Great video. Straight and to the point. No fluff or chest thumping. Thank You.

You did a great job on this modification. My husband and I both have one in our hobby rooms. He modified both tables to accommodate our craft. Replaced the cheap slides with slow close that allow the drawers to fully open and we added custom pulls from Hobby Lobby. We both also have added storage but that has been customized to each of our needs.

Sir you are the freakin man !!! The tools you have and do with it outshines all the snobby shiny sawstop guys .. no no , not all of them just the ones that have ''em and barely have any sawdust or scratches on them .. you've inspired me to get off my lazy ass off n get my $4k jet cab saw, and create more and first to mod the same HF workbench too .. you rock !!! Keep ''em coming I'm telling everyone about you and your humble tools at such precision results If you're in dfw texas I'd like to take you for burgers and beer

Dude you rocked this build and gave me want I needed to pull the trigger and buy that bench and mod it myself. Good job balancing content and speed in telling your story. You are good at thiis. Keep going.

Great job with this! I can hardly tell this started as that harbor freight bench. You did a hell of a job brother

I'm new to this stuff and have so many ideas. Watching this build helped answer so many questions in my head.🤙

Thanks for taking time to make this video. You have inspired me to modify my harbor freight table. And wow, like the other comment said , awesome pocket hole set up!!!

As someone who knows nothing about carpentry I find it amazing to watch videos like this where people are so good at it. And the tools that I never knew existed... Can't help but thinking you were only a couple of pieces of wood away from a made from scratch bench :-). Pretty cool either way.

I like how you made the bench much more stable. Very nice video.

Great build. Im just getting into woodworking and setting up a shop and I think that tables perfect for what I’m going to need. Thanks for the info and guidance.

Looks great brotha! I am considering purchasing this bench and you just convinced me by making it deluxe! Thanks for showing me what can be done with the starting frame. You the man!

I was just looking at getting one of these tables, but didn't. If I had run across this video before I definitely would have. Great job and appreciated the video. Really liked the drawer cabinet.

I wish I had the tools and patience you have. That pocket hole tool WOW.

Might as well face it, you’re addicted to…work bench modifications! Nice work. Thank you for sharing.

That pocket hole machine is on another level of awesome. Also I will be getting one of those right angle bit adapters. Had no idea those existed. Just bought this bench and might be doing some of these mods to make it sturdier when I put it together

Hello Robert Thank you for the Great Video. I appreciate your thoroughness in the details. I've been looking at this work bench for a while now. My mind just wasn't sure this could handle the work I am looking to accomplish. Your upgrades will will strengthen the work bench. I look forward to seeing more from your channel. Again thank you

Thank you for showing the ways to improve on the work bench. You video was great.

You did great. I've been thinking of doing it similar. I found your video when I searched for ideas. You earned my subscribe. GJ

i just bought one and i am going to use alot of your ideas. thanks great video

Excellent video, I've been considering getting one of these benches, have some good ideas on it now. Thanks.

Nice work! You almost spent as much, if not more, updating it than the bench itself!

@ShopRamblings GREAT JOB on the build. I subscribed and looking forward to seeing any other builds you come up with

I love that drawer design! Simple and easy to make, and your dados are your drawer slides. I ordered the Rockler slides for the original drawers based on another video, but I plan to use your design to make drawers for handplanes and such.

I bought the new version of this bench today and put it together and have to say that I am very impressed for the money. I feel I got more than I paid for and I never say that. The bottom shelf is now solid wood like the top and can hold a lot of weight. It is true that dust can fall in the dog holes but I don't care.... I just blow out the drawers every few months with my air hose and clean. The table is very stable... which surprised me... its pretty heavy. I had the old version and it was wobbly... this one does not wobble. The vice is only good for small work but Im fine with that.... for the money, I consider it almost a freebie. The vise does have strong clamping pressure. I plan on putting a moxon vice on the opposite end for larger work. The drawers hold more weight than expected. The whole bench is hardwood... very hard and is easy to reinforce if need be. All in all a good little bench.

Lol I had no idea about those storage racks!!!! That is awesome!!!!

Very nice mods! I was leaning against buying because of the 4 cheap drawers. Now... looks like I'm doing this. Thanks for the vid!

I have the same work bench, this gave me some great idea's, you just gained another subscriber. Now to watch your other videos for some more great ideas.

Great upgrade. You did a great job Sir

awesome beautiful job. I'm going to use the original bench, as is, for an island in my kitchen. perfect size. I might just add a better finish on it. I love this video. Going to show it to my nephew for a lego storage bench....... you did a great job and a great idea. Thank you so much. Wish you lived in St Cloud, MN......

This is a pretty solid little workbench. While once you figure out how it comes together, it is physically Easy to assemble kzfaq.infoUgkxyFZUPFEey-PuqsPMxqaykBhgA1LWxFHh by yourself. But the diagrams explaining the steps are really pretty bad. I could not get the handle pins in all the way despite multiple attempts, so I just used a screw I had on hand for the 2nd handle. I could not get the first pin in further or pull it back out. You are supposed to hammer it in, but I had no leverage and the handle is plastic and I did not want to risk breaking it. I will get a lot of use out of the bench because of the convenient size and height. It does fold up nicely for storage. They even explain how to fold it so you don't get pinched...that is important!

That sir came out incredible, nicely done sir

Clever. Think I'll go do it to my Harbor Freight workbench. The drawers that came with it are useless. Thanks for the video.

damn great video. it had never occurred to me to make shop drawers like that - brilliant ! and that pocket hole driller... sweet. subscribed !!

