This was a great video. I've been watching a ton of stuff trying to help figure out what to build for my new bench and this was by far the best and most informative, plus we share the same name so it's no wonder it was good, lol. What is the style of bench you mentioned at the end of the video that was made with 16' dimensional lumber? I'm going to replace a rickety old second hand bench and this looks like a good option to hone my skills.

@gilmchaul

3 жыл бұрын

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@cerberus2881

3 жыл бұрын

I'm going to build this Moravian Portable bench. I have an Ash butcher block top for it and I'll buy 2x12x16 foot pieces for it, just as they suggest here. It'll be my first furniture build since high school. Did you build yours yet Josh?

Thanks for the info will definite use your recommendations when making my own.

Thanks for bringing a view of sense and clarity to what is normally such a... passionate topic!

So refreshing that you talk about the homemade bench tools,it's nostalgic, woodwork class at school,starting with the basics is the right way,unlike those who believe power first,if it's not got a 110 volt box, they don't what it is,traditional woodwork tools are things of great beauty, look forward to your future videos🤝👍😊

Much appreciated. Thanks for this vid. And especially the tip on buying the 16 foot lengths! That's a nugget I wouldn't have guessed, but it makes so much sense.

This is a great and informative video for someone looking to build their first work bench after years of moving makeshift tables across the room while planning.

I could listen to you talk about stuff for hours because you offer both opinions and facts plus you answer the questions most others don’t.

A wonderful video - thank you! I'm intrigued by the numerous workbench designs by craftsman throughout the centuries. I like the portability of this workbench and think this is a good design for me as I am needing something portable. I've been fine woodworking for over 40 years, growing up as an apprentice under my dad - a master craftsman, and have enjoyed every minute of it.Thanks again!

Fantastic, really well planned out and delivered video. Perfect for me, as I decide how to proceed with my work bench project. Thanks!

Thank you for making this video. You covered far more valuable information than I expected! Now I have to rethink what I've designed to include the gems I've gleaned from this to improve my bench even more!

This is the first video of yours that I've watched and my dude, I'm a fan. Great information and I'll definitely be indulging further. Let the workbench planning commence!

Thanks for the great vid Josh! Good information, right length and easy to watch your friendly attitude.

Great video, I work with metal but it is great to see quality woodworking tools and ideas.

Wow! That is as traditional as it can get! I remember benches like those some several decades ago when I took Woodwork & Technical Drawing for 5/6 years in secondary school!😯😄

Very well explained and understandable for me as an unexperienced wood worker, who want to make his own workbench. And especially the removable Moravian bench is cool to me!

What a lovely way to enjoy 20 minutes of woodworking wisdom. I'm currently setting up shop at our newly renovated home in a much bigger space than before. We have a ton of Merbau (very stable hardwood) from some decks we took down and I'm planning to build a few workbenches with it. As always, you have added some great wisdom to my ruminations and hopefully I'll be able to build something special on which to create more special things! Warm regards and thanks from Sydney - Dave

A fantastic video. Great workbench primer. Thank you. I REALLY like that it is quiet, straightforward, no music to "rev us up" and all the other video "tricks."

I'm currently building my own workbench (first time doing it). Thank you for your advices!

Great video and the openness about choices and preference motivate med to follow Joshua and his woodworking tips closer. Have to go get me a workbench.

I found this channel by accident a while back, and this primer on wooden workbenches is absolutely wonderful, and highly informative. When I was a UBC journeyman carpenter many years ago, I used to make my own on-site workbenches. It made life so much easier during the time the work lasted. I would use 5/4 boards tongue and grooved (by me), and I would stagger the edges, and hold 2 layers of the boards together with wooden dowels, that had each matching dowel hole slightly staggered, to lock the two layers together. On thing I always did; which I have seen that no one else does, until I show them, is to make 1 or 2 openings on the surface of the bench; all the way through the bench top. On some if I had the time, ( I always had time) I made a flush cover for the opening. With a hole in the center to just pull the cover off, and expose the opening when needed. My usual size was 5 x 8 inches. This made boring wood so much easier, because any boring of holes, was a cinch, since the piece to be worked on was fully supported, and secured with holdfast clamps. I just centered the hole I had to bore just over the benchtop opening.

As a newbie, I've spent the last couple of freezing cold months watching videos to learn about, well, everything! I stumbled across your video, it's been very useful to help me build on my as yet scant knowledge. Thank you.

Lots of good info here, thank you.

