EAA Workbenches

Workbenches
It seems that horizontal surfaces in any shop are always in short supply. The EAA standard workbenches seem to be a really good design for building airplanes. They're also really easy to build. The plans have been used hundreds of times in the last 30 years and they're really efficient as far as wood usage. They're a convenient size and building two of them out of a couple sheets of plywood and 2x4s is easy to do in a few hours. It's also a great way to get started on the build journey involving the whole family. We built 2 of the standard 2' x 5' tables with enough wood left over to build a 2' x 3' table which we'll use for the heavy tools (bandsaw, drill press, grinder and vise).

In hindsight the only thing I wish we had done differently was use MDF instead of plywood for the top. Plywood isn't smooth and it splinters. It already needs sanding or maybe polyurethane.

Having a both a drill and impact driver makes things faster. Definitely pre-drill all of the screws. 

Building 2 at the same time is the way to go

Sebastian gets in the swing of helping out.

2 standard tables + 1 tool table + 1 Harbor Freight tool table



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