It is finger-jointed rubberwood. It is used on many cheap imported tables.

ive got the 46" husky box that came with a wood top, & ive purchased a couple of 26" husky "replacement" wood tops to use on my smaller craftsman/waterloo boxes, & ive mounted a miter saw, a bench grinder, & a vice on these 3 boxes & havin drilled into them they all were definitely made of "Real Wood" of some kind ...couldnt tell u what type, but definitely not mdf or a cheap plywood... & im just a diy'er, but ill say that several years in, ive been very pleased with em so far, no warping or anything ...& obviously its gonna be a lesser expensive type of wood then what u might construct a nice guitar body or a nice piece of furniture or somethin out of, but these that i have are definitely real solid wood & have taken an absolute beating & are non-the-worse-off for it... thanx & god bless dude

Wrench Every Day is a very good channel, I've learned a lot from it. Unfortunately the titles seem more clickbait than I'd like, but I get the KZfaq game, and the content is great. Jared really knows his stuff and is a great teacher.

Great video!! Love when you tool reviewers actually respond to questions from us with an actual video!! Shows that little extra !!

I heard it was morning wood.

I purchased a height-adjustable workbench from Sam's club to turn into a router table. It had a thick top that had that same look. I routed out the space for the router lift to go and it was some kind of wood. It was definitely not MDF which was why I used a workbench instead of buying a router table. Most have MDF work surfaces and I wanted something else that was a bit more weather resistant.

I got a husky "workbench" recently to use as a 3d printer stand to consolidate the print farm. the top is the same type, 72 inches long and it is real wood too. I was curious and did not care as it is getting a silicone mat over most of it but was nice to see definite wood grain, played a little on the back side with sanding and gouging it, sure enough some relatively soft but solid wood

My workbench has the same top. When I bought it I had the same question but when I drilled the holes for the vise I could see it was real wood. Not fancy, but it works. I still want to get a mat for it, though.

Kind of reminds me of the first kitchen table I bought as a newlywed, except the table was a bit thicker and nicer beech wood, rather than rubber tree wood. If I'd kept it to make barrels with, I could make my own "beech wood aged" Budweiser. Mostly I prefer oak, ash, maple, and rosewood now. There are some half-decent and reasonably priced "maple butcher block counter top" slabs available at HD or Lowes now, suitable for all sorts of toolbox, workbench, and odd-door-size applications. Plus a wider variety available online.

In addition to minimizing material waste, using small cutoffs that are finger jointed together like this helps minimize warping.

It's rubberwood. They make cheap furniture out of rubber trees after they stop producing latex. They sell the furniture at places like amazon and world market. Then they take the off-cuts and finger joint them together. So it's the bottom of the barrel, but it works fine.

When I watched that video, the first channel I thought of was yours, thanks for the follow-up. 👍

I built a potable work bebch top with a double layer of 3/4 mdf then covered it with several coats of Johnsons Paste wax. It Is holding up very veil. If I mess it up all I have to do is flip it over and I have a new top, working very well for my use! I did not use any glue between the layers, just screwed it together with 1 1/4 decking screws. I did run an edge band made from 1x2 just for looks.

MDF and HDF make amazing workbench tops. My main bench is three pieces of 3/4 with crossmembers supporting front-to-back. The total weight with the 2x6 edge boards, and thick legs make it heavy enough for my big vise immovable. Danish oil soaked in to seal and keep oils out.

Even my cheapy kitchen island has the same exact style wood top, made up of a bunch of short pieces of wood. I think your guess about it being a way to use up left-over ends of boards that were used for other things is correct. Probably these are the left-overs that would have been thrown away but they glue them together to make these cheap wood tops.

Rubber wood sounds like a good guess. It could also be soft maple, which was my first guess looking at mine. You probably are right though now that I think about it. I was a 38 year cabinet maker. Soft maple and rubber wood look similar but rubber wood is considerably cheaper. Good call.

I just bought the Yukon mobile workbench. Mine is wood. Looks good too.

Good to see it is real wood. All those small pieces look like a great way to make use of otherwise unusable cutoffs. Inexpensive for a surface that is likely to be damaged.

Good job bear. Refinish the top and do a video on it. Shine on.

They have machines that make those finger joints and they can then use scraps and pieces and make real wood out of basically scrap. Personally, I think that is a LOT better MDF - and they're not susceptible to water damage. It's a wonderful way to get more material out of basically junk pieces of wood.