Next level WIN!! Super work

Two thumbs up for this .....now I'll need one!

I love it great job you are definitely an inspiration thanks for sharing God bless you and yours❤

Great modifications. I have the same bench and need to make it shorter.

Terrific modification, structurally and functionally. Really shows the possibilities when you use creativity and skill. I envy your confidence that comes from experience. Great job on the video production, too. I happen to be in the midst of a project that similarly uses the drawer bottoms for support into dados on the side of the cabinet. The idea came to me one day (to save money on drawer slides), and I since then I haven't seen many other videos that use it. I like the way you've done it; your drawer design is a little simpler than mine (which is for a furniture cabinet). I see you chose not to fit the drawer fronts between the cabinet sides (as most conventional design advice suggests); I suppose this is because you don't expect much stress on that glued joint? (I'm a beginner woodworker, so just learning what conventions I can and can't break.)

Great upgrade! 👍

You should add a tool well. That helped my bench a lot. Great video.

Nive job just picked this work bench up today & was looking at some videos to upgrade & stiffen the thing up right out the gate. You have some good ideas especially stiffen up the top table with plywood to add some weight. I already purchased the rockler workbench casters for moving it around for mobility & being able to drop it on the ground for stability. Gonna add some extra drawers like you did. Overall nice bench for the money & a good foundation to build upon to make a decent garage woodworking workbench.

Really nice work, gonna have to pick up one of those and beef it up.

Amazing creativity!

This is really cool. I need a new bench and while I am not a woodworker I like simple woodworking projects. I keep hearing about this bench. I am going to use your design and thank you for sharing. I liked and subbed. PS: Your pocket hole jig is sweet! It might be the first thing I make on the new bench!

That came out great !!

Thank you

well done sir! would love to those kind of skills

Nice work...just subscribed and turned on all notifications.

Awesome upgrade 👍🏾

Absolutely awesome 👏

Gonna follow this and turn it into a baking area!! And add tile on top!!Thanks!!!😎🤙

Good work!

Loved this video.

Thank you big time

Frigging awsome!

Good job!

Excellent!

The drawers are genius. Simple, strong

Fantastic!

Came out good

Great job hoss.

Great skills

Gee! I want one of those!

Great work. We can tell you have a lot of experince. Your solutions are great. I wish I could just but a bench like this but it would likely be $1,000 or more. I subscribed because I like your solutions and you realize that people like quick information. Many videos are too slow.

Looks good!

Very nice great wood working

Thanks for a good video

You did great

damn, great work

God dang this guy knows what he’s doin!

Love it

I have two of these benches I want to modify. Great ideas!

I’ve had a Couple of them ,for the money it is what you paid for IMO , there will be a good chance something may be broken,Missing ,or need to be modified in some manner

That was great

Nice job. I’ll do it.

Nice

Nice mods!!

Nice!

Nice Job. Straight forward common sense upgrade.

nice

Loved the video, was thinking of getting one of these tables, they way you modified it was great. However, you need an outfeed table, watching you rip and dado those large boards was scary. Speaking of scary, watching you work with the router was also scary, please get some push blocks, your hands were close to that bit, I would hate for you to get hurt. I only say these things b/c a guy I work with lost four fingers to a miter saw.

Awesome video, Robert. I'm just hunting around for a woodworkers work bench and came across HF's bench. I like the mods you added to it. How are you liking it now?

This nice

Wow wish I had access to a shop so I could learn how to play with these tools.

Great video. Thanks for taking the time to share it. You mentioned that one of the flaws with the original bench was that the dog holds allowed sawdust to drop into the top drawers. When you added a sheet of plywood to reinforced the top you said you drilled the dog holds through the reinforced sheet. How did you solve the sawdust falling into the top drawer issue?

also, i forgot to ask in my previous comment, what size dado did you make for drawer slides? 3/4 " for 1/2" drawer bottom to facilitate drawer slide sliding without binding. Much appreciate your help with a newbie wood worker.

Great video! Did you end up doing anything to solve the issue of the sawdust and and wood chips falling through the holes into he drawers?

when you added the bottom shelf, you screwed and glued it to the bottom of the leg cross beams instead of the top of the cross beams, which i thought would be stronger. did you choose this approach to get more overall heigh height for the drawers? Thanks.

What attachment was that for your drill when you pre-drilled the leg support holes? I’ve never seen something like that before.

hi great project very good instructions. just wondering what type of plywood did you use

I stand corrected. I just went and looked at some with the drawers etc. LOL $845-$1700. Holly cow.

This looks great. Thinking about doing something similar, but I'm a little concerned with gluing the plywood to the underside of the bench like that... The solid wood top will want to expand and contract with seasonal humidity changes while the plywood will not, which can create stress in the top and lead the issues like cupping or splitting. How is it holding up for you so far?

I know this is old, but do those casters get in your way at all? Looking for ideas to move my bench around.

Have you been pleased with the wen track saw??

Where did you get the casters you showed at the end?

How thick are the legs? I want to add locking casters when I put mine together.

Can you still use the dog holes? Or you chose not to drill them out to keep sawdust out of the drawers?

just wondering, when you made your drawers, did you use 3/8", 1/2" or 3/4 plywood? thanks

0:40 That's to be expected from Harbour Freights. I bought a Benchtop Grinder with a plastic base... yeah the base was broken in the store already. But the idiot me didn't check on buying but 6 months later. From now on I only buy basic stuff from Harbour Freights and... I check it as soon as I leave the store.

Did you solve the issue of sawdust falling down the holes in to the drawers or is that still an issue?