Work Bench Surface

[Catchndreams]

Home Depot, kitchen counter top. ready made. Set it on frame and legs and cut center out for your granite or marble. I have them all over my shop. 2 ft, 4 ft 8 ft long. They clean up nice.

[cowcamp]

After a lil experimenting this is what i came up with ..... table is 4x4 legs and 2x6 joist

top is 7/8 tounge and groove osb 5' 8'. i filled the seam and nail holes with bondo and

then using a 12" knife used regular dry wall mud and layed a skim coat over the whole thing.

sand it down and u get a surface like glass you can draw on. i used lacquer but imagine any poly or

clear coat would work to seal it.

i set a 1/8 " edge above the surface of the table and layed bed liner for trucks "available at

lowest home depot or auto parts store and filled it level to the top of the form. took 3 cans to do it and

the used a piece.of floor trim to make sure it was even across whole table. the result is a

whole.table withal cutting mat it does scar after few months of steady use.

repairs are easy though sand a little and fill with bed liner again.

it took right at 85.00 dollars mostly for the bed liner.

just what works for me.and hope it helps any one needing a.big table

Edited January 15, 2012 by cowcamp

[reddevil76]

This is a nice topic.

I currently have a table with metal frame and legs. Its ok, except that the table surface is laminated plywood.

I am thinking of removing it and replacing it with something else. There are counter tops which I readily buy from IKEA here in Singapore.

Read here that particle board is solid with no bounce. How about solid oak or solid birch? Hope to hear opinions from those who knows their wood.

http://www.ikea.com/sg/en/catalog/categories/departments/kitchen/10472/

[Tree Reaper]

If using solid wood, quarter sawn has the grain coming through the face of the board and would be better for pounding on but it's usually custom cut and more money than plain sawn .

A hardwood like quarter sawn oak would be solid.

How about solid oak or solid birch?

[reddevil76]

If using solid wood, quarter sawn has the grain coming through the face of the board and would be better for pounding on but it's usually custom cut and more money than plain sawn .

A hardwood like quarter sawn oak would be solid.

The funny thing with this IKEA tops is that they say its solid oak, yet I can see the whole thing is formed by joining multiple pieces together. I can imagine the first time i pound on it, the whole thing would go into smitterens...

[oldtimer]

The funny thing with this IKEA tops is that they say its solid oak, yet I can see the whole thing is formed by joining multiple pieces together. I can imagine the first time i pound on it, the whole thing would go into smitterens...

I don´t think it will break pounding on it, as long as you don´t use a heavy sledge hammer.

( swedish quality, you know .... )

/ Knut