The Portable, Affordable, Quick-Stack Workbench.
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- Опубліковано 14 гру 2021
- Build a bench that breaks down, goes with you & sets back up fast!
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I've dabbled with woodwork for 50 years, including building furniture, and I am by training a engineering designer and in my opinion that is a wonderful piece of useful, practical craftsmanship. You have every right to feel proud of yourselves. Well made.
I just bought the package. Time to stop procrastinating.
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Update - The bench is done! Although it can be taken apart when needed, lets call it moveable but not so portable as it is over-built. Measuring 2 meters by 60cm and made of scotch pine/spruce with a few parts made from birch (the wood native to Sweden), the bench is ready to work. I bought a used Record No 52 1/2 from England on the ebay and it installed nicely as a face vise. Waiting on the end vise and still need to make the dogs/holes. I made some modifications like bigger legs and tusked tennons (not hard to do even though it was the first time for me) to hold it together. It has no tool well. Instead it has a second bench top and a planing stop in the middle. I used old, milled lumber that was twisted and bowed and got good practice making them straight. Thanks for the guide and motivation to complete the project Rex!
This is so perfect. Thanks so much for all this work to come up with this design! You have no idea how many "beginner workbench" videos and articles I have gone through and the first thing they do is start cutting stock up on a freaking table saw or band saw and then passing it through a thicknesser and clamping it with $1000+ of clamps. What don't they understand!? We don't have those tools! Seeing the tabletop placed on buckets and Nate sitting on some stock to hand plane was a total "aha" moment. I can do this too! You've solved the "I need a workbench to build a workbench" paradox I have felt stuck in for a year of wanting to get into woodworking.
Nice Rex. It's the step-child of an English Joiners Bench and a Moravian with a touch of Crazy Uncle Roubo thrown in for good measure.
Gotta love that Crazy Uncle. Keeps it lighthearted!
Basically looks like a scandinavian/German bench with simplified vices. Like the type Sjöbergs sells nowadays
Also an excellent bench for the guy who has to pull his and his wife's cars out of the garage to set up a shop. Knock it down when not in use, and put it up when the cars are out of the way and you are getting your hobby thing on. Great design. Thanks Rex.
Rex…. I’ve watched this video probably 10 times and I just bought the plans. I’m blown away. I didn’t know the tool tray flipped over and doubled as extra bench top space. Brilliant. I think I’m going to laminate a second part of the top so I can have a tool tray for some projects but be able to use the extra top for larger projects as my skill grows. That’s the plan for now! Huge thanks!
You're so welcome! Thank you for supporting the channel!
@@RexKrueger no, thank YOU! This video is criminally under viewed btw
My wife always said she wanted me to try pegging, I never knew she meant building easy workbench joints.. She was thrilled when I said I was willing to try it.
I didn't even know she was into woodworking.
Is THAT what my wife was talking about? I googled it and saw something that didn't seem related to furniture building.
You should be proud of it. It's really good. I kinda got a kick out of how Nate raided the Rex wardrobe to the build too :)
Swear to god, he just showed up dressed like that!
@@RexKrueger dressed for success!
Brilliant joint for someone like me who is making the transition from glue and screw construction to traditional joinery. Thank you for your excellent work and willingness to share with us!
It's still mostly glue-and-screw!
@@RexKrueger By the way, can I replace the pegs for bolts? Also, can I reduce the height of the stretchers? sorry to ask
Just bought the plans!
Congrats!! This project is a real landmark for the channel and the Woodworking for Humans idea.
@@SamuelCersosimo I would not make either of those changes. Both of those features make the bench stable. Good luck with your build!
I think this is a great idea. Right at the beginning of lockdown I started making a Moravian workbench for the same reasons listed here. I live in a townhouse without a garage or dedicated workshop so I use my back patio area but needed something I could bring inside and store in my storage area. Had this been out when I started that bench, I would’ve immediately jumped on the plans and online course. Absolutely love the content Rex and how approachable and simple you make woodworking. Between you, Paul Sellers, and James Wright, I’ve been able to really dive into hand tool woodworking without breaking the bank and making some really fun stuff!
