WORK BENCH FOR A FRIEND

My good friend Rick Thompson mentioned how he wished he had a workbench in his garage. That is all it took for the creatives juices to start flowing.

One critical issue was the lack of space in his 2 car garage. There are already shelves that take up room in the only space that would normally be used at the far end of the garage. So what could we do? Pinterest, here I come. That website is simply full of ideas to ponder. So I started researching ideas for a workbench in a small space.

We decided on the fold up workbench in the first picture. It would do just what Rick wanted and was pretty straightforward. I normally work from plans but I couldn't find one so I adapted one I did find.
Rick and I were going to be the Tim and Al of the tv show Tool Time.

The day of our build we met at Home Depot with Rick's credit card on his person. We had the two biggest pieces cut there and stuffed them and the rest of the materials in Cindy's Pontiac Vibe.

I had never worked with a partner before but Rick and I made it work. We joked around, made our share of mistakes, scratched our heads, conferred with one another and got it done.

The size of the workbench was decided by the space available. The work surface is 3'x6'. The frame is build around the pegboard using 1x4" pine using screws and glue. The legs or supports for the work surface are the doors to a storage area below. So the whole thing sits on a 4" ledge of concrete that extends along the wall of the garage.

You'll have to admit it looks  a lot like the original picture. The important thing is Rick is happy with it and has already started to hang his tools in it.

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