@clinton

My workbench has a melamine top

Ahh, that makes sense. I noticed that your plans were always on the bench and kind of wondered about that. Seems like a pretty cool idea actually…

Stewmac re-did their routing templates somewhat recently and in addition to being thicker they also include handy routing depths. Using those measurements as a guide seems like a great starting point, cheers!
 

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…   Read more»