Yep. What he said.
Our stories are identical. Good to read this and know.
I think this design is ingenious, and for the small apartment balcony woodworker, you can reduce the length a width down if need be too. Bravo, Rex.
This is absolutely fantastic. I've been looking for something that fits the bill and this is it, in every respect. Can't begin to express how much I appreciate what you do for the wood working community - especially for beginner folks like us who want a decent run at starting the hobby. Also - would love to petition to have the name of this bench changed to the Krueger Bench.
I say name it the Dunning-Krueger Bench and make a play on the "Dunning Krueger effect". "It's so easy you'll make a beginner think they're a pro!"
This is a great design! I’m already thinking about all the stuff you could put on a shelf underneath. Just install cleats on the the lower stretchers and cut some 2x12s to sit on them. Let them float so it stays a knock-down bench.
Just wanted to say “Bravo!” to Rex and Nate. You guys should be really proud of what you’ve accomplished. I love the bench and look forward to building it. Really great job, you guys!
" . . . or even in your driveway . . ." Those were magic words for me Rex, and your timed demonstration was the clincher. I've been using a sturdy set of folding sawhorses and a rough torsion box for my set-up and take-down workbench on the driveway between spells of rainy weather. Until I get more indoor space, that's how I have to work. This design will make a proper woodworker's bench, but I'll still be able to knock it down and stow it out of the way inside the garage. So here I go, Rex, buying another set of your plans.
Hi Rex, brilliant, absolutely genial and... easy! Thank you for paying attention to the fact that most people that "build a bench" do not have one to start with - a common problem with "bench building how-to videos". Thank you for using creativity and maintaining simplicity in the design/construction of this little marvel. May Peace be with you, Ciao, L
After YEARS of watching you I decided to finally support the channel and buy the course for the workbench. I have a really small space and when I saw how it could break down - I was convinced. I was very impressed with how clear and straight forward both the videos and instructions were.
UA-cam has changed my life for helping me stay in this. You and others given me a greater sense of confidence of what I can do around the house and the courage to make mistakes.
bought the plans, got the supplies, built the bench, had a lot of fun building it, and it works awesome thank you!
thats great. Which woods did you end up using? I'm curious to know if you went with the Douglas fir top and/or southern yellow pine for the legs.
Finally, a bench that fills my needs and can match my level of working skills! Thanks to you and your young partner for a job well done. And to top it all off, my wife can have her garage back, well , occasionally!
This was an excellent project to work on - like so many of Rex’s videos and plan it’s straightforward to follow and very useful. A good test of skills but at this scale easier than tiny dovetails. It’s very solid when put together and I’ve been using it for a year now. If you can get your hands on a 71 hand router for the joints that makes everything easier, more accurate and satisfying. For UK viewers, scaffold planks are a good substitute for the lower rail. Keep going with these projects Rex.
Congratulations with this great design. It shows that you have studied so many traditional benches and you have selected the best features and combined them in one surprisingly simple but complete design.
I've been wanting to build a new bench for a while but knew my skill level was still too new to do it right. This addresses all that. *Huge* thanks.
Love the affordability, stability, and usability. Being mobile is a bonus!! Well done, and great vid as always!
Hey Rex! Thanks for the inspiration! I've been a VERY amateur hobbyist for a few years now. Most of my projects have been built in my head, except for a small handful that I've actually gone and done the work for.
When I first started several years ago, I had a circular saw, a drill, and a hammer, and no knowledge of anything else. My very first project was Tom Caspar's torsion box workbench, and it was ok. I didn't know about letting new wood acclimate, so it ended up very wobbly, and not flat. A couple years ago, I'd started building a Paul Sellers' style bench, but lost steam when the pandemic hit.
I saw this video initially about a week ago, and bought the plan/video bundle, and immediately started feeling the urge to get to work. I'm recovering from the plague right now, and still testing positive, so I can't get be material, but this afternoon I thought, "You know what? I've got a slab and leg blanks already glued up and flattened/squared, why I don't I just use what I've got, and if it's not good, I'll go get new material when I'm better!"
