Please forgive my confusion… what I saw was on a different site and publisher…

Guess I’m REALLY getting OLD now!!

Sorry…

The video I saw was in an email, which doesn’t work anymore.

Was sending the video a mistake and not meant to be done yet?

It was very good… showing all of the various sections that could be pulled / arranged, setting up clamps easily, showing the pipe holding wood pieces and how you turn them for clamping setups

Can you help? It’s got to be around here somewhere!

Thank you,
Joe Lyddon

Ben
North Caorlina

To start with it looks great! And as some others mentioned a workbench is personal!!
In holland this would be an almost standard woodworker workbench. Although here the trays are near the rear of the top and not in the middle.
Most benches here have the trays machined in the top itself, which is ussually 4" thick with a tray of 2 1/2" deep by 5 to 6" wide. in the lentgh the trays slope up on both end to the surface for easy cleaning.
However they are normaly not separate from the bench.
As someone stated earlier it does make the top less strong and I personnally like a complete flat even workarea, so I made drawers under the top, but again its personal.

However if this works for you make it!

Dirk Oorthuizen
Holland

Still, I’m liking your design changes the more I look at them.

The bench overall looks like a very practical design without taking a year to build. A few comments:
My shins hurt looking at the lower front strecher. My preference would be to raise it up enough to allow a foot to freely plant under the bench. It would make it easier to sweep under the bench too. You know, like every few years, if needed.
The tool tray idea is really clever! Probably will need to make the sides of the tray boxes out of solid wood so the height will move with the seasons along with changes in the top thickness. When you flip over the boxes this should make the bottoms nice and flush with the work surface. Maybe.
Is that a sage-kama joint attaching the lower front and rear rails to the legs? Here’s a link for an example of what I mean:
http://www.davidfay.com/full.php?image=95.fall.hf.detail.jpg&title=NarraBedWithExposedJoinery.gif
It looks preet big and mean but would you still need to secure it to the floor? Maybe put some high friction material on the bottom of the legs, which has worked well for my bench.
Good luck with the bench. Life is short and wood is good. Build the damn thing.

I like the design of your bench (with exception to the tool tray, personal decision there). I hate to even comment on the design, because you’ve obliviously designed it for how you work, which is why you should build your own bench in the first place.

But, if it were my bench I would consider putting a tray at the bottom of your bench for storage. And I might replace the face clamp with a twin vise for easier dovetailing.

Again, each bench is personal.

I really like your design for the gap between the "apron" and the top. It would seem to give you the best of both worlds. I like the English style bench, but the apron getting in the way of clamping, always turned me away from the design. Great solution.

Craig Stevens