Bench Construction Photos

Some photos of my workbench and cabinet during construction showing various details.
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For those who are interested in building their own bench and feeling a little insecure about their capabilities or how certain things are accomplished, I will provide email consulting services for $10 per email question/issue (please, one question per email) or for $250 I will provide email support for your entire bench building process, less the tool chest.  Tool chest support is an additional $100.  My responses and instructions will often include additional photos not posted here.  If you are interested in this type of service, send me an email and I'll send payment options/instructions to you - dave@swigerwoodworks.com.

Dave...thanks for all of your help; I could have made some non-recoverable errors along the way without your advice.  

Don Hall
Radford, VA

     The first step, marking out of parts.

    Trestle feet and legs showing mortises and tenons. 

    Dry fitting of trestle ends.

    Dry fitting of complete trestle base.

    Trestle foot thumbnail profile and fitting of mortis and tenons. 

    Glue up of stretchers and trestle ends.

    Lots of slab strips.

    Slab section glue up.

    Dry fitting of front apron and end caps.

    Detailed view of box joint.

    Fitting/mounting of front vise.

    Cutting of thumbnail profiles in vise jaws.

    Cabinet glue up.

    Drawer assembly and glue up.

    Assembled drawers.

    Drawer slide mounting.

    Finished assembled cabinet.

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