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Workbench for model making

Harlequin

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Over the past few weeks it's been hard to motivate myself to do anything, aside from drawing stuff on the computer, which is always satisfying.

 

So this weekend I decided to just do something, anything just to get myself going. So I built a workbench for model making so that I don't monopolise the dining table any more.

 

The work surface is 18mm ply with a frame of 50*50 PSE bracing for strength and to straighten out the ply, which was a bit warped.

 

Sides and shelf are 12mm birch ply.

 

The legs are a bodge up so that I could get the job finished before work on Monday - 50*50 PSE braced by 12mm birch ply. Time will tell if they need more bracing...

 

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Ply surface and frame being glued up in my shed.

 

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The finished article (apologies for bad photo - not enough light).

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sigtech

Looks substantial enough to me Phil - when I first looked at the photo I thought that was a mouse mat on the workbench, then I looked again and of course it's a cutting mat!

 

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Steve

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Marly51

Just reclaimed my workshop and plan to build a mini workbench with bench clamp, micro lathe, etc - probably after April when current projects are no longer taking up most of the floor space. Just got to watch that it doesn’t take too much time away from getting on with the actual modelmaking. I like your bench design, Phil.

 

Marlyn

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