I am excited to get started building my first Cigar Box Guitar. I have wood working experience and have some portable and power tools. I want to build a workbench/table that will give me good height and size for the many operations involved in building a CBG.
Thoughts, ideas, suggestions?
Thanks for your help.
Peter
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Old Joe, is your storage unit separate from the workbench or part of the w.b.? What sizes are these surfaces? Can you post a pic?
Thanks for your help.
Heavy is good for a bench. If you really don't need to be moving it around, I would not put casters on it as it will be more stable without. The door idea for the top is good. You can also glue 2x4s wide side to wide side so the narrow edges serve as the top. You could then put 1/4" hardboard on top which you tack down and can replace when it gets too beat up. Hardboard is good as it is nice and smooth. Make sure you put enough cross braces under the top to keep it solid.
Here ya go Peter - On the left - a storage unit I never intended to use as a bench - being just above the belly button, perfect height for fret and electronics work. On the right - a salvaged table top screwed into some sawhorses I had lying around just below belt level. The two benches face each other - I'm standing at one, spin around there is the other. The 3 tier plywood shelving on each is repurposed, salvaged from the workbench I had used for my model train layout, which is now gone. CBG's are so much more fun! AND - heavy is better - if you are going to be planing or spoke shaving, the bench needs not to move. And have fun with your building! (Click on it to see the full photo)
Old Joe - CBGs are closer to my sweet spot than model railroading. Know anyone who wants to buy quite a collection of HO gear?
I notice lots of jigs and other job-specific stuff. Is that Harbor Freight floor mat?
Disposing of HO gear to finance the CBG hobby - Facebook group to sell HO gear / Kijiji / members of local MRR club / PayPal and postal service worked fine / sold stuff to US and Canada - took a few years was worth it. Floor mats are whatever was on sale - no complaints. Jigs - necessity is the mother of invention. Tools - reusing a lot of my MRR tools.
I have some of the HF floor mats. They are great for not much $. Also check Costco. They had some very nice thick mats for a good price.
My garage is converted into a workshop. Haven't parked a car in there as long as I've lived here. Every workbench and floor tool is on casters so I can move them easily and I also use a couple of the work benches as support tables when cutting larger sheets on the table saw. All of that being said, My table saw is 37" high so that's the height I built the workbenches to and it works great for me both standing as well as when I use the folding directors style chair i got last Christmas. Hope this helps and have fun building
Mark,
Thanks for the tips. Having casters on a workbench definitely can be useful as an outrun surface when cutting full sheets of goods.I'll put that into the mix of height and portability decisions.
Hello Peter. If you are still interested in a table. Check out Harbor Freight Tools. I just bought a table with light and 3 electric outlet mounted with a peg board back and 2 shelves. I paid a whopping $75.00. Here is my reasoning. I combined all materials to build a table and it would have cost over $100.00. I really like the table I bought and I bought most of my tools there. I put together a shop inexpensively and building guitars.
Peter, i recently made a bench on casters, but when it's in position i can flip down hinged beams to take the load off the wheels, they are spring loaded, so when i want to move it, i just need to push in the direction of the hinge and it rolls onto the wheels, i also have a removeable tool well cover in the middle so i don't have to clear the bench for large stuff, hand tools just sit in the well and materials pass over the well---http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/new-bench-1?context=user
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