dusty wrote:I'm tough on the bench top because I use it a lot and for everything even some occasional automotive or RV repair but I don't think I need an angle iron edge. I haven't made up my mind yet but it'll probably be a hardwood molding.
It has to be soon because the top has already been replaced and the edges are vulnerable.
GOOD looking bench there Dusty. I wish I had HALF that much bench top space.
You could use an aluminum angle, sheet rock corners, wood corner molding or a 1X2. What ever you use, you might want it above the top by a eighth an inch to keep stuff from rolling off the top?
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beeg wrote:GOOD looking bench there Dusty. I wish I had HALF that much bench top space.
You could use an aluminum angle, sheet rock corners, wood corner molding or a 1X2. What ever you use, you might want it above the top by a eighth an inch to keep stuff from rolling off the top?
I was intending to acquire hardwood edging today and finish this project but my plans were derailed by company. Tomorrow I have to go to a seminar to learn something about "selling online". Then I get to do important things.
Edge the work bench with oak 1x2 and check to see if my pencil rolls off on the floor or back against the wall. If I haven't screwed up, it won't roll. The bench is suppose to be level. If it isn't....well, I guess I'll be back to using a carpenter's pencil.
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If you want something really snazzy...take 2x(table thickness +1/4")oak, square edged. Raise it above the table top by the 1/4" if you want. Counter-sink the screw holes 1 1/2" centered in the thickness of the top. As you ding the edges, grab your router and round over the edge. Ding some more, round over with a bigger bit. Ding it too much--remove it and flip it end for end and reinstall.
Of course this is a working, work table you have to work on to keep working...but it is wood.
Happy sawdusting.
P.
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Hey Dusty,
The hardwood is really the only choice. I just built a bench and used pine trim and accented the screw holes with walnut dowels. Boy it looked nice when I first put it together but now only one month into use the edjes are all scratched and dented. It is works as a bench but the hardwood would have kept it looking nice longer.
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I really like the look of hardwood, and in post 5 I said that I liked maple, which I do and use for that purpose. An alternate method might be to use a flat aluminum edge, flush with your top. This wood protect the edge well and wood knot damage your tool edges badly if you slipped.
Tim
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OK here is one more idea, maybe a bit of an extension to your plans but still it might be worth it...
Since you sometimes like to use the bench for things other then woodworking be it RV or car or the like, you might want to stop at a sheet metal place and get a sheet of material as deep as your bench and say 2 or 2-1/2 feet wide and ask them to put a bend in in the length of that front edge of the bench you want to protect. That will do a couple of things for you, first the front of the bench is protected, second the work bench gets a metal covering so it will be protected, and any grease and or grim is easy to wipe off and will not get on the surface below. You can store this somewhere out of the way and then pull it out before a project... it could be held in place with double side tape/magnets/couple of screws... or maybe it would just sit in place.
If you do look into this I'd get something that is heavy enough to support its own weight and lay flat.
Ed
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Dusty I read these posts and am reminded of high school shop class. Yeah I know that was nearly 50 years ago. I will always remember the sheet metal bench edges when I have anything sharp in my hands. I also remember the wood chisel I managed to accidentally dull on that edge. True if I weren't a clutz I could have avoided the shop teachers anger. I guess I would vote for the hardwood. My new wokbench already has a few dings on the front edge and both ends. fjimp
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