I finally finished the work bench, at least so that it’s functional. I still have a couple of tweaks to do, but I can use it even without the tweaks.

In response to an earlier comment, these are the wheels for the bench. The front wheel is in the raised position, out of the way so that the leg of the bench rests on the floor. When the wheel is lowered as on the rear leg, the bench is lifted 3/4″ off the floor so that the bench can be easily moved.

Before I turned the bench right-side-up, I installed a woodworkers vise that I acquired from a friend of my landlord, Heather.

Here are a couple of pictures of the finished bench. The last step before flipping it right-side-up was to add the lower shelf. I had to have Leslie’s help to set in on the floor because it weighs about 150-200 pounds with the laminiated top, cast iron vise and particle board lower shelf. The wheels in both these photos are in the lowered position so that the bench can roll. One of my objectives in building the bench was to be able to roll it behind my table saw to use as an outfeed table–a table that catches large pieces of wood as they come off the saw.

Now the bench is done, I was able to move the sawhorse “workbench” out of the way and straighten out the shop so that it’s more functional.

Leslie was actually the first one to make use of the bench. She has been waiting until it was done to start on a project of her own to restore a craftsman style sideboard she picked up off the web (shown behind the bench in the previous photo).Here she is working on the doors.

I still  have work to do to set up the shop, but I have my drill press on a temporary table so that it’s usable, and I have a band saw and sander on long-term loan from Heather’s dad. I’m still working on modifying my miter saw table to fit my new used miter saw.

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