Up to now, we’ve been using an old 6-foot fold-up table we’ve had lying around for a long while. It’s been okay, and got us going through initially when we moved from the garage to the hangar, but it’s ever only been a temporary solution. Tables like that are pretty low, since they’re mainly designed to sit at. Way too low to work on the airplane.
So, I decided to build a better table. There are a number of great examples of workbenches out there, including what appears to be the gold standard 2’x4′ table from EAA chapter 1000. It’s very sturdy, using doubled-up 2x4s for legs. I considered building a couple, but they’re too small for me, and seemed a little over-engineered. So, I designed my own.
What I finally ended up with is a fairly simple table that is 3’x6′, 30″ tall, with a nice melamine-finished 3/4″ fibreboard top. I added a low shelf as well, because I figured it’d be a good place to keep parts and tools so that the workspace isn’t always cluttered.
Here are some pics of the build process. I designed it for easy building, using only 2.5″ wood decking screws.
