Bench rebuild

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted, and a lot of that has been trying to keep up with work and studies. Some particularly interesting studies will get their own posts later. However in the meantime, I did redo my bench!

I originally built a bench with a damaged ESD bench top that was getting thrown away. I built a torsion box to try to support it and straighten it out a bit. At the same time, I had to setup a job-site table saw every time I wanted to use it. My chop saw was on a saw-stand, but was still far from convenient.

I’ve seen several benches that do exactly what I’ve done here with the table saw, and I find this really optimal. But a lot of folks make their chop saw into a flip top, which I find really flimsy. I decided to wing it instead and build out a hing with a removable plug to put away my saw.