How to make a convenient joiner's workbench with your own hands?

Lovers of woodwork know how to comfortably equipped workplace. Make a workbench with your own hands, and this problem will be solved forever. A reliable and stable table, the necessary tools, conveniently located on a vertical stand - that's the dream of every carpenter.

You are very lucky if you have free space that you can equip for a workshop. For those who are constrained in additional meters, you can advise to assemble a folding workbench with your own hands. This mobile, but at the same time reliable construction will allow you to use it in an apartment, a garage or at the cottage. Having disassembled into several basic elements, you calmly place the workbench in the trunk of your car. Let's look at how to make a joiner's bench with your own hands.

Any table consists of several parts: the base and the countertop. In this case, we use as the basis three wooden frames, fastened with the help of loops. The dimensions of the desktop and each element of the design you must choose yourself, focusing on the available space and your needs.

Before you make a workbench with your own hands, you must separately collect each element of the structure. We need two side frames of a small size, one transverse frame and a table top. We begin to make the table with small elements.

Each frame consists of two longitudinal and two transverse planks joined to each other by butt-end with corrugated keys. The junction points are reinforced with plywood pads, planted on the joiner's glue and screwed in several places on the screws. The length of the middle frame in most cases exceeds one and a half meters. Therefore, it must be strengthened with two struts. The crossbar is located strictly perpendicular to the side frames and fixed to the metal loops with the help of screws. The finished base structure should be easy to fold.

Now we are making the table top. We need two sheets of plywood 12 mm thick, which we glue together. It is also necessary to prepare the bar, from which we will make a frame for the countertop. With its help, the working surface will tightly fix the structure of the base and will enable you to assemble or disassemble the workbench with your own hands if necessary. To find out the exact dimensions of the countertop, you need to measure the length and width of the finished base, then add width to each side. We cut out the working surface of the table and make edging from the beam on its lower surface.

After all the elements are done, we can assemble the workbench with our own hands. To do this, lay out and install the base. Arranging the table top with the bars down, we plant it, fixing the structure well from the frames. Now we screw the clamps in the right place and make them with pleasure.

If you are building a workbench with your own hands on a permanent place, then equip it with a specialized stand and several shelves to store the necessary tool. It's much more convenient to work when everything is at hand, and you do not waste time searching for the right hammer or screwdriver.

The corner of the room next to the bench we use for fixing the corner shelves, on which will be stored screwdrivers, nail files and jars with nails, screws and bolts. How to make them? Very simple. From a plywood or chipboard we cut out a rectangular shelf with one rounded corner. We prepare two bars. They will serve as a backup. You can use the trimmings, which is left from your crafts. If the bars are small, then you can use three or four pieces.

In the surface of the shelf, drill several holes of the correct diameter for the screwdrivers, placing them along the rounded edge. On the wall we draw lines, marking the location of the shelf. We fix the bars to the wall. Evenly distribute them along the entire length and width of the shelf. We put the workpiece from the plywood over the prepared bases, tightly pressing it against the walls. We fasten the shelf to the bars with the help of long self-tapping screws. In the pre-made holes we insert screwdrivers. Banks with nails and screws set on the shelf, placing them along the wall.