Building a Bench using Additive Joinery

I think this thing's only I think this thing's like four half feet anyway let's get to work we're gonna build this bench using additive joinery. This is not something that I came up with there was a ton of YouTube videos out there. I'll probably link to a couple down below or as furniture does a lot of additive joinery with plywood Mike Montgomery did a workbench that it's similar this I probably used his design as the inspiration for this. This bench is gonna be a little different but a work that's as a workbench plus Mike's got better boots.

We're gonna build the legs first. One thing that's really important when you're building the legs is to make sure that you have repeatable cuts. I've set up my version of a stop block here if I'm a little off at least I'll be a little off on all four pieces so everything will still be the same length and you can work with it from there. If you just go out willy-nilly pencil lines and whatnot you may start line it up with just some way out of square stuff.

Next, we're gonna cut all 18 of the longest pieces in the bill. This will be 16 pieces for the top and then two stringers that run behind the bench. Next, we're gonna resaw all those two-by-fours to take off that round today. So after you saw that first side that second side should go a lot quicker. You'll have a flat area to reference when you go through your saw. Should be a little bit smoother push through a little easier.

Now I'm just gonna bring the fence in so our cut is going to be three inches what's up kids? So I'm out here with the old tabletop pardon the some shooting us on my phone I really not going to be out here all that long today in the shop. The Graham Lynn's are a little feisty today and are requiring a little bit more attention than so.

The results of the glue up are as follows let me turn this around we got some gas on the ends part of that is just just par for the course I don't have enough clamps that used cute they're my two big rock or clamps I need probably about four or six of those for this actual application. The good news is I did discover that if I take if I take this clamp and tighten it down right here I can pull some of those gaps together.

So here's what we're gonna do today we are gonna pour some glue and some of these bigger gaps and nimr you're going to crank these clamps down again and let it sit. I'm cold I never say that I live in Houston I moved here because hot so the glue did not go as well as I would have hoped so now we be seeing it oh yeah not only is it cold it is really windy so I apologize if this is messing with the audience.

I'm gonna take a break from the top because I've been seeing them for like two hours it's pretty good it's it just needs a little bit of touch-up so I'm gonna start working on the legs. Basically I got a 38 inch piece here what we're gonna do is additive joinery so so I'm gonna cut a 10 inch piece and put it down here and do that on all four and then we'll have our first joint. It'll make more sense in a minute.

All right now we're gonna start building our legs so we've already attached the 10 inch piece and I cut these 21 inch pieces so our additive joinery is gonna go like that. I'm going to screw it from this side screw it up from the other side and make one silo leg originally what I've done is I've measured this to be the same length as the top of the table but now I'm thinking that I might want to utilize the edges of the bench a little bit so before I go any further I need to cut this piece in this piece about let's see my arbitrary number fourth day is four inches shorter.

Let's do it that arbitrary measurement went from 4 to 6 it just seemed like level 1 a little bit more room and so those are now 48 inches. So that right there totally sucks my Japanese pull saw cut in a little bit too far took a big chunk out of it and I didn't know I was doing it until after the piece fell off.

So kids just make sure that you know where your Japanese pull saw is going and this won't happen to you. I don't want to cut any more off the end of this bench because it's a little shorter than I wanted it anyway so it looks like it has character. I've heard good things let's do this guys.

I was prepared to be super critical of this stuff but holy crap so good that's definitely my do go to finish it looks amazing check this out

