With such a small workshop I do a lot of work outside on my roof top, Over the years I have generally had temporary benches built from scrap, sometimes found on a rubbish pile. The elements are extremely hard in Hong Kong and the outdoor benches never last long but serve their purpose.For those reasons I didn't want to invest much time or money in a new bench, I came up with this made wholly from 5 / 2.4 meter 230×40 mm pine planks. The slats on the lower part where old mass produced bed slats I,d found on a rubbish heap. They also exposed doweled into place.Its no work of art but it is interesting in the fact that it dose not have ANY screws or nails. Its wholly constructed using dowel clamp and glue joinery. Some dowels exposed some hidden.The top was simply doweled planks and then exposed dowel secured to the frame. All finished with lovely oil based decking oil for durability.Some pics of the construction along with the predecessor bench that is completely rotten(it served me well though). Oh, the whole build, start to finish including one coat of oil was a total of 12 hours work.Thanks for reading. Anth
With such a small workshop I do a lot of work outside on my roof top, Over the years I have generally had temporary benches built from scrap, sometimes found on a rubbish pile. The elements are extremely hard in Hong Kong and the outdoor benches never last long but serve their purpose.For those reasons I didn't want to invest much time or money in a new bench, I came up with this made wholly from 5 / 2.4 meter 230×40 mm pine planks. The slats on the lower part where old mass produced bed slats I,d found on a rubbish heap. They also exposed doweled into place.Its no work of art but it is interesting in the fact that it dose not have ANY screws or nails. Its wholly constructed using dowel clamp and glue joinery. Some dowels exposed some hidden.The top was simply doweled planks and then exposed dowel secured to the frame. All finished with lovely oil based decking oil for durability.Some pics of the construction along with the predecessor bench that is completely rotten(it served me well though).