Don't know why you've never shown up in my feed before but subscribed immediately just now. Thanks for the info and advice.

By chance you answered my questions when I was considering making my own work bench. Thanks!

I found this halfway through building my first workbench, ugh! Great information, thanks.

Brilliant video. Thanks so much, I'm building a compact workshop, 2.5 by 1.5 meters with double front doors to open up the space. I've been trying to work out what kind of workbench to build, whether fixed cabinet style, or traditional. I'd seen the Moravian style before but your review of it has convinced me that it is ideal for my needs.

I am going to have to watch again. Found myself dreaming about a new bench and then missed so much of video.

@jlw35cudvm

4 жыл бұрын

K Rabenaldt : I do the same thing with a lot of videos

@WoodAndShop

4 жыл бұрын

LOL...keep on watching!

@kjohnson3505

4 жыл бұрын

you are not alone mate

@glen3257

4 жыл бұрын

@@jlw35cudvm me too. I truly have a passion and have my lathe, table saw, jig saw and more I bought as I do have a true passion (but lack any skill) and would love to be able to do things I see in so many videos!

@saramulry

3 жыл бұрын

Yup

Hi Josh, thank you for your clear video! God bless you!

Joshua - great lesson today. Love your videos and find them incredibly helpful.

Thanks for the informative info. I think you answered all of my questions I was going to ask, lol. I left my "architectural sheet metal layout" job of 20+ years to pursue a completely different career. I was always good with tools and measuring so I decided to work with wood as a hobby. I really need a workbench that's solid. I can figure out how to join them just by looking at your video. I just don't have all the tools yet. I subscribed just now so I'll be looking out for new vids, and thanks again!

Hey, I read those articles like 5 months ago, and then I just stumbled upon this video. Those were some great and informative articles.

Great video. I have now watched it 500 times. Living in a rental house, I figured the best workbench for me would be a short Moravian. I am so glad I made it. Learnt alot along the way. Thanks for your videos.

Josh, you got my sub before the video finished! A great collation, thanks, and I appreciate your proposals for referring to vise types in a standard way. You bring a lot together in one place.

@WoodAndShop

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you Lee!

Enjoyable to watch and very informative.

Incredible useful video. Simple and direct to the point. Thank you very much

Very good job in your presentation on this work bench design. I do like a cabinet underneath my benches for tools, however I can see possibilities for a removable/portable cabinet for this design. Thank you

Great video. A true workbench aficionado with an awesome down to earth, practical, reasonable mindset. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge . Very helpful .

I am about to build my workbench finally and this was very helpful. Thanks for making the effort.

@WoodAndShop

4 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help Paul!

Very informative. Appreciate the detail of your video. Thanks!

Love the vid. What I like about this one is how easily it collapses and transports. I recently built an english style workbench from rex Kruger, but may have done this one instead had I not come across it as late as I did. I haven't done any major products on it but I have to say that if you want to get into hand tools, a bench of this fashion is an absolute MUST. A couple of hold fasts go a long way. Mine is probably around 7ft long and 30in wide. Definitely didnt "need"to be that big. With the width and the fact that my top isn't laminated, I'm considering putting in a tool well in the center... tbd. That is the nice thing about the english bench, I can replace a board pretty easily to change the layout. I think once I have my configuration optimized, my next bench will have the solid laminated maple top. I wouldn't like that huge tool well at the end of the bench, only because as wide as mine is allows me to access both sides.

@BeasleyStreet

4 жыл бұрын

Yes,the width for a wood workers bench a lot narrower than you would believe necessary ,however a setting out bench is something else entirely, a large flat area where you can get all four sides at a pinch three is for a different purpose, but if you want it multi purpose then that is your prerogative 🤝👍

Well, I came here by hitting the enter key off somewhere else. I was a woodworker from age twenty to age thirty and looking to get back in as a small hobby. So refreshing style of teaching, I'm sure his students do very well. The workbench that can be broken down and yet comes from a traditional design is great. Glad I found this site.

Thank you. This video was very helpful in deciding which type of bench to build!

really clear, great views of the different benches, loved the video, soo covet those beautifully crafted ones in the school!

This is PERFECT timing... after a 12+ yr hiatus I am returning to woodworking. My old bench was a harbor freight. Since I left it with my old house, and have finally rebuilt a tiny shop at my current house, I'm going to be building my own suitable for woodworking, leatherworking, flyting, and any other hobby that may come along! I felt ashamed that I was looking at pine...the last few minutes of the video made me feel better about it! Plus I never realized about the 16' 12X lumber being from the best part of the tree, though it makes sense.

