[Closed] Workbench - anyone fitted a vice to this one?

Doesn't look like it will be up to much abuse. I'd make one...

An old wooden school desk would probably be more suitable.

That looks a bit flimsy for much more than light duty. Now, if you were to add some diagonal cross bracing on the back & sides it would be ok. Also I'd fasten it to the wall. If your going to put a vice on it I'd use some 3/4" ply under the vice & under the worktop to sandwich it.

Whats wrong with a length of kitchen worktop, some 3x2 & some nice long screws.
In my day lashing up a workbench was almost a right of passage. 🙂

I'd rather build one based around either kitchen worktop or an old-style morticed wooden door. That pegboard looks a bit limited for a tool collection, too.

It's a meccano work bench.

I use a similar type of thing as a work bench, but I got a thick bit of Ply and added it to the top to make it more useful and then bolted the whole thing to the wall and made a steel plate with two bolt holes in it to support the vice over a larger area underneath the bench, it copes with everything I throw at it!