. Only, I didn't have youtube at the time. I am now retired and I toned down my working to scrollsawing and sewing. Thanks for the memories!
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Cool- watched this 3 times...went and purchased 2 x 6 lumber- oak 1/2" dowels. AND 4 good heavy duty locking urethane wheels. In less than 4 hours I have a rolling frame...VERY sturdy. Adding a top soon. THANKS!
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What I love about your show is that you used simple and not-so-expensive tools to make things so good. I love it. Thank you!
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Now see, this is actually useful for the average person. You watch some of these home improvement shows on PBS and, while entertaining, they're always using these expensive, exotic tools that the average person would never have or could never afford.
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You can now turn on captions in Spanish for this video! Thanks Sergio for providing these
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you just cant beat Matthias in combining practicality and rigidity in such a low cost
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Re-watched this today and it is still excellent. I like your simplistic approach showing newbies what can be done with very few tools. The best advice, and where most rookies would fail, is not to use screws into the end grain !
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Matthias, you are a great instructor! Thank you so much for taking the time to show how this is made and what to use. I think your projects for the "poor man carpenter" are much more appreciated. I work a a millwright shop and use your videos to assist in my learning. Never think that your videos are fallen on deaf ears or not appreciated. I appreciate your knowledge and expertise very much. Thank you again.
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I have watched several of your videos. You are a smart guy, you plan it out, take your time and then put it to together. And when you do something you do it very well.This is a Great Video. I liked the saw guide you made that was cool.
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Hey Mattius. I know you did this video a long time ago, but wanted to say thank you. Thanks to this video I built myself my first ever woodworking project, a table for me to put in my shed. It took me way longer than I'd like to admit, and I had to borrow half the tools. But I did it! Thanks again. Love your videos. Plan on making many more of your designs!
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Thanks for building this with minimal tools... I just built it with pretty much the same set. Much better than the screwed together abomination I had been using. The jump sit test turns out to be more painful than I had thought, but the bench didn't budge so it was worth it.
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"$15 worth of lumber" 2021: lol that's cute
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Thank you Matthias for all your videos!!. If I have time I´ll translate more videos.
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I wasn't in a hurry, but I built it in an afternoon, including filming. Filming adds a LOT of time.
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I find it cool these videos that show that you can build stuff without having to have big machines like table saws an stuff, I have just a circular saw and a hand drill, so I think I can build this! Especially cool was the technique you used to make the dado cut, that was nice! gonna try it
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Hi Matthias, I wanted to thank you for posting your video. I'm not much of a carpenter, but after watching this video a few times I went out and bought all the material needed to make my own workbench. After about four hours mine was a clone of the one you made except I used a counter top for the work surface. I found the project easy and lot of fun to do. Thanks for your help!
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How fabulous, Matthias! You achieve the maximum with minimum resources. The dados you cut make a huge improvement to the strength of the bench. Thank you, and keep up the good work. You are an inspiration!
