Free Plan: Garage Workbench
9 drawers, built-in router table, rolls on casters. Here are the plans.
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- 42-page PDF plan
- Full materials & cut list
- Step-by-step instructions
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- 16,000 plans, each with a cut list, measurements and step-by-step instructions. Furniture, shop jigs, outdoor builds, beginner to advanced.
- What to print first: search the library for a set of shop cabinets or a router table fence, the first two things a new bench asks for. Same plywood, same pocket screws, one more cut list.
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Most garage benches are an afterthought. A door across two sawhorses. A piece of plywood on a metal frame. I used that setup for years because building a real bench felt like too big a project.
This plan changed that. The bench is 72 inches long with nine drawers, a router table built into the surface, and T-track clamping channels on the top and all four edges. It rides on four-inch locking casters, so it rolls out when you need the room and locks down when you need a stable surface.
I put off building a proper workbench for twelve years. Once it was done, I could not figure out why I had waited.
Project at a Glance
- Work surface
- 72" x 24", 35" height
- Main materials
- 3/4" oak plywood, 3/4" MDF (top, two layers), 1/4" hardboard (drawer bottoms), T-track channel, 4" locking casters, drawer slides
- Build time (our estimate)
- 2 weekends (experienced builder) to 3–4 weekends (first time)
- Tools needed
- Table saw, router, drill/driver, pocket hole jig, clamps, random orbital sander
- Plan
- 42 pages, full materials list, component dimensions, assembly sequence
From the shop
The T-track inlaid across the top and down the edges is the detail that makes this bench worth building. Most workbenches give you a flat surface and leave clamping as a problem you solve yourself. This bench has clamping built in everywhere. The router table slot is fixed — drop the router box in for routing, pull it out for a clean work surface.
You came here for a workbench plan. Once it is built, the bench is waiting. The question every woodworker hits after finishing a major shop project is the same one: what now. A full plan library answers that before the finish has even dried.
What one of the plans looks like
One plan, front to back
Every plan in the library comes with the same three things: a cut list you can total before the lumber run, measurements on every part so nothing gets scaled off a photo, and step-by-step instructions from rough stock to finish. That is the layer this bench plan gave you, sixteen thousand more times.
The library covers furniture, shop jigs, outdoor builds and small projects, beginner to advanced. It works with a few hand tools or a full shop, and you keep it for good.
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Also worth a look: the technique layer
Woodworking Secrets is a printed book on layout, cutting, joinery and finishing, the part a plan leaves out. The publisher sends it at no charge and you cover the shipping. It ships to US addresses. On the order page there is a box for a trial membership that is already ticked — untick it if you only want the book.
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