And I did just that. Just finished chopping the first leg mortise (much harder than cutting a half lap! 😂) And I'm feeling really good. Thank you for helping me find my motivation to do the work! It's been a long couple of years, and I really needed this!
Keep on being awesome!
This is fantastic! I wish this had been a thing about 30 years ago it would have saved me a lot of grief! Really a fantastic design!
An absolutely wonderful creation, combining the simplicity of Rex's designs with the practicality of being portable. Thank you, Rex! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The tapered dowel joints in the spreaders is magnificient! What a great easy option for making the bench more beginner friendly.
And now that you've done this version and done it so well... What about a similar treatment for an English style design? You've inspired so many folks to try your traditional English bench and they are loving it that it seems like a natural to provide a break down design for an English bench too!
The other feature I liked was how stable it was during planing the boards. So often this is a weak point for many benches that webble wobble to and fro during serious pushing operations like planing hardwoods. This design takes such loads in stride. So well done!
LOVE this design Rex. It really fills the need you outlined at the beginning of the video - a newer woodworker who wants a full featured bench that can also be portable for someone who foresees a lot of moving in their younger (or not) years. I think this is a real hit for 20-somethings getting into woodworking and others. I still need to build a bench and I loved your joiner's bench video, but now I'm considering this for my eventual build instead!
Thanks Rex! This is exactly what I need! I appreciate all you do and your willingness to innovate.
EXACTLY what I wanted and was thinking I was going to design myself...great work and thank you for saving me the time and waste...great stuff!
Wow Rex. I’ve got a feeling you’re going to go viral with this bench design. Outstanding!
My only gripe is the name. Should’ve named it something cool. Moravian, Roubo, Nicholson all have their lore. How about the Krueger bench? 👀
"Krueger Bench" it is! Awesome and fair name. It's one of those things that the people and history books end up naming. Not The author himself. (=
I have to say, that's one nice bench! I have been watching your vids for the last year and have to thank you for teaching so much.
This is an amazing design and the plans look great. I've never done any woodworking, but this bench and all your other videos with simple hand tools is really inspiring!
what a great way to made a project like this approachable and easy to feel confident about starting for total beginners. great teaching style
I've found my woodworking mentor guy. Thanks a bunch. Glad to be here!
This was awesome and awe-inspiring - I live in a situation where I could never have a full-sized workbench setting up all the time, and the few knock-down benches I've seen (like folding tops, etc) have just not been interesting. You got a customer, and I can't wait to build this in time for my birthday next month!
Wow. Beautiful result from experience, planning and clever forethought. Well done.
Excellent design Rex. Made with the beginner in mind but it could be the ONLY bench a woodworker would EVER need👍
I'm impressed, Rex. You've outdone yourself. The consideration you show for the newer woodworker is amazing and commendable. I have no need for this bench, but it's so clever and economical, I might build it anyway.
This is awesome! Thank you for putting together the video, the plans, and the course. Nice job.
This is such a nice bench. I was looking at building a new work bench and I was a bit intimidated by the more traditional benches but finding this video this morning really satisfies all my needs AND it's portable. Thank you so much for really digging into this design and coming up with something for beginners like me.
That pegged knock down system is brilliant.
I am currently building this bench and so far I am very happy and having a blast watching it come together.
You know you are the best woodworking channel on youtube... I love your content. And yours is also the most underrated carpentry youtube channel.
Thanks so much Rex for all of this. The video, the plans, the links to some inexpensive decent vise's, it's all wonderfully appreciated. I had been looking at building my first real hand tool bench. I've been operating on another channels folding mobile bench, that works great but it just doesn't have to mass that is requisite for planing type tasks. I've purchased the plans for this one and will be building it it the near future. Thanks again!
Hi Rex, Greetings from France. I have just converted my detached garage (on the other side of the road - the French do a lot of this) into a woodworking shop. I'm 74 and the only previous experience I've had building things from wood was at school when I was 12. So, I think you could call me a very green novice. However, I'm totally at peace with knowing I'm a rank amateur. I'm basically a blank canvas and try like a sponge to absorb as much as I can. Currently, I'm waiting for the electricity company to "light me uo - so to speak. So, I've spent a lot of my time (at my age, thats something we have a lot of - god willing) looking at and absorbing your videos on UA-cam. I love your dry wit and the way you present your subject matter which which oozes professionalism. I will when lit up have the plethora of 'machines', but I am also tring to go old school with equipment. I loved the way you presented the Quick-Stack Workbench and most unusually for me I bought a set of your plans which I have to say are clear, concise, well laid out (I'm an ex Military Chief Clerk and presentation for me is very important) and are a dream to understand. I'm also looking to make the Old English Chisel Handles but don't have a lathe - so it was nice to see you show alternative ways of making them. Anyway, please keep up the good work and qudos to you for presenting such an interesting channel - thanks from the other side of the pond!!!!
I've just started college 3 weeks ago and I've caught up with the leading students. I should be passing my level 1 diploma in joinery and carpentry by april, so I'll have a few months to build this in the class room and take it home. Thanks
Rex,
This is absolutely fantastic work! I have a small house and have been thinking about making a bench for it, but couldn't find anything portable because I would need to transport it to my storage unit (like all my large power tools) when not in use. This 100% fits the bill for me! Thanks so much!
Now I know what you have been doing regarding the work bench topic all this time.
Lovely material. Great project. It will be a while yet before I can get stuck in to it but I’ll be back for it.
Looks great, I will be purchasing the course to support your efforts when I have some time to build it. Great work guys!
Nice one Rex & Co. Glad to see your channel growing, awesome educational content as always. Keep on keeping on !
Just in time for me to make a bench for my new apartment, it's pretty close to what I was thinking, and you've sold me on the tool well since I tend to cover my work surface with tools.
I also do a lot of more general tinkering, so I'm thinking about substituting a metal machine vise in one of the corners, and modifying the bases on my helping hands to fit the dog holes. Thanks for coming up with this!
This is the best idea I’ve seen on this channel.
I need this bench , and I already have a shop place workbench
I love this channel Rex! I got interested in woodworking couple of months ago and your woodworking for humans series got me set on the path to doing hand tools only. I figure if I want to learn a hobby and make it a skill then learn it the old fashioned way. You can't take away hand tools the way you can take away power tools. Silly me decided that my first true project was going to be this bench. Started on it this weekend and truly learned in and outs of my cheap kobalt no. 4 plane through several mistakes as well as learning the importance of a good strong hold on your project. Finally finished gluing up the bench top this morning. It kind of feels like the hardest parts behind me already. Crossing my fingers to have this done by the end of the week! Thanks again Rex!
Proud to support this kind of content! Just purchased the course.
WOOT! This is going on the list for the minute we finally get our, ah, rustic basement sorted. Thank you!
Awesome.
I was going to say I would buy it when I could afford it - partly to make it, and partly as a thank you for all your great content - but then I saw the price and...
Well I'll buy it now before you realise that the price should be raised!
Thank you Rex and Nate.
Really excited to see the direction your channel is going in Rex! I'm still doing great with the English Joiner's Bench but I'm going to take the course and build this bench just for the opportunity to take your first course!
Hi Rex, I love the idea of this. I always thought it would be cool if you could embody these principles into a book shelf too. Thanks for all that you do
This is freaking awesome! Well done Rex. I absolutely intend on buying the plans and building this
This is exactly what i was looking for! Thank you so much Rex (and you too Nate!). Now off to buy those plans.
Great idea Rex. Thanks for the course/plans! I'll give it a try in the spring.
I just have to say its very rare I comment on a video, but Rex you've done such an astounding job guiding us through this build. The amount of work, care and detail you two have put into everything really shows, and it helps that you are a splendid instructor. I've been stuck in a similar situation as Nate, looking for a good knock-down bench that doesn't take up too much space or too much dough, and thanks to your and Nate's enginuity, I can finally say I'm proud to now have a 'quick-stack work bench' in my shop. Bravo guys, keep up the amazing work, couldn't ask for better!
Rock on Rex and Co!! Beauty idea, exceptional outcome
This is brillant !!! And the price for that kind of content is just too good to be true !!!
