This is my current workshop bench, I used an old pallet for the top structure. I just made some legs and braces.

I build furniture as well for people that need them out of reclaimed lumber. Here are a few tables, benches, dressers and such. I know I have a video of my diy workbench. Cannot seem to find it.

OK - pics in my workshop, as my workshop used to be (ie before it became a lot messier and untidier than it was when these pics were taken!)

Nearest the camera on the right, with the blue chair, is an old (office) table top, sat on some adjustable height Ikea legs.  It's also bolted to the wall.  I mainly use that bench for the more detailed / set-up work, soldering, etc.

Furthest from the camera is an old bench that I bought years ago from B&Q.  And I mean years decades.  It came in kit form.  It's as solid, and heavy, as it looks.  It was something daft, like £30.  It's got a sheet of OSB across the top to create a flat-ish top to it.

On the left, running down the middle of the workshop, are a couple of old office desks that I rescued from a skip.  Well, the facilities team of the office did the actual rescuing, but I supervised ;). 

The company were chucking out a load of odd desks that didn't fit with their later furniture, so the old ones were - literally - going in a skip.  I think I've got 5 or 6 of them around the place.  Perfectly good, steel frames, what a waste that would have been! (Total Cost £0).

I've managed to acquire quite a bit of old office furniture through the years - companies are incredibly wasteful.

Over the far side, is a bench that I made - a 3x2 frame, with OSB sheet on the top (had lots of OSB left over from doing the workshop floor!).  I wanted something fairly solid as the drill press is a weighty bit of kit.

And an original ("vintage") B&Q workmate bench, which is still doing a job!!

There's a lot of nice work there @Clinton - very nice work!

Here's a couple of mine ...

One Oak shoe cupboard, built to fit in the space in the porch;

And a Sapele stable door, made to fit in the space in a wall (!);

It's a big door, so a standard sized one wouldn't have fitted.  

I'm lucky in that a neighbour is a *proper* cabinet maker, with a *proper* workshop.  He also likes teaching people, so I buy a teaching day or three, and head off there with some plans ... and come home with something useful!

I begining to think that I'm getting in way out of my depth here. I've got a long way to go. 😬😁 

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I build furniture as well for people that need them out of reclaimed lumber.

@clinton That all looks superb man, nice work. I want to this kind of work as well, garden furniture too, all from reclaimed wood. Once I’ve moved to Scotland I will start building stuff proper. 

I'm lucky in that a neighbour is a *proper* cabinet maker, with a *proper* workshop. 

@tv101 That is luck T, nice work as well. It looks really good, great finish. 

@Russ ...

In 2007, I went on my first Bailey workshop course.

Before doing that course, if someone gave me a saw and a piece of wood, and asked me to make 2 pieces of wood .... something generally went wrong. 

I had long since given up trying to do anything remotely DiY with wood, because I was useless at it.

That first course taught me that I could make a guitar, but - more importantly - taught me that I wasn't quite as useless as I'd always thought.  Doing that course (and the next one) gave me the confidence to try some other woodworkery DiY tasks.

And that's why I'll be forever grateful to Mark & Carol.  Yup, I learned how to make guitars (and I've made a few now!), but I learned a whole lot more too!

Cheers @Boo - given half a chance, I'd be spending a lot more time "next door"!

I begining to think that I'm getting in way out of my depth here. I've got a long way to go.

@russ We all started somewhere but we all improve over time. We all get intimidated by other people, there is always a bigger fish. There is no need to worry though, just keep plodding along at your own pace and before you know it, you will look back from time to time and think, yeah I’ve learned a lot and improved as I’ve gone along. The more you get into it, the more you will improve. Nobody is gonna vindictively criticise you (or anyone) and if they do, they will get told. This is a learning environment and we all support and learn from each other. Keep the faith. 🤘😁🤘🎸 

This is my indoor work bench. I used batons and angled legs to fix it to the wall, it’s solid. This is a spare room in the house, I’m glad of it in the winter and so it the cat. 

Oh yeah, the work surface is the sturdy top of an old wardrobe. 

I remember the thread where you were putting that together @Boo!

Makes me feel a little guilty that I don't make more/better use of all the space that I've got here!

When we bought this place, it had a large concrete based installed, just to the side of the driveway.  Previous owners had put a large "mobile" (not very mobile) home on it, for an elderly relative and their carer.  It had all the services connected too.

So, it was the perfect spot for a workshop (and a garage store too).  Having learned from my previous shed, that "bigger than I'll ever need" is only valid for about a year before you outgrow it, I spec'd this workshop to be "way way bigger than I'll ever need".  Which, it turns out, is valid for a couple of years.

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I would kill (not literally) for a work bench like these. It would be the only one I needed for everything for the rest of my time on this Earth. Oh I’m drooling. Not sure what the cost would be for having one made or whether I could make one myself. I’ve discovered recently that having use of a vice of several makes working so much easier. I want to make lots of stuff, not just guitars. One can dream. 

This is my current workspace in my garage at home. The bench is built into shelves made from 5"x2 1/2" pallet wood with a 1/2" plywood work surface (they were big pallets that timber cranes were delivered on from Finland). I originally built it for engineering type work, so its fairly solid.

I've recently added a shelf under the bench to get rid of the clutter, I still lose my pencil though.

 My indoor workspace is an mdf board on the spare bed, but I'm not allowed to make sawdust in there.

Cheers for the encouragement @boo & @tv101.  

Love the cat @boo.

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I've been using a folding Black & Decker work bench for 39 years and have built several instruments and dozens of repairs. It works ok and I can move it outside to do sanding and routing jobs.

I’ll snap a few photos of my benches when I move into my new shop in a couple of weeks as all my stuff is in storage. I built my first one around 15 years ago from some plans that I found online. The bench is a tad complicated but nothing outrageous, I didn’t know any better. I wanted something solid and that’s what I got!

I've been using a folding Black & Decker work bench for 39 years and have built several instruments and dozens of repairs. It works ok and I can move it outside to do sanding and routing jobs.

@rocknroller912 Yeah I used the same thing (still do sometimes). I soon realised that I wanted something more stable and sturdy to work on, literally. So I did, I made a bigger and sturdier bench from a pallet, some 3x4s and a sheet of 18mm MDF. It’s ok but has started to sag and the top is not flat any more and causes many problems when trying to work with power tools etc. 

I now want a proper woodworking bench with vices installed. It’s not just for guitar making, it’s for all the woodwork I want to do. 

These are my faux Black & Decker work benches from Aldi, I built my first Bandsman using these. (See pictures). 👍