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I came across these workbench brackets made by Eastwood. There 3/16″ thick steel and cost $99. They are laser cut and allow for the making of a extremely heavy duty bench with 4×4’s and 2×4’s. The price its actually pretty good considering these will last a lifetime and can be used over and over for different sized benches. The picture below isn’t my bench its from the website because I just ordered them today.
Those are pretty neat!
Jimbo
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Those look heavy duty [emoji1360]
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Looks like it would make the connections a little easier as well.
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I’m surprised they made them single sided. Usually you want support on both sides of the joist otherwise it can twist.
With 3/16 steel those aren’t going anywhere though. Definitely beefy enough.
Pretty cool !!!
I fail to see the point in these. You are spending money on connections where it is not needed. If you plan to upgrade a bench later again they are not needed because you will be buying new wood and can design the joint where the bracket again isnt needed.
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rrich1 wrote:
I fail to see the point in these. You are spending money on connections where it is not needed. If you plan to upgrade a bench later again they are not needed because you will be buying new wood and can design the joint where the bracket again isnt needed.Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk
But they look so cool!
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Rich you are correct that they are not needed but I still like them. Obviously you can use cheaper joining methods but those tend to be permanent and requiring scraping the whole bench if you want to change the size. With these you leave them attached to the 4×4″s and merely change the 2×4’s and in 15 minutes you have a bigger or smaller bench. I kind of like the way they look also.
What about those of us that are not a carpenter? I would have no idea how to make a joint that would hold together. I can buy these and still have a bench that I built.