Garden And Yard Build The Planting Bench of your dreams

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June/July 1995
 
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Materials

Hardboard
One 4' x 8' sheet of 1'4-inch-thick peg-board (or one 4' x 4' and two 4' x 2' precut panels.)

Three rough 2" x 4" x 8' studs to raise peg-board above floor or table for cutting

Number Two Pine Shelving

Two 1" x 8" x 6' for rear legs
Four to six 1" x 6" x 4' for front brace and top shelves

Five 1" x 4" x 10's for legs, trim and lower shelving (four can be rough or cosmetic rejects)—for lower shelves

Two 1" x 3" x 6's for legs and braces 50 ft, of 1" x 2"s in any length for cleats

Number One Hard Pine (or other durable stock for benchtop)

Four 4/5" x 4' x 10's or #6 4/5" x 6 x 10s.

Fasteners
1 qt, woodworkers' glue and small brush
Ten 2" drywall screws
100, 1 1/2" drywall screws
40, 3/4" #4 wood screws (fastening peg to wood)
20, 1 1/4" #6 wood screws (1" wood to 1"wood + 1/4" peg— countersunk 1/4 ")

1 lb. 1 1/2" galvanized #6 finish nails (rustproof to fasten benchtop that is subject to wetting)

1 lb. 1" common finish nails
1 lb. 1/2" brads

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3. Cut and attach benchtop supports and shelf cleats.
Fasten "cleats"narrow but stout boardson the sides and the back to hold the bench-top and shelves.

Decide how many lower shelves, upper shelves and shelf dividers and supports you want. Traditional would be one shelf in addition to the permanent bottom under the bench top and two shelves and a divider on top, but choices are many. I use the shelves to hold light fixtures and seedstarting trays that I move up and down as seedlings grow. You may prefer a single bottom shelf and a shelfless back; with an assortment of pegboard fixtures you can hang tools, install small shelves and attach other good things on the back and both sides.

Lay back and sides out flat in original positions-mugged together, feet along floor line, the back 3/4" above sides. Scribe lines or lay tape running from side to side along the back panel and both sides-one line along the underside of the benchtop, and a series of parallel lines along back and side panels and up the rear leg boards to define the bottoms of shelves/tops of cleats. (One cleat should go along the seam in your back panel if you pieced it together from precut panels.)

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