I appreciate your wisdom and experience!

Thanks for sharing this really good ideas. I have seen a easy and cheap design of a leg vice in this video first time. Before I just knew the complex French style of this vice with a scissors cross as counter bearing. Your easy design with just a sliding rail at the bottom end of the leg is great.

Wow this is exactly what I need as I start planning to build my very first work bench… SUBSCRIBED! Thanks

If ever there was a perfect place to start planning a work bench of any type this video is it. I watched looking for ideas for a sliding miter saw bench because I didn't want a high dollar flimsy portable contractor stand. I learned more in a few minutes than the previous hours of online research on manufactured tables, stands and benches. Thank you for such an informative video.

Amazing video, you convinced me on making one. Thank you! Just one thing to point out. Moravian's weren't a cult. We Moravians (Ethnic group in Czech Republic) have had difficult times with the Catholic Church since they executed Jan Hus. His teaching was to protest corruption among Catholic Church and their priests, that you shouldn't need to pay to church to be closer to God. Catholic church obviously didn't like that idea so they burned him alive and it started a Hussite Wars here in Europe. The ones who followed those teachings were labeled by the Catholic church Protestants, Heretics, Cult members and what not and many fled. Still Christians. It's one of the reasons we're among the most atheistic countries in the world.

EXCELLENT!!! THANK YOU FOR INFO! EXCELLENT DELIVERY AND PACE.

Great content and insights...thank you. (from just a beginner looking to build a basic workbench)

Really like this video, the Moravian table has me intrigued.

I loved your work bench video I could watch them all day I will be visiting your website absolutely thanks for the knowledge

@WoodAndShop

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you Jamiee!

Amazing explanation, thanks for sharing!

@WoodAndShop

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Firstly, I pay my reverence to your extremely wide and varied knowledge of so much that has to do with woodcraft. I thank you for this specific video since I´m preparing to build my own (first) workbench. I also admire and appreciate the manner in which you present the content of your video(s). This is probably an attribute of your vocation as a teacher of the craft. I wish you all the best and much more success.

@WoodAndShop

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words Winston!

Just watched your video and immediately purchased the plan. I know what I'll be making this month.

You are such a good person, also the video is very informative!

Excellent video Sir, appreciated.

A great deal of information, use cases, options and wow what great work you've shared!

@WoodAndShop

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped Don!

Wow! you just answer all my question about work bench! now I know what to do to improve on my work bench. thank you!

@WoodAndShop

4 жыл бұрын

Happy to help Toriil!

Very informative. I’ve been wanting to build a really nice one with a hardwood top for years to replace my beat up but very sturdy pine dimensional lumber one I built 25 years ago. You’d be amazed how loading dead car batteries on the bottom shelf will add mass.

Enjoyed the information video Joshua. Thanks for sharing your valuable information. Y'all stay well and God bless.

@WoodAndShop

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Ron...God bless you too!

I really appreciate your "un-dogmatic" approach. I'm working on a variant of a Roubo styled bench, 27" depth, 42" width and (borrowing from someone's idea that I don't remember), the height is the easy-to-remember 4/7ths of my height! :-) Nice presentation, and beautiful shop you have there!

This is the video and channel ive been looking for! Great and informative video!!!

Great presentation and thank you its been helpful.

Ok, I'm starting to watch this multiple times. Great.

Thank You for valuable information and for your simple explanation of the process ❤🌞

So much of information crammed into those twenty minutes. Will have to watch again. Liked the normal everyday kind of 'speak' without dramatics. Thanks

@WoodAndShop

4 жыл бұрын

So glad it was helpful Rajbir!

Nice. This video gave lots of aspects to think about before building a bench. I was wondering with the height aspect, and now also thinking of length and with as well. I would imagion there should be simple ways to raise and lower a work bench as needed. Simple and quick would most likely be favorable. Other wise a person may only use the adjustable sice to try different heights so see which one they like best, then leave it that way for the rest of its life. I was thinking with length and widths, there should also be many different ways to add and take away as needed. One such way is to have other work benches designed for the one of the two you may need. This way, quickly add and take away as needed. Sliding or rolling the 2 or 3 together. It may also allow a person to use the two as a vice as well. Though I would also imagin there should be simple ways to just add or extend table lengths as needed as well. I would imagin lots of people would love all these fun problem solving though experaments to find better ways to do things. And, to not have to keep rebuilding the wheel, but, even better to think what all ans how to add to it, or take away as needed.

