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Ingenious Jigs I-beam Work Island This bit of plywood engineering can serve as a stout base for almost any kind of workbench or shop table. I seem to be setting up a lot of workshops lately. So far, our little band of pioneer aviators have set up two shops in Dayton, Ohio, where we are manufacturing the parts of Wright airplanes and assembling them, and a third shop in Kitty Hawk, N.C., which serves as a repair station to take care of the inevitable wing-dings these primitive aircraft suffer when you fly them. And because the heart of any good shop is its workbench, I seem to be building a lot of benches as well. With time and materials at a premium, I've developed a simple and economical design for a bench that we use in these shops. It's strong, true, offers loads of storage and with the addition of a few casters, can serve as a movable work island. We find this last feature especially important, because we must constantly reconfigure the shops as the Wright airplanes grow during construction. A Sandwich of I-beams The base of the bench is made entirely of 3/4" plywood. The plywood parts form three "I-beams," each beam consisting of two caps and a center beam. The shelves and dividers in the bench make up two small I-beams -the shelves become the caps and the dividers are the beams. These are sandwiched together inside a large I-beam that consists of the two workbench ends (the caps) and a continued on page 38 36 Popular Woodworking February 2003 |
