The Perfect Workbench & Ask Anything LIVE Stream 11-22-2021 Ask the Builder

Hi, how you doing? I am Tim Carter and you are watching Ask the Builder

And this is live. So nothing quite like live TV. And today I am going to talk a little bit about

just in the first part of the live stream about workbench design and a few construction tips

You might be surprised that it's really, really easy to make a few

mistakes when building a workbench. It might seem really straightforward, and I'm about to share

with you them a common mistake that people make. But before we go any farther, I want to thank today's

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Okay. If you have any questions today, it's also, it's Ask Anything Monday

Here we are just a few days away from Thanksgiving here in the United States. Really big holiday

It's a very light work week for many people, not all people, but many people, they work today and tomorrow

then they take the rest of the week off. They get like a five-day weekend. So I'm going to pretty much do the same thing

So we're only going to do, I'm only going to do a live stream today and tomorrow

and then I'll be back next Monday. So, and then we're ramping up to Christmas

My goodness. So it's right around the corner. So anyway, let's talk a little bit about work benches

But if you have a question about your own home you need me to help you I happy to do it Just type your question in the chat box and you be first in line to get your answer So go ahead and do that while I talk a little bit

about workbenchers. And if you have questions about workbenchers as I talk to you and I describe them

then feel free to ask those questions as well. I've built a lot of workbenchers, as you might

imagine in my career. I've built them for myself. I've built them for my customers. I actually

inherited. I use it now. I really cherish it. I inherited a really beautiful workbench from a neighbor of

mine. This is going back 40 years ago. His name was Ralph Cotley. And Ralph was a wonderful man

He lived on Robeson Road in Pleasant Ridge right next to me. And he had this, he was getting ready

to move. His wife passed away. and he was moving out of this big, big house, way too big for him

It was actually way too big for him and his wife. And anyway, he had this wonderful workbench in the garage

And he said I want to give it to you because I know that you cherish it and you take care of it And he was right This thing was so well made And it the same thing I would only pass this workbench when I don need it anymore It going to go to a family member

It's going to go to somebody who will really cherish it and continue to preserve it and act as its

steward. So some workbenchers are built that well. And you can build one like that. So let's talk about

it. The first thing, if you're going to have a workbench on a wall

the biggest mistake you can make. And I see people, I made this mistake early in my career

And here's how come the mistake happens. So I made the workbench like 26 inches deep and thinking

well, that's what a kitchen countertop measures, you know, 25 and a half inches. And I thought

with that, I mean, if it works for kitchen countertops, surely it would work for a workbench. Well

the trouble is, is that typically on a workbench on the wall, you've got pegboard

and it's a little too far to reach for the average person to get comfortably to get to the things

that are on the pegboard. You generally don't have trouble with getting things out of wall cabinets

on a kitchen wall because you're..