About the service
Every bench I weld starts with one measurement: the height of the person who will stand at it. A bench that fits sends the force of your arm straight down into the frame instead of into your back, so I set the top about 5 to 10 cm below your elbow with the arm hanging loose, which usually lands between 85 and 95 cm. Five centimetres of error turns an hour of filing into an hour of leaning.
The frame is welded from square tube, 60 by 60 mm in the legs and 40 by 40 mm in the rails, with diagonal bracing at the back and a lower shelf that ties the whole thing into a closed box. That geometry matters far more than raw weight: when you take a chisel to a seized bolt or drive a pin out of a hub, a bolted stand walks across the floor while a welded one stays where you put it. Welds are ground flush, and the frame is checked for twist on a flat surface before the top ever goes on.
For the top you choose. Edge-glued hardwood, 40 mm thick, absorbs a hammer blow and is kind to finished parts. Steel plate, 6 to 8 mm over a welded grid, is what you want for welding, straightening and grinding. Most customers take wood with a bolt-on steel apron at the vise corner, because that corner is the only place that really gets punished.
The vise sits on a doubled corner: a 10 mm plate under the top, a gusset running down into the leg and through bolts with countersunk heads, so a long bar on the handle will not dish the surface. Drawers ride on ball-bearing full-extension slides rated 45 kg each, with fronts of different heights for wrenches, fasteners and measuring tools, and a lock on the drawer that holds the measuring set. A perforated back panel takes hooks and small shelves for whatever you reach for every hour.
I fit a switched socket block and an LED bar under the panel, so the light falls on the work and not on the backs of your hands. Levelling feet with 30 mm of travel deal with a garage floor that slopes to a drain. Everything is degreased, primed and powder coated in the colour you pick, the wood is oiled, the plate can stay bare. The bench ships knocked down in three sections with all hardware and a printed sequence; assembly takes about forty minutes, or I can come and set it up. Lead time is normally 7 to 12 working days from the day we agree the drawing.
The frame is welded from square tube, 60 by 60 mm in the legs and 40 by 40 mm in the rails, with diagonal bracing at the back and a lower shelf that ties the whole thing into a closed box. That geometry matters far more than raw weight: when you take a chisel to a seized bolt or drive a pin out of a hub, a bolted stand walks across the floor while a welded one stays where you put it. Welds are ground flush, and the frame is checked for twist on a flat surface before the top ever goes on.
For the top you choose. Edge-glued hardwood, 40 mm thick, absorbs a hammer blow and is kind to finished parts. Steel plate, 6 to 8 mm over a welded grid, is what you want for welding, straightening and grinding. Most customers take wood with a bolt-on steel apron at the vise corner, because that corner is the only place that really gets punished.
The vise sits on a doubled corner: a 10 mm plate under the top, a gusset running down into the leg and through bolts with countersunk heads, so a long bar on the handle will not dish the surface. Drawers ride on ball-bearing full-extension slides rated 45 kg each, with fronts of different heights for wrenches, fasteners and measuring tools, and a lock on the drawer that holds the measuring set. A perforated back panel takes hooks and small shelves for whatever you reach for every hour.
I fit a switched socket block and an LED bar under the panel, so the light falls on the work and not on the backs of your hands. Levelling feet with 30 mm of travel deal with a garage floor that slopes to a drain. Everything is degreased, primed and powder coated in the colour you pick, the wood is oiled, the plate can stay bare. The bench ships knocked down in three sections with all hardware and a printed sequence; assembly takes about forty minutes, or I can come and set it up. Lead time is normally 7 to 12 working days from the day we agree the drawing.