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up kids new shop needs a new workbench so that's what we're going to build today I'm going to build it all out of two by fours it's it looks like that I want this front to be open so it's gonna be a little different than a lot of benches you see because I need to be able to put the table saw and things underneath it plans overkill already made one horrible horrible error when I measured out everything that I needed I was planning on buying six foot two by fours because those it fit better on the Jeep they don't make six foot two by fours so on the fly i recalculated to eight foot two by fours however given the link that I wanted the workbench to be which was five foot and I have eighteen of them and I need 18 five foot pieces it makes my legs too short if that makes any sense the offcuts are they're gonna be come out legs and I need 38 inch leg taking that five foot off there it doesn't leave me 38 inches so instead of buying six more pieces of wood which is just gonna be a lot of scrap I decided to shorten the length of the bench but it's just gonna be a little shorter the five was arbitrary to begin with so I'm not super concerned about it it'd still be plenty of space as a matter of fact I think this thing's only I think this thing's like four half feet anyway let's get to work we're gonna build this bench using additive joinery this is not something that I came up with there was a ton of YouTube videos out there I'll probably link to a couple down below or as furniture does a lot of additive joinery with plywood Mike Montgomery did a workbench that it's similar this I probably used his design as the inspiration for this this bench is gonna be a little different but a work that's as a workbench plus Mike's got better boots we're gonna build the legs first one thing that's really important when you're building the legs is to make sure that you have repeatable cuts I've set up my version of a stop block here if I'm a little off at least I'll be a little off on all four pieces so everything will still be the same length and you can work with it from there if you just go out willy-nilly pencil lines and whatnot you may start line it up with just some way out of square stuff next we're gonna cut all 18 of the longest pieces in the bill this will be 16 pieces for the top and then two stringers that run behind the bench next we're gonna resaw all those two-by-fours to take off that round today so after Yuri saw that first side that second side should go a lot quicker you'll have a flat area to reference when you go through your saw should be a little bit smoother push through a little easier so now I'm just gonna bring the fence in so our cut is going to be three inches what's up kids so I'm out here with the the old tabletop pardon the some shooting us on my phone I really not going to be out here all that long today in the shop the Graham Lynn's are a little feisty today and are requiring a little bit more attention than so the results of the glue up are as follows let me turn this around we got some gas on the ends part of that is just just par for the course I don't have enough clamps that used cute they're my two big rock or clamps I need probably about four or six of those for this actual application the good news is I did discover that if I take if I take this clamp and tighten it down right here I can pull some of those gaps together so here's what we're gonna do today we are gonna pour some glue and some of these bigger gaps and nimr you're going to crank these clamps down again and let it sit I'm cold I never say that I live in Houston I moved here because hot so the glue did not go as well as I would have hoped so now we be seeing it oh yeah not only is it cold it is really windy so I apologize if this is messing with the audience I'm gonna take a break from the top because I've been seeing them for like two hours it's pretty good it's it just needs a little bit of touch-up so I'm gonna start working on the legs basically I got a 38 inch piece here what we're gonna do is additive joinery so so I'm gonna cut a 10 inch piece and put it down here and do that on all four and then we'll have our first joint it'll make more sense in a minute all right now we're gonna start building our legs so we've already attached the 10 inch piece and I cut these 21 inch pieces so our additive joinery is gonna go like that I'm going to screw it from this side screw it up from the other side and make one silo legs originally what I've done is I've measured this to be the same length as the top of the table but now I'm thinking that I might want to utilize the edges of the bench a little bit so before I go any further I need to cut this piece in this piece about let's see my arbitrary number fourth day is four inches shorter let's do it that arbitrary measurement went from 4 to 6 it just seemed like level 1 a little bit more room and so those are now 48 inches so that right there totally sucks my Japanese pull saw cut in a little bit too far took a big chunk out of it and I didn't know I was doing it until after the piece fell off so kids just make sure that you know where your Japanese pull saw is going and this won't happen to you I don't want to cut any more off the end of this bench because it's a little shorter than I wanted it anyway so it looks like it has character I've heard good things let's do this guys I was prepared to be super critical of this stuff but holy crap so good that's definitely my do go to finish it looks