This was amazing. I've just discovered the love of working with wood after my grandfather died and your website is a goldmine of useful information for newbies to the craft.

@a.omoose8946

4 жыл бұрын

you might want to drop that word 'newbies' from your vocabulary to start

@dagoelius

4 жыл бұрын

@@a.omoose8946oh look a brown shirt who feels the need to police a comment section. Must be going stircrazy stuck inside with no Antifa rallies to go to.

@WoodAndShop

4 жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with "newbies"

Thank you for the great explanation! It was very useful!

@WoodAndShop

4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

A learning experience that is the reason I watch this videos...Knowledge is important.

I am pretty convinced I would like the leg vise but as for the end vise I'm still trying to figure out which choice to make. Probably starting the build of my bench this fall. As for dog holes advise on size hole and distance would be appreciated. Great video, Thanks for sharing!

Thank you good info I as well am ready to build a new bench in my shop and found your video very informative thanks again.

I'm currently in the process of building a Moravian workbench from your plans, I have built the undercarriage and am working on the top. I decided to make it with a split top rather than with the tool tray, just to have the extra mass in the top. I plan on fashioning a shelf for tools that is held in some way by the long stretchers, but that will be after everything else is done.

I built one for myself and despite a few errors it turned out really well. Based on that experience, I built a different version (minus most errors) for my brother for his birthday. Best gift ever, and I was able to transport it in a suv to his place and teach him how to assemble it in a minute.

Great content! Very educational and useful channel I found! Subscribed! Keep up the awesome work and best wishes!

Thank you, thank you, thank you...times 10. Just a really great overview with a few very cool options I hadn't even considered for my first bench.

Brilliant summary of everything workbench

@WoodAndShop

4 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear Greg!

Great video! It's so informative.

Excellent overview. Thank you!

Very Good Video! Thanks! I have some more ideas to consider! Now if I can get my workshop built!

Thanks....excellent info and format👍🏻👍🏻

Excellent video Josh! Appreciated all the different features you covered and the open-minded favoritism outlook on this presentation of workbench wisdom. Now to read the article!

@WoodAndShop

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andrew! Yeah, I just want people to know that there isn't always a "right" way to do everything, but many ways.

Brilliant! THANKS -a lot! I'm shifting from teaching crafts in public schools, into starting a small mobile and flexible bisnes for "Pimping Workshops & Homes" and "Outdoor ABC" (Adventures, Boatings & Crafts)... Your knowledge & know-how, experience & wisdom, personality & style, tips & tricks will be a great recourse to me! F-ready the Finn, Go Forth Services

Probably one of the best workbench reviews I've seen and KZread overview of workbenches voices in general understanding these workbenches in their purposes. The one premise that he talks about a lot is the style of work you going to do one bench won't cover everything for everyone's preference! The one point you don't pick up the first time listening to this is the workbench and yellow pine is it a Furniture bench or is it a real workbench. There's a lot of personal preferences here nothing's perfect and nothing's absolutely they must it's all personal preferences from your style of working.😊

I love this workbench. Bought the DVD when it first came out. Haven’t built it yet but I can’t wait to. This will be my bench life. I originally wanted to I the Rubo. To heavy and to big for my needs. Not transportable at all. This Moravian bench is the best for my needs!

Really instructive video. Thank you

That tail vise that Will makes is excellent. I installed one on my Moravian bench this winter, what a nice upgrade. Plus I discovered you can clamp a smaller piece of wood in the gap vertically, kind of like the first tail vise you mention in the video.

@WoodAndShop

4 жыл бұрын

Right on!

Good video! Thank you for putting it on KZread.

@WoodAndShop

4 жыл бұрын

You bet Anthony!

I'm not gonna watch this but i will save it in my favs .In case some day i need it.Thank you guys

Beautiful work!!!

Complete!!! Congratulations!!!

Great video, thank you for sharing.

Great video, I'm starting out woodworking and have been following along with The Minimalist Woodworker book by Vic Tesolin and was going to build the Nicolson inspired workbench in that book, but I think I want something more compatible with a wagon vice. This video is really helpful in my research.

You have a very nice, relaxed presentation style. Good video.

This channel is golden 😍

Best workbench video on youtube!

@WoodAndShop

4 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks!

Excellent explanations.