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hey guys welcome back to bear mountain builds now have you been planning on building a workbench for your shop well have you thought about building a modular workbench that can be long like this [Music] and break apart like this and wide like this plus [Music] it's super sturdy now let's get started [Music] so a lot of you have tighter workshops where you can't really fit a miter saw table or a big old assembly table in there but that's where the design for a modular workbench really shines it can be put together to be as long as a miter saw table or be as wide as assembly table and you can split it up into two different parts it's really great it's super simple it's really sturdy and it just uses a single piece of plywood and some two by fours let's get started [Music] i'm cutting a piece of three-quarter inch sanded plywood into four equal sections with the grain running lengthwise with each cut i'm making sure to cut the overall length in half so that each piece is approximately two feet by four feet but this will vary depending on the original size of the sheet [Music] all right so i got my top and bottoms all cut out so i'm moving on to building my frame so i have a bunch of two by fours right here that i'm gonna send through the planer just to crisp them up you don't really need the plane two by fours i mean they're fine as is so if you don't have a planer don't worry about it but i like doing it because it really turns an inexpensive board into something that looks pretty nice so let's keep going [Music] so before i start cutting up those two by fours to be the legs of my workbench i thought it would take a second and just talk about workbench height so this is my assembly table that i built several months ago and i want my new workbenches to be the same height as this assembly table so i can use them all kind of in conjunction with each other now this table is 41 inches tall which is a pretty tall table but it's a great height for me when i'm six foot four however if you're five foot two it's probably a little bit too tall for you thanks so my plans will have this table at 41 inches but if you're a little bit shorter or you want just a shorter bench in general you'll have to take that into account so let's go cut up some legs [Music] the legs are made up of a long and a short piece to form a lap joint on both ends i'm starting with my short piece and covering it with glue using my glue roller which makes applying glue over large surfaces much faster and then positioning my long piece over it while using some offcuts as a spacer to make sure the lap joints are even [Music] i'm dragging my screws through the long piece since this will be the inside of the workbench [Music] all right so i have my leg pieces all assembled together and i went ahead and cut out the stretchers so it's time to start putting together the side frames but first i'm still growing my channel so i really need every single one of you that's enjoying this video to hit the subscribe button you'll be able to stay up to date on all of my videos and it helps me out a ton and i really appreciate it so if you guys could just go ahead and do that now i would think the world of you now let's keep going all right so i got my frame all set up and now i want to talk about lap joints really quick because lap joints are super easy to make they're really strong because all that weight going from wood to wood and they're really simple to assemble so for this first joint i know a lot of you guys don't have a bunch of tools on hand so i'm going to show you how i put it together with a carpenter square and a single clamp let's keep going [Music] first i'm just snugging up the clamp so i can still adjust everything until the outside edges are perfectly flush then i ensure that i'm square with my carpenter square and fully tighten the clamp i'm pre-drilling my holes to avoid splitting and finally i recommend putting these screws where i do since this will avoid interference with the pocket screws coming later in the build [Music] for a tight fit i'm using these construction wood screws that are designed to pull the boards together for the rest of this build i'll be using my 90 degree positioning clamps i use them for everything they are especially great for assembling joints and frames they make the entire process much faster and easier if you're into woodworking at all i highly recommend picking up a set or two of these i'll have them linked down below in the description [Music] [Music] all right so i have my side frames all assembled and i've gone ahead and cut out my cross pieces so i have two lengths one is shorter that's going to go on the ends like this and then i have a longer length that's going to go in the middle and that's going to brace the center of my top and my bottom now moving forward it's time to drill some pocket holes so i'm going to put two pocket holes on the ends of all my cross pieces and then i'm also going to go along and put some into the top of my cross piece and those are going to go up into my tops and my bottom and i'm going to do it along the side frame as well now let's get drilling [Music] when you're doing pocket holes over a longer distance i recommend making a measuring stick that marks the position of these holes that way you'll be able to get the same holes positions everywhere without having to use a tape measure so i'm almost done drilling all my pocket holes and i want to just take a second to talk about my jigs that i'm using so this is my usual craig pocket hole jig that i use it's great i love it and it works perfectly for me now for some guys that probably don't do as much woodworking this might be a little bit overkill so i'm going to be using this budget version that's going to be great for you guys that are beginners that it's really affordable and it's super easy to use so let's give this a shot [Music] [Music] when assembling the cross pieces i'm using my 90 degree clamps to hold each piece square it isn't required but like i said earlier it makes the whole process a heck of a lot easier and keeps everything perfectly square [Music] [Music] for the internal cross pieces i'm using two clamps just to hold everything flush to the frame [Music] alright we're almost done i've got the frames all put together and they are rock solid and super sturdy so now we're moving on to attaching some casters so this is my four inch caster i use the same thing on my assembly table over there and they are rock solid i really love these things i'll have them linked down below and what's going to happen is i'm going to be using this 5 16 by one and a half lag screw and i'm going to be using only three of the holes for mounting up and i'm going to position my caster three quarters of an inch away from this outside edge because i have some pocket screws coming through here so that will dodge those and let's get these assembled [Music] all right the wheels are on it's time to notch out the plywood for the bottom platform and then i'll mount everything with pocket screws for the top and the bottom let's keep going before i put my tops on i usually measure the diagonals and that will tell me if something is square so if my measurements between the two diagonals are the same or very close that means my frame square which this one is rock solid so it's good to go and i always like to start with putting the top piece on first because that will force everything into fully square [Music] so with everything clamped down i can start loading in pocket screws i'm using pocket screws to mount the tops up because i think it gives it a super clean look but if you don't want to do that you can just as easily drive construction screws straight through the top and into the frame so for this one i'll measure diagonally again this diagonal is about half inch longer than the other one which means i got to squeeze this diagonal in so an easy way to do that is use a ratchet strap [Music] we're good to go so now with that intention it's square and then once i put my top on and anchor it with my pocket screws it'll hold everything all square [Music] now another thing to note is i'm not gluing these tops to the frame that's because i want to be able to abuse these things and then be able to replace them later without destroying the frame [Music] i'm cutting notches into the bottom of the piece that are an eighth inch larger than the legs as long as the frame is square it should drop right in if not it might take a little extra persuasion [Music] i sanded the tops to 220 and rounded all the edges all right so i got my two workbenches all complete and they're ready to go now i can use these separately totally fine right now but the reason i built two is so i could use them in conjunction so i can put them together like this and use it as like a miter saw table or put them the long ways together and use it as like an assembly table now i don't have to do that with clamps all the time so instead i got these black latch clamps that i'm going to mount to the insides of my legs so that way i can latch these two tables together like this and it's going to be super easy and they'll be rocks all together now let's get these attached [Music] [Music] it's super fast and easy to connect and disconnect these workbenches plus these latches clamped a lot stronger than i thought they would i had originally planned to use two sets on each side but found that only one set was all that i needed for it to be rock solid [Music] this modular workbench is a great project for if you're just a beginner or if you have a small shop so i highly recommend putting this in your shop now as always hit the subscribe button so you can stay up to date on all my future videos if you enjoyed this video hit the like button for me and leave a comment i love reading your guys's comments they're awesome so keep it coming thanks for watching and i'll see you next time 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