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I do car, sewing, wood, and other work in my SHOP
One level up: Wood Shop
Don't call them tables!
This design comes from a small aircraft fabrication forum:
https://www.eaa.org/eaa/aircraft-building/builderresources/while-youre-building/building-articles/tools-and-workshop/worktables
Thank you Bob Waldmiller and Russ Erb!
The primary goals of their design being:
- cheap framing lumber construction;
- focused on modularity, useful in sets;
- targeted toward assembly: waist-level work height;
My design improves on theirs:
- only picked, kiln-dried lumber;
- resurfaced 4 sides for improved straightness, joint strength;
- individually-leveling feet, with 3" range of adjustment;
By putting ideal surfaces on my boards I get a much stronger and slightly lighter table. The joint strength of surfaced wood vs 'raw' framing lumber is categorically different. The glue strength between well-mated surfaces is much better at immobilizing a joint, improving fastener strength and durability also.
By having some range of adjustment in the feet, tables can be levelled themselves, and then brought level with other tables, to create an extended level work surface which can be walked through.
For some time I used this project partially completed - the square and flat tabletops were an improvement to working on concrete. This usage allowed me to move a lot of other projects forward, especially ones requiring cut panels (Put a Base on It, Cut a Straight Line (placeholder)).
Building the first table on the ground was OK, but building the 2nd one on a table was much better.
I'm not quite done with the tables here, but that hasn't stopped me from putting them to use.
They're not yet done - I still need to add the leveling feet. In fact, it's not a level multi-surface until then - they're just tables.