amazing check this outwhat's up kids new shop needs a new workbench so that's what we're going to build today I'm going to build it all out of two by fours it's it looks like that I want this front to be open so it's gonna be a little different than a lot of benches you see because I need to be able to put the table saw and things underneath it plans overkill already made one horrible horrible error when I measured out everything that I needed I was planning on buying six foot two by fours because those it fit better on the Jeep they don't make six foot two by fours so on the fly i recalculated to eight foot two by fours however given the link that I wanted the workbench to be which was five foot and I have eighteen of them and I need 18 five foot pieces it makes my legs too short if that makes any sense the offcuts are they're gonna be come out legs and I need 38 inch leg taking that five foot off there it doesn't leave me 38 inches so instead of buying six more pieces of wood which is just gonna be a lot of scrap I decided to shorten the length of the bench but it's just gonna be a little shorter the five was arbitrary to begin with so I'm not super concerned about it it'd still be plenty of space as a matter of fact I think this thing's only I think this thing's like four half feet anyway let's get to work we're gonna build this bench using additive joinery this is not something that I came up with there was a ton of YouTube videos out there I'll probably link to a couple down below or as furniture does a lot of additive joinery with plywood Mike Montgomery did a workbench that it's similar this I probably used his design as the inspiration for this this bench is gonna be a little different but a work that's as a workbench plus Mike's got better boots we're gonna build the legs first one thing that's really important when you're building the legs is to make sure that you have repeatable cuts I've set up my version of a stop block here if I'm a little off at least I'll be a little off on all four pieces so everything will still be the same length and you can work with it from there if you just go out willy-nilly pencil lines and whatnot you may start line it up with just some way out of square stuff next we're gonna cut all 18 of the longest pieces in the bill this will be 16 pieces for the top and then two stringers that run behind the bench next we're gonna resaw all those two-by-fours to take off that round today so after Yuri saw that first side that second side should go a lot quicker you'll have a flat area to reference when you go through your saw should be a little bit smoother push through a little easier so now I'm just gonna bring the fence in so our cut is going to be three inches what's up kids so I'm out here with the the old tabletop pardon the some shooting us on my phone I really not going to be out here all that long today in the shop the Graham Lynn's are a little feisty today and are requiring a little bit more attention than so the results of the glue up are as follows let me turn this around we got some gas on the ends part of that is just just par for the course I don't have enough clamps that used cute they're my two big rock or clamps I need probably about four or six of those for this actual application the good news is I did discover that if I take if I take this clamp and tighten it down right here I can pull some of those gaps together so here's what we're gonna do today we are gonna pour some glue and some of these bigger gaps and nimr you're going to crank these clamps down again and let it sit I'm cold I never say that I live in Houston I moved here because hot so the glue did not go as well as I would have hoped so now we be seeing it oh yeah not only is it cold it is really windy so I apologize if this is messing with the audience I'm gonna take a break from the top because I've been seeing them for like two hours it's pretty good it's it just needs a little bit of touch-up so I'm gonna start working on the legs basically I got a 38 inch piece here what we're gonna do is additive joinery so so I'm gonna cut a 10 inch piece and put it down here and do that on all four and then we'll have our first joint it'll make more sense in a minute all right now we're gonna start building our legs so we've already attached the 10 inch piece and I cut these 21 inch pieces so our additive joinery is gonna go like that I'm going to screw it from this side screw it up from the other side and make one silo legs originally what I've done is I've measured this to be the same length as the top of the table but now I'm thinking that I might want to utilize the edges of the bench a little bit so before I go any further I need to cut this piece in this piece about let's see my arbitrary number fourth day is four inches shorter let's do it that arbitrary measurement went from 4 to 6 it just seemed like level 1 a little bit more room and so those are now 48 inches so that right there totally sucks my Japanese pull saw cut in a little bit too far took a big chunk out of it and I didn't know I was doing it until after the piece fell off so kids just make sure that you know where your Japanese pull saw is going and this won't happen to you I don't want to cut any more off the end of this bench because it's a little shorter than I wanted it anyway so it looks like it has character I've heard good things let's do this guys I was prepared to be super critical of this stuff but holy crap so good that's definitely my do go to finish it looks amazing check this out\n"