Modern Plywood WORKBENCH

A truly useful woodworking bench serves a lot of needs. It secures all kinds of workpieces for operations ranging from rough stock prep to detailed handwork. It offers a flat planing and assembly surface, and provides a suitable platform for a wide variety of hand and power tool operations.

As an instructor at Making Whole (see page 4), I share space with a bunch of fellow woodworkers, mostly novices, who’ve become enamoured by my European-style joiner’s bench, despite the fact that we have plenty of other benches and work surfaces. To keep what’s left of my sanity, it was time to build a similar bench with even better work-holding capabilities. We designed our new bench so that it could be built by budding woodworkers like my junior colleagues. Thus began a collaboration