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Woodworking is a solitary pursuit and it s rare to use someone else s bench.
Woodworking bench thickness. Can you imagine a top that is 1 5 with aprons and 4 5 ft span to sag under hand pressure i mean really. It appears to me that the thickness of your bench top is some kind of macho ego thing among woodworkers. Good thing woodworkers don t design bridges. While the standard thickness of the table top for a quality woodworking bench is 1 with lesser models often offering only of thickness the grizzly provides a 1 thick table top.
As mentioned the use of the bench will dictate the thickness required. 3 no wait 4 no don t even think about less than 5. 4 th function of my workbench how to make the thicknesser using a planner michaelpaley amazing woodworking tools woodworking workshop woodworking tools thicknesser. Face gluing boards so they are on edge in the final top assembly provides a top that is far more dead.
This is the same as the lie nielsen traditional benches. 2 1 2 thickness is usually enough to achieve that i d think but thicker might be better depending on what you ll be doing on the bench. To improve the rigidity of the surface it is recommended to use two or more layers of inch plywood for your workbench top. There is not another table that really comes close to that size.
Which you could make your own by gluing thinner boards together. For an assembly table it really would not need to be super massive. This rig serves as the assembly bench in the popular woodworking shop but if you put a vise on it somewhere it probably could serve as a workbench in a production shop. Unless you are doing hand tool work this would really not be required.
I ve got an antique woodworking bench which is 2 1 2 inches thick.