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6/15/2025, 1:20:48 AM
>>2924161
>But I am just a retard. I didn't learn the lessons my pa could have taught me.
Same here dude. Sometimes you have to make mistakes and learn from them. You will learn no skills by simply buying a bench and you'll regret buying it because its a $100 piece of shit from china that wobbles or isn't strong and mostly you didn't make it.
Buy whatever saw you want, grab a framer's speed square for right angles and more advanced stuff, put pencil to paper and find out how much wood you need to buy. You already have a few ideas in your head: you want it to be about 36" tall, maybe 48" wide so start doing some easy math. It should have diagonal cross braces on the back and sides for stability. Get a little fancy with it making 2 (or more) tiers, plan out where you'll put your wood working vise, and what features you might want to emulate from nicer benches.
Start by making the ladder-frame for the tabletop, add legs, add the lower section, and evaluate if its stable. You'll learn as you go but just start building it. If you mess up you've wasted an afternoon and $20 of wood. Just start over, its not that big a deal.
Pic is my workbench. Its not great, there are some improvements I should do to it, but as you can see it helped me with storage in an awkward space and I can do messy shit on it.
>But I am just a retard. I didn't learn the lessons my pa could have taught me.
Same here dude. Sometimes you have to make mistakes and learn from them. You will learn no skills by simply buying a bench and you'll regret buying it because its a $100 piece of shit from china that wobbles or isn't strong and mostly you didn't make it.
Buy whatever saw you want, grab a framer's speed square for right angles and more advanced stuff, put pencil to paper and find out how much wood you need to buy. You already have a few ideas in your head: you want it to be about 36" tall, maybe 48" wide so start doing some easy math. It should have diagonal cross braces on the back and sides for stability. Get a little fancy with it making 2 (or more) tiers, plan out where you'll put your wood working vise, and what features you might want to emulate from nicer benches.
Start by making the ladder-frame for the tabletop, add legs, add the lower section, and evaluate if its stable. You'll learn as you go but just start building it. If you mess up you've wasted an afternoon and $20 of wood. Just start over, its not that big a deal.
Pic is my workbench. Its not great, there are some improvements I should do to it, but as you can see it helped me with storage in an awkward space and I can do messy shit on it.
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