I have the Husky box....Bought it in 2019.....Was pulling it up an inclined driveway by the handle when the SUBSTANDARD WELDS FAILED and off to the race my tool box went....Damage was minor but, people should be aware that there's always sketchy details about overseas "bargains" FYI.....

thoseFinger jointing process is not A expensive operation as they are.done in Automated Molding machines now the part broken off in the video looked like a solid Wood Edgebanding although it’s not cut out of one solid peice of a tree using small pieces jointed and bonded together does still make it qualify for solid Wood Construction and in some manors can be more Stabiil than one large Slab milled from one tree in general most Wood products do not do well in a Exterior Setting without proper maintenance and protective coatings designed for that Enviorment most of the tops i’ve seen on Toolboxes in the Stores appear to have a light coat of a Conversion Varnish sprayed on them which is what most furniture Makers use for protecting the stains for Furniture meant to be used indoors for Exterior use it’s usually recommended that Wood has a Sand and Sealer applied than several coats of Spar Varnish applied over that to protect it from the Ultraviolet Rays and whatever else Mother Nature can throw at it for myself when doing Bright Work on my Boats Exterior Wood i generally apply in excess of 13 to 20 coats of Spar Varnish over that Sand and Sealer coat to achieve a Yacht Standard finish most certainly nothing i’ve seen on any of the Tool box tops available from any of the bigger manufacturers

The tops are made from old used pallets that are cut up to a specific size then they are grooved so they can glue the pieces together....cut it to size and sand it and put a bit of lacquer and you have a cheap tool box top

Everything I have researched about these tops is that they are made of rubberwood which is technically a hardwood, though is very low cost, and I believe indigenous in Asia. Which makes sense given where most of these boxes are made.

The flip side of the question would be...Why would anyone use a finger-joint for a laminate print? To me, it's not a very pretty joint. Please share if you disagree. But, the finger-joint should be a very strong joint because it increases the contact area of the glue surface. Most of your cheap, long and heavy butcher tabletops, that I have seen, use this joint. I presume because it needs to be strong, especially if they're using a cheaper wood that may bow easily.

If the Yukon were mdf then it wouldn’t have split from the weather, it would have swollen up.

Best video you have done in a long time

Outdoor box. There is a concept that wouldn’t work around me.

That will learn ya; take care of your stuff. ;) have a good one 👍

With shorter boards, you have a smaller chance of warping.

It's the same wood that is used on the HF woodworking bench. I've seen it used as pallet wood. It's a fairly durable wood. It has the appearance of a white oak but with a tighter grain. It machines well, is not too bad to hand tool work. Obviously a very plentiful wood in China. Eastern USA uses white oak for pallets, out here in the West it's a mix of spruce, pine or fir. I'll take the Chinese wood over any softwood, (fir,larch) for making small projects, pine being the exception. Say what you will, it isn't a bad wood. There is a reason it's glued up in shorter lengths, stability.

I almost got the Yukon two years ago at the price of $280 but my vehicle was too small to transfer it that time. Now it’s 40% moreI think I rather get it from the bid orange box then.

someone correct me if im wrong but i dont laminated mdf can have the chamfered edge and corners like you would find on those tops. thats why i always assumed they were real wood

was that a screwdriver you were using for a chisel Bear ???????? lol

I saw that video and wondered the same thing

Always just assumed it's scrap wood and cut offs from other builds. Never thought people thought otherwise...

Finger grooves are easy, it all fits in a jig and glued it's all real wood crop off the ends to fit one of the few wood processes that is higher quality with low cost assembly Probably takes 15 minutes start to finish

Asian hardwoods. I’m in the furniture industry and we see that style of woodcraft a lot

I bought some of this kind of wood for a project recently as it was the cheapest stuff available at Lowes. It's really not great quality. I had to take one back as it was split along one of the seams and I left one of the offcuts outside in the rain and it fell apart. So definitely not good quality. Probably OK for this kind of thing but If you're going to use it somewhere where it could get wet, it might be worth another varnish or just be prepared to replace it.

Also, the Harbor Freight are higher a quality build. Saw a video on both of those. Plus my Home Depot leaves them outside in the weather. The tops are all warped and I’m sure the drawer slides are full of grit.

I wonder if there is a way to take it off and replace it with 3/4 inch plywood or starboard?

Do you like the Doyle brand of pliers that harbor freