This is a valuable addition to my woodwork collection ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxbnOKZBE4evMO5V2vroHeCjq6d_MV6wJO I still will rate this woodwork plan as the best in my reference library. It always seem to stand out from the rest whenever you go through the library. This is a masterpiece.
I have 10 acres and a huge shed, but I love the idea of a work bench that has everything. Amazing build, I've been watching this series from the start. Love it!
I never comment on anything i watch and i watch so many woodworking videos but i couldn't help.myself....this is awesome. You done an amazing job and are an inspiration for people to maximise there work spaces!
Hi - 80 year old semi-novice woodworker just found your channel. Really like your projects for shop org. They're competent, yet not intimidating for my level. Hope you keep them up!
Man, this is what you get when you have a Woodworker who has the brains of an engineer. Magnificent ideas that are turned into working solutions to everyday workshop problems. Good work!
YES!!! Ive always wanted to know if this could be done; an all-in-one carpentry workstation (or woodworking bench). Now I see it can, and still work efficiently! Awesome job!
I've seen many solutions on how people try to incorporate their lunchbox thicknessers into a small space and normally they all go for the flip/cart option. What I like about yours is that its built into the workbench and set slightly below the surface so the workbench and thicknesser surface work together and this will reduce snipe. Best solution I've seen yet. Absolutely brilliant.
What a great idea!!! I love your table. It will not work for me in my place, but it gives me lots of ideas how I could do my table. Thanks alot for sharing. This concept is ingenious! Greetings from Switzerland
What I like most so far is the fact you took a necessity and didn’t just make a quick solution, but an incredibly well-thought out piece of integrated furniture. Outstanding.....I started watching and thought I might be able to use a couple of the ideas, but I now think I want to nearly duplicate it for my needs. I don’t have the same minimal space issue you do, but I need to have as much mobility as possible to allow dual use of my workshop. This would absolutely fit the need. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks so much. I am very pleased to hear you are finding value in this build. The fact that there are people that would like to use my ideas make all the extra work worth the effort.
Bravo to you it's nice to see a woodworker using his brain to make a project to his liking. When you began your project I was slightly confused with the outcome 'cause I would have done a few things differently but now I see where you are and you own you project it's all yours. By the way I feel for you my shop is 11.5' x 28' have to think out every project. Right. I 'm jealous seeing the light entering around your door here i Quebec Canada everything hast to be weather sealed insulated it's -20 C today. Keep up the fun.
Excellent ideas and designs. With inspiration from your videos, I definitely build something similar to house my tools. Thank you so much for sharing and keep posting.
Your solution for embedding the planer in the work surface is a new one for me, and also an excellent one. It may be possible to mitigate shortcomings of most cheaper planers by avoiding the use of their own infeed/outfeed tables.
That looks good so far......... I've got so much bench envy!!!!! I'm also looking at parts and seeing what I can do with my workshop, which is still very much in the construction and organization phase. I've seen a few of these ideas on other channels but your's have a few extra twists that would actually help me with my own workshop (thanks for the ideas 😊). Keep up the good work.
You are a very clever young man, this is a very impressive bench, I have watched many of your videos and enjoyed every one, keep up the great work, and thanks for posting from Garry in the UK
I'm very glad I came across your channel. This All-In-One bench is a marvelous idea. Given that I've got all of my equipment plus all that I inherited from my brother crammed inside a 12' x 20' space with very low overhead clearance I can barely make my way from one end of my shop to the other. This would make things a bit more organized and convenient to use. Your ideas are nothing short of brilliant: The swinging Miter Saw, the flipping Planer, the power tool drawer/organizer in such a compact space that is movable at that. And the videography is also quite good; nicely organized and edited. All very well done. Thank you.
Hey Bob, what you're describing sounds a lot like my situation before I started building the bench. I still have one or two tweaks to make to the bench and then I can finally start working on some other shop additions. Thanks for your comment.
Very nice job. Makes me thankful I have a two car garage workshop and just had to put mine on a roller cart and mine had fan assist of chips so just put a collection container under it. Roll it out two feet then connect and run. At least you have gaarge door to open in good weather and to blowout shop when needed.
Much respect! For a while now I have planned to have one long bench in my shop with flip stations for a miter saw, planer, router table, drum sander, and a fixed RAS (for rough cuts), and which serves as a table saw outfeed. I like your setup for the planer. Only thing I would change is leave the base a bit shy so that I can use precision shims to square the planer bed to the top. This video is so helpful!
Very nice design - you are making it look very easy although I know from experience just how tricky it can be - lots of great ideas here for me - a new subscriber from Australia!
I want you to know that when I move next year, I'm stealing a lot of your ideas! lol. I've been considering something along this line for a long time. Only thing that you may run into issues with is wood shift on the vertical stiles. The rotation on the tray is already pretty stiff (which may be an advantage in some points) and if you get any moisture issues, the stile could cause binding. But, since you've attached it with screws, if you run into it, it will be an easy fix. The beauty of your design is that you've built it so if you do run into issues down the road, virtually everything is accessible. Nicely done.
My full time job is in maintenance and fault finding. The bulk of my experience is as a overhead crane technician and if working in maintenance has taught me 1 thing it's that a well engineered piece of equipment is one that takes future expansion and repairs into account. I'm not an engineer but I do try to keep that in mind when I design my projects.
I notice that in your flip top builds, you opt for bushings instead of bearings. Is this a design preference? Cost or availability option? Maintenance issue? Just thinking, based on your reply, that you've examined all your options and came to this one for a specific reason.
To be honest, the original design was with bearings. I opted for bushings in an attempt to simplify the concept. Also, I felt bushings will behave better in the dusty environment. Because I am only making a 180° rotation on the planer and a 85-90° on the miter saw and because it is at low speed I figured simple bushes would be more than suited to the application.
One quick suggestion. Put longer screws through the bushing into the structural vertical plywood after you have adjusted the top to the exact height to help lock it in. Or just 2 of the 4 screws. Just to give the bolts some help. Anyways great video and build.
"Thicknesser"? Brilliant! I love regional nicknames. Great practical solutions. Now you need remotely operated servos to actuate the planer flip and the miter rotation...I'll wait (elevator background music).
Great design and implementation. Looks like when the planer is in use it's entire weight might be constantly pushing down on the 4 bolts in the vertical slots of the "bush" housing, which might cause the whole thing to drift down slightly (???). Once the initial alignment is verified I would firmly support the bottom of the bush housing with a wooden cleat, dowels, or some other method to pin them at the right height. I guess this applies to the miter saw as well. It seems like a simple precaution even if there already is another means of support.
great video as always, and really inspires me to pursue my dreams of starting a workshop even though i've got very small space to work in. Keep it up Boet
accent is sweet, but I have a Vaalie twist to my accent. brilliant design, look forward to the next one - I will probably copy this bench as it would be perfect for the minimal space in standard NZ houses.
I’m wanting to start woodworking here pretty soon. My house will be built in a few months and want to take my garage and turn it into a woodworking shop. In the meantime I’ve been watching a ton of diff videos trying to get an idea of what I need and the way to set it up. I’ve seen a ton of videos of people making similar tables your is the best. Hope to see more videos from you in the future to give me some ideas on fun projects!
very cool. just stumbled on your vid. I've subscribed because I like how you use the space that you have to make it fit what you need. Looks GREAT!! This is something I would do if I had a limited amount of space.
wow, Where do I start on this amazing build, ok here goes, Commentary spot on , video spot on, Lack of music... perfect... build quality ,spot on, imagination and thought process in design...spot on .. I have seen many bench builds on here and yours is up with all the best... some of the other builds have more expensive finishes,. using drawer fronts using better quality woods, but you have excelled at your electrical design and fittings.As we say in the UK, bloody good job mate !!!!!!!! shame you didnt do plans for this bench, you would certainly sell them, big big thanks for posting , from Garry in the UK
Hey Garry. Firstly, thanks so much for the positive feedback. Really makes all the effort worth it. As for the wood and general quality of the bench, I really have been trying to build the bench in a cost effective way. Wood and materials is expensive everywhere but thanks to my country's terrible currency, here, it is especially pricey. I am hoping to re-do it someday with better materials. Finally, the plans. I am working from plans I drew up when designing the bench and I do make them available to people for free on my site woodworkjunkie.com. Unfortunately, the plans are lagging behind the videos. It is taking a bit more time then expected to add the plans to the site and writing in my second language also takes a bit longer. Thanks again for the feedback. I'm adding my dust collector to the bench now and should have the video out by Sunday/Monday.
I was trying to say that your build is as good or better than all the other videos on youtube including the "nice looking because money no object to the man who does them ", yours is a perfect build as it uses common sense my friend, keep posting and can't wait for the plans, have you tried Sketchup program, its brilliant and FREE LOL. GARRY from the UK
Amazing project - you're an engineer, not just a woodworker! Well done!
This is a valuable addition to my woodwork collection ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxbnOKZBE4evMO5V2vroHeCjq6d_MV6wJO I still will rate this woodwork plan as the best in my reference library. It always seem to stand out from the rest whenever you go through the library. This is a masterpiece.
Probably the most impressive woodworking work bench I've ever seen.
"If you can't do something perfect, at least make it adjustable", you've done it perfect ! Great job ! Keep it up 😉
I have 10 acres and a huge shed, but I love the idea of a work bench that has everything. Amazing build, I've been watching this series from the start. Love it!
Unbelievable! What a great idea! You are a super smart and creative guy. I'm a fan.
I like the videos with the super big and heavy workbenches but this is what people really need
I never comment on anything i watch and i watch so many woodworking videos but i couldn't help.myself....this is awesome. You done an amazing job and are an inspiration for people to maximise there work spaces!
This is by far the best workbench I've ever seen!!!! Wondering what's next!!!
lekker boet, even though this video is 5 years old, i still like what you do
This is one of the most useful series of videos on this subject yet. Thank you!
love the idea of using the work table surface as the planer's bed extension.
Hi - 80 year old semi-novice woodworker just found your channel. Really like your projects for shop org. They're competent, yet not intimidating for my level. Hope you keep them up!
Man, this is what you get when you have a Woodworker who has the brains of an engineer.
Magnificent ideas that are turned into working solutions to everyday workshop problems.
Good work!
Clive KC Well said! Want him to help me with my work van set up. Haha
YES!!! Ive always wanted to know if this could be done; an all-in-one carpentry workstation (or woodworking bench). Now I see it can, and still work efficiently! Awesome job!
brains of an engineer yet cuts mdf without a respirator hmmmm
I've seen many solutions on how people try to incorporate their lunchbox thicknessers into a small space and normally they all go for the flip/cart option. What I like about yours is that its built into the workbench and set slightly below the surface so the workbench and thicknesser surface work together and this will reduce snipe. Best solution I've seen yet. Absolutely brilliant.
Very impressed!
I like the way you present your work with minimal 'over description'.
Thanks.
What a great idea!!! I love your table. It will not work for me in my place, but it gives me lots of ideas how I could do my table. Thanks alot for sharing. This concept is ingenious!
Greetings from Switzerland
First-class and thoughtful work. Just a big congratulation from Frankfurt / Germany.
Tom
Great job! Next set of videos....dust collection.
Your program is really fantastic and your knowledge brilliant 👍
What I like most so far is the fact you took a necessity and didn’t just make a quick solution, but an incredibly well-thought out piece of integrated furniture. Outstanding.....I started watching and thought I might be able to use a couple of the ideas, but I now think I want to nearly duplicate it for my needs. I don’t have the same minimal space issue you do, but I need to have as much mobility as possible to allow dual use of my workshop. This would absolutely fit the need. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks so much. I am very pleased to hear you are finding value in this build. The fact that there are people that would like to use my ideas make all the extra work worth the effort.
I mean the guy is a freaking genius. My favourite channel to watch.
Great work man! Very fine indeed. Bosch...… all the pieces fit! Fine piece of work.
So far you've given me many ideas on how I want to do my workbench. This is about the size bench we're going to make for our shop.
Bravo to you it's nice to see a woodworker using his brain to make a project to his liking. When you began your project I was slightly confused with the outcome 'cause I would have done a few things differently but now I see where you are and you own you project it's all yours. By the way I feel for you my shop is 11.5' x 28' have to think out every project. Right. I 'm jealous seeing the light entering around your door here i Quebec Canada everything hast to be weather sealed insulated it's -20 C today. Keep up the fun.
Brilliant video. Your imagination is wickedly on display with this build. Great job.
Incredibly well done!
Absolutely fantastic work! It's amazing how much you fit inside this work bench. I might have to "borrow" some of this for my next workbench
Excellent ideas and designs. With inspiration from your videos, I definitely build something similar to house my tools. Thank you so much for sharing and keep posting.
Awesome as always to watch your videos.
Thanks for the time you take to make and post them
Thanks Jaco. As long as there are people that enjoy watching them I will try best to keep making them.
Great (first time) video. The coolest thing you did was how you fine tuned the adjustment pieces. It seems so obvious NOW :)
Your solution for embedding the planer in the work surface is a new one for me, and also an excellent one. It may be possible to mitigate shortcomings of most cheaper planers by avoiding the use of their own infeed/outfeed tables.
Very nice! I liked how you created the pipe support wiht a large hole so you can adjust the level! Thanks for the tip. Marcelo - Brazil
Perfection at it's best... a stupendous performance and extremely well built.. great video mate
I plan to set my thicknesser lower then put a top board through it level with the bench top so it can double as a jointer, but upside down.
Like so many viewers, I am inspired to build a new bench.
You've creatived a concept, one of the best I jave seen.
Great series off videos! I've watched all 6 and looking forward to the next.
-Josh
dude, that is a SERIOUS work bench! awesome job, dude! makes me want to go build one right now!!!!
Great job, I've been bouncing this idea in my head for both my planer and jointer in my upcoming outfeed/assembly table: thanks for the inspiration
I really enjoyed watching this build. It must have been very satisfying to achieve such a great result. Top job! Cheers 👍😎🇦🇺
Excellent video, was just thinking of doing the same recessed rotating planar set-up, thanks for the ideas. Keep building
That looks good so far......... I've got so much bench envy!!!!! I'm also looking at parts and seeing what I can do with my workshop, which is still very much in the construction and organization phase. I've seen a few of these ideas on other channels but your's have a few extra twists that would actually help me with my own workshop (thanks for the ideas 😊). Keep up the good work.
Absolutely BRILLIANT 🤩👍👍👍
Hubby Loved It!
you've created a self-cleaning thickness planer.......kudos
hot damn, I love this series! and watching with closed-captions...? It is simply the BEST! haha!
You are a very clever young man, this is a very impressive bench, I have watched many of your videos and enjoyed every one, keep up the great work, and thanks for posting from Garry in the UK
Nice job mate. A lot of thought has gone into your bench. 😀
Brilliant, I like it and the video is 5 star
Great job. You need to get the dog hearing protection and a dust mask. 😀
I'm very glad I came across your channel. This All-In-One bench is a marvelous idea. Given that I've got all of my equipment plus all that I inherited from my brother crammed inside a 12' x 20' space with very low overhead clearance I can barely make my way from one end of my shop to the other. This would make things a bit more organized and convenient to use. Your ideas are nothing short of brilliant: The swinging Miter Saw, the flipping Planer, the power tool drawer/organizer in such a compact space that is movable at that. And the videography is also quite good; nicely organized and edited. All very well done. Thank you.
Hey Bob, what you're describing sounds a lot like my situation before I started building the bench. I still have one or two tweaks to make to the bench and then I can finally start working on some other shop additions.
Thanks for your comment.
Great idea recessing the thickneser so that your workbench aligns with the planner bed.
Thanks! It really helps with planer snipe also.
Very nice job. Makes me thankful I have a two car garage workshop and just had to put mine on a roller cart and mine had fan assist of chips so just put a collection container under it. Roll it out two feet then connect and run. At least you have gaarge door to open in good weather and to blowout shop when needed.
Great series! Very cool bench and a use of your space.
Excellent build all around.
Beautifully done.
Great ideas yet again, love the ideas, the design and execution, you are an inspiration to the home woodworker. Thank you for sharing.
Nice work. Very well done!
Great video series mate! one suggestion, why not use slide bolts to lock in the planer. they would take the load no worries
beautiful idea I will start my table like yours.
Much respect! For a while now I have planned to have one long bench in my shop with flip stations for a miter saw, planer, router table, drum sander, and a fixed RAS (for rough cuts), and which serves as a table saw outfeed. I like your setup for the planer. Only thing I would change is leave the base a bit shy so that I can use precision shims to square the planer bed to the top. This video is so helpful!
Very nice design - you are making it look very easy although I know from experience just how tricky it can be - lots of great ideas here for me - a new subscriber from Australia!
Hey man, thanks!
Another great video, love the series.
Great planning always makes for easy work later.
I could not agree more. Great execution starts with good planning.
Dude that is one well thought out bench! Awesome job on the bench and the commentary!
Great Job. Really nice
Thanks. Great job.
I learn a lot from you.
I want you to know that when I move next year, I'm stealing a lot of your ideas! lol. I've been considering something along this line for a long time. Only thing that you may run into issues with is wood shift on the vertical stiles. The rotation on the tray is already pretty stiff (which may be an advantage in some points) and if you get any moisture issues, the stile could cause binding. But, since you've attached it with screws, if you run into it, it will be an easy fix. The beauty of your design is that you've built it so if you do run into issues down the road, virtually everything is accessible. Nicely done.
My full time job is in maintenance and fault finding. The bulk of my experience is as a overhead crane technician and if working in maintenance has taught me 1 thing it's that a well engineered piece of equipment is one that takes future expansion and repairs into account. I'm not an engineer but I do try to keep that in mind when I design my projects.
I notice that in your flip top builds, you opt for bushings instead of bearings. Is this a design preference? Cost or availability option? Maintenance issue? Just thinking, based on your reply, that you've examined all your options and came to this one for a specific reason.
To be honest, the original design was with bearings. I opted for bushings in an attempt to simplify the concept. Also, I felt bushings will behave better in the dusty environment. Because I am only making a 180° rotation on the planer and a 85-90° on the miter saw and because it is at low speed I figured simple bushes would be more than suited to the application.
One quick suggestion. Put longer screws through the bushing into the structural vertical plywood after you have adjusted the top to the exact height to help lock it in. Or just 2 of the 4 screws. Just to give the bolts some help. Anyways great video and build.
This is a very creative solution and build. Thanks for sharing!
This is nice work love how you mounted the planer
Woow woow woow!!!!! Good work man from Italy!!!
Great video my friend.
"Thicknesser"? Brilliant! I love regional nicknames. Great practical solutions. Now you need remotely operated servos to actuate the planer flip and the miter rotation...I'll wait (elevator background music).
It's not a planer. It's a thicknesser
It is a planer (thickness planer) as stated in his description. However, the piece he keeps calling a "bush", we commonly call a "bushing".
excellent idea! i wish i can build the same like that in my home. thanks for sharing your idea
Great design and implementation. Looks like when the planer is in use it's entire weight might be constantly pushing down on the 4 bolts in the vertical slots of the "bush" housing, which might cause the whole thing to drift down slightly (???). Once the initial alignment is verified I would firmly support the bottom of the bush housing with a wooden cleat, dowels, or some other method to pin them at the right height. I guess this applies to the miter saw as well. It seems like a simple precaution even if there already is another means of support.
Amazing work. Best I’ve seen so far.
I am frothin over the result.
great video as always, and really inspires me to pursue my dreams of starting a workshop even though i've got very small space to work in. Keep it up Boet
Nice solution
Lekker boet!!
Nice bench, great to hear the accent ... sounds like mine, originally from Kimberley, Northern Cape.
Greetings from New Zealand.
accent is sweet, but I have a Vaalie twist to my accent. brilliant design, look forward to the next one - I will probably copy this bench as it would be perfect for the minimal space in standard NZ houses.
@@winehand Where do you live boet ?
Good stuff Chom.
Loving these builds.
Looking forward to more!
Subscribed.
Super clever man
I’m wanting to start woodworking here pretty soon. My house will be built in a few months and want to take my garage and turn it into a woodworking shop. In the meantime I’ve been watching a ton of diff videos trying to get an idea of what I need and the way to set it up. I’ve seen a ton of videos of people making similar tables your is the best. Hope to see more videos from you in the future to give me some ideas on fun projects!
Excelent job friend
the only change i would make is adding a planar to the side and holes on top for clamping
This a great idea which I plan to use myself, thanks for sharing
I like this one!!!
Awesome plan & work. Thanks for the ideas.
PS: I would love to see you do the same thing to the mitre saw.
Very neat work. In all your videos.
Genius dude.. I would love to have a stopper on the door for the planer though.
very cool. just stumbled on your vid. I've subscribed because I like how you use the space that you have to make it fit what you need. Looks GREAT!! This is something I would do if I had a limited amount of space.
I'm loving it, build me one and send it to the UK, thanks
well done mate!
Genius.. You are building an amazing project.. I have got to try this plan
Absolutely brilliant, love your work
Saw this on the Facebook group. Amazing work! Great video too.
That’s one nice work Station; love your videos and your ideas, extremely clever 👍
That’s insanely clever mate 🔨🔨👍👍👍
wow, Where do I start on this amazing build, ok here goes, Commentary spot on , video spot on, Lack of music... perfect... build quality ,spot on, imagination and thought process in design...spot on .. I have seen many bench builds on here and yours is up with all the best... some of the other builds have more expensive finishes,. using drawer fronts using better quality woods, but you have excelled at your electrical design and fittings.As we say in the UK, bloody good job mate !!!!!!!! shame you didnt do plans for this bench, you would certainly sell them, big big thanks for posting , from Garry in the UK
Hey Garry. Firstly, thanks so much for the positive feedback. Really makes all the effort worth it. As for the wood and general quality of the bench, I really have been trying to build the bench in a cost effective way. Wood and materials is expensive everywhere but thanks to my country's terrible currency, here, it is especially pricey. I am hoping to re-do it someday with better materials. Finally, the plans. I am working from plans I drew up when designing the bench and I do make them available to people for free on my site woodworkjunkie.com. Unfortunately, the plans are lagging behind the videos. It is taking a bit more time then expected to add the plans to the site and writing in my second language also takes a bit longer. Thanks again for the feedback. I'm adding my dust collector to the bench now and should have the video out by Sunday/Monday.
I was trying to say that your build is as good or better than all the other videos on youtube including the "nice looking because money no object to the man who does them ", yours is a perfect build as it uses common sense my friend, keep posting and can't wait for the plans, have you tried Sketchup program, its brilliant and FREE LOL. GARRY from the UK
Awesome, thanks Garry! I'll try my best to keep the builds "spot on"!
Great idea
Awesome .. great hands