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So I have a fairly small shop, and storage has always been an issue. When I bought the shop, the previous owner had built a workbench in the shop sometime in the 70's. While not elegant looking, he built it to last out of a frame of 4x4 and 2x6 framing. He topped it with a solid 2 inch top, and the oddly enough, placed a sheet of plywood over the front, with three odd sized drawers and two different sized sets of doors in the front. Now none of the drawers were terribly useful, and the doors just hid the dust under the bench, so yesterday I decided to do something about it.

I ripped the front off, tore the drawers out, and made two spots under the bench 33 inches tall by 30 inches wide. I had always kinda planned on buying two rolling toolboxes to fit under the bench, but I'm a woodworker, so why not build my own.

To anyone that's interested, I'll post progress images as I go.

For now, I picked up two sheets of 3/4 inch sanded ply from Home Depot, and using my excel layout, ripped it down into 4 sides, 2 tops, 2 bottoms and 2 backs.

I always try to layout my plywood cuts to minimize waste, and I've found an excel spreadsheet works well for my purpose.
 
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