Ahhh.. this is great!! 👏👏👍👍 I'm currently transitioning from my one car garage to our new house with a huge garage, but there are things I need to do on the house before I can begin remodeling the new garage, and I was trying to figure out how I could move my one of current benches to the new house. With this, I won't have to. It's cheap, strong, and quick. So I can make it at home and take it to the new house to put it to work. Awesome design. Thank you for taking the time to create this. I'm so excited to get started on it. 😁😁😁
Just completed the quick-stack bench per the plans. This puppy is solid!
Thanks for the video and for making the plans available.
Thanks Rex! I knew as soon as i saw those through tenons this was going to be a great build!
Well done Rex and Nate - great work guys!
EXACTLY what I was looking for. I work away from home week at a time and need bench to do homework when away. Thanks Rex. Thanks Nate.
Congratulations on a beautiful design! Your presentation inspires me to want to build one.
I'm looking at building a bench and that tool tray clamp trick (10:15) has sold me on the use of a tool tray. Thank You!
This is a wonderful idea. As a pro woodworker I am sometimes struggling at a jobsite with an inadequate makeshift workbench. This is a perfect solution 👍 I'll try and make one during the holidays, I also have already some improvements for me, I'll share them after I built it.
Very nice designs guys! Really Impressed! Thanks for the great content, as usual.
Have been trying to figure out something like this. Very excited for these plans!
Awesome job gents... Great design and useful for even the more experienced woodworkers out there...
Well done Rex, beautiful, educational, and entertaining. Thank you.
This is probably your best video yet (IMO)! Great job man!
Love it, bought the plans. will build 1st in spring.. Thank You Mt. Rex
Excellent joinery simplification based on good old joinery. Awesome work. 👍
This is awesome Rex! Super approachable and functional!
They just keep getting better.
I just started finishing my workbench today. Way simpler, using wood leftovers/found on the street and simple joints I think you recommended: sort of halflaps that get screwed together.
Congrats Rex on the online class. Bench looks really good. Hope you and the family have a good Christmas and Happy Holidays.
Well done Rex, as always you’ve produced high quality content
Just as I am starting to see some issues in the English Joiner I built, this comes along that solves those issues. I will be looking to build this in the future.
This is brilliant! If I needed a knock down bench, I would definitely build this. Well done!
Thanks Rex! I'm slowly breaking out my small workshop from out house remodel. Lots of stuff when into my shop so it was full to the brim of stuff. as I'm digging back out I'm realizing that I really do not have a bench for woodworking. So this is timely as my workshop is tiny. I purchased the plans and look forward to building this baby... as soon as I empty my shop that is. :D
Brilliant hoss!!!! Son and son in law are both going to love this!
I just bought the plans and ordered the vises, picking up the lumber today. I can’t wait to get started building!
Love this! Can't wait to build.
This is a smash hit! Wonderful job rex and Andy!
Looks like an amazing bench. Just ordered the plans. Can’t wait to start my build
Pretty excited for this, I’ve been thinking about a knockdown bench, and you seem to have solved all my design questions. Now to free up some work time.
This is an incredible find, and perfect for my needs. Thank you so much!!!
Nice joinery, Rex!
You know i really enjoy seeing such a big creator commenting on so many of my videos. I know you're busy (because I'm busy) so thank you!
@@RexKrueger I am always eagerly waiting for new wooden knowledge! :D Love watching your work as soon as it comes out
Holy Crap!!!...this bench design is brilliant!!!!!! I bought the plans and built the original jointers bench (with some modifications) and it works great! Do not hesitate to trust Rex and follow his plans and the online course.
This is a nice build. I'll be keeping it in mind when I am ready to build myself a bench.
Looks great. Would love to hear some suggestions on how to store the parts, as in stacking order and position, in case it needs to sit unassembled for a while to reduce warping as such.
None of the parts are going to warp. The only thing that really matters is that the tool well is much more fragile than the other parts. That should be on top.
This is litteraly exactly what Ive been wanting you to make! I'm also young and need to portable bench