Hi everyone,
I am in the process of building my first workbench for hand tool woodworking and had a question I was hoping you could help me with:
I have been hand planing and laminating douglas fir strips together for my benchtop in groups of 4. I was thinking that each strip would end up about 1-1/4 thick so was planning to do about 20 boards total to get a workbench width of about 24". However, now that I have my 5 groups of 4 boards each glued up I see that they are each about 5-3/4" thick. So my total workbench width would be about 28-3/4" if I used them all and I am afraid that this may be a little wide. If I only glue up 4 of the 5 groups of boards I will end up with a workbench about 23" wide.
So what would you recommend? 23" wide or 28-3/4" wide? This is a roubo style workbench a la Chris Schwarz's book.
Thanks a lot!