Should I Buy or Build a Workbench?
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- In this video I'll go over my thoughts on whether I should build or buy a woodworking work bench along with the current benches in our shop. We ended up getting two Kreg Jig Universal Benches which looked the best and were relatively affordable. I priced out the materials for a nice traditional workbench with a vice and the price of materials was just over $1000 not including any of my time in building or planning! Let me know down below what you have done recently to upgrade your shop, it's quite difficult to upgrade things especially with lumber prices today!
Items in this video:
Kreg Universal bench legs 31" - amzn.to/3gU2oaG
Kreg Universal bench 64" rails - amzn.to/3nDIAK3
Kreg Universal bench 28" rails - amzn.to/3ucMigi
Kreg Universal bench 20" rails - amzn.to/2PGcsJe
Kreg Universal bench rails 44" - amzn.to/3nAmZ5j
Kreg Universal bench 14" rails - amzn.to/335icPS
Pony Vice - amzn.to/331JRRJ
Universal work bench leg kit - amzn.to/3ucMBaW
Pony Clamps - amzn.to/3e3Gq37
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Awesome. I've was just looking at these for a CNC table. Thanks for the video. Good job.
Thanks! I may get another too for a cnc bench. looks way better than the ones i have lol
I hear you on the pride of making you're own but there seem to never be enough time to make a nice one. This looks like a great alternative 👍🏻
Yeah... these took an afternoon. A nice bench would have taken a week lol
Very cool and great video - the Kreg bench system seems super easy and effective!
Thanks! I’m not sure if there are many competitors in the universal bench space 🤷🏼♂️ I typically don’t make it much further than amazon and rockler 😆
@@TwoMooseDesign Haha yeah if it's not on Amazon I'm just going to have to live without whatever it is
I’m so inspired by your videos! Built all of my work benches and it’s such a humbling experience being newer to woodworking. Especially adding drawers. Would love to see what you have your onefinity router sitting on. I get mine hopefully in less then a month fingers crossed🤞🏼
Thanks for following along we appreciate it! Absolutely you can gain a ton of experience building a work bench especially with a bunch of drawers! I should be starting the onefinity journeyman video this week!
Good to hear your thoughts on both of these. I have built a couple of them, but they can take a lot of time, so if that's not what you're wanting to spend your time on, assembling one might be the way to go!
I’ll make a real nice one one day 😆
Kreg universal benches are awesome. Love the mobility. Kreg wheels are the best ones I have found. Shelves/dividers below are also great way to set them up.
agreed!
Wonderful.. you just convinced me to buy one 😊
Good video. We modified a husky bent his for my dad - I actually bought two butcher block tops from a big box and glued them together for additional weight. It was way cheaper than buying maple, milling it, gluing it, and planing to dead flat. Thanks for the videos….I’d like to see more on finishing techniques in a production scale environment if possible. Nice work.
Oh nice! Good idea and Thanks! I’ll definitely have to do some videos on my work flow
Same. I want to build my own, but have NO time to do it. I need something ready-made that will help my work flow. I just don’t know if what I need exists pre-made.
That’s the biggest issue...the sizes are pretty limited
I built my own. It was free because I have sourced a lot of construction lumber from the trash. The top is made from an epoxy bowling alley slab of heaviness. So if you are patient and don't mind going through trash you can create one relatively cheap.
Nice! That’s awesome 👏🏻
Good video thanks for sharing God bless you and yours.
Thank you! You too!
What you made is exactly what I want
I built my first 2 benches and slapped a bench together for my CNC. I made my router table from a Kreg bench. I really would love to have time to devote to a proper outfeed table and CNC bench but the jobs just keep coming. I'll probably buy another Kreg bench though.
I’m in the same boat lol I may just buy another Kreg bench and slap melinine on it so nothing sticks to it
I have had the plastic legs on my journeyman table for over 1 year now, they work just fine however I prob would get the kreg bench if I did choose again. Lumber is not cheap and it does still require you to build the table to your dimension with the plastic legs which I do like over putting together metal pieces for a certain sized bench, you get to usea few more tools maybe with the plastic legs but both would require cutting.
I haven’t tried the plastic ones, I like the kreg benches. Quick and easy! I’d love to build a traditional bench but I just don’t want to spend that much on lumber or have the time right now
I build my own, or over-build actually. I do half wood work half metal work, so i build them crazy strong. It does cost more but they will last forever.
I would definitely like to spend the time and money and make a big beautiful bench!
Just found your channel...curious why you didn't build a custom work bench. someone once said it would improve your skills and give you something to be super proud of. IMHO, woodworkers/makers should build there own work benches...this way they can customize to their needs....with drawers, cabinets, ect.
I just don’t have time to make one. It would take me a week of planning and building to get it perfect. Until I have time or a desire to make one a universal bench is a great option 🤷🏼♂️ I think people should build a bench if they want to improve their skills or just for a fun project.
Nice video. Going to get this for my CNC. What casters did you use to replace the leveler that comes with the leg kit? Like the color that matches the bench too!
Kreg offers wheels, they are actually better and cheaper than the ones i bought. I didnt know they offered wheels until I got everything for the first bench. The blue ones look better but the locking feature on them is pretty disappointing. I wouldnt spend $80 on them if i had to buy again. i think the kreg wheels are closer to $50????
Build. Build as much as you can.
Great video, very useful. What kind of bench did you use for your CNC machines? Did you make your own?
I built that one with mdf and 2x4s. I may have went this route if I knew about the bench kits
@@TwoMooseDesign I built my CNC bench from MDF and 2x4 too. I was thinking the exact same thing when I saw this video. I wish I had bought one of those kits!
@@tombarton884 I think im still going to build a cnc bench out of these kreg kits. Ive been debating on it since i put these ones together lol
My current assembly table / bench for all is an steel desk frame with a top on it. 😂 use what ya can I say 😂
Thanks for the vid mate , it certainly is a great alternative to making one when you don’t have the time 👍
Thats great! I'm all about saving money and using what you have around!
You definitely need to be able to decide whether or not you need to buy or build. There is definitely some price in making for yourself. We're "supposed" to make everything. But in a real world it's not possible. Hell my robot made my last three pieces of shop furniture 🤣
Dude huge advantage! Minus the price of plywood. I don’t mess with much sheet goods but someone said the other day they paid $80 for Baltic birch?!
I am new and trying to learn, the bench is a good start do you have a link to purchase
There’s links in the description of the video 🙌🏼
Time is the real issue.
Time is always my issue 😩
Where did you get the wheels from? What size?
I got them off amazon. They were like $70?? The kreg jig wheels are way better and more affordable. The blue wheels roll nice but the locking feature is garbage especially for $70
@@TwoMooseDesign I can’t find the kreg jig wheels.
@@williamsills9399 I don’t see them on amazon or the bench parts. Must be sold out
@@TwoMooseDesign thanks for checking.
Have you seen the new ikea pine fold down table
I have not. I’ll have to Google it
Is it like $120?
@@TwoMooseDesign yea and you still have to build it yourself but I think its a good visual idea for shop plans for new makers
@@adrianmunoz6103 absolutely and it doubles as storage. as long as its not super flimsy thats a steal I don't know how they can sell it so cheap 😂
@@TwoMooseDesign I recently bought a workbench from a Facebook marketplace to save on time
6:48 For new people heres the answer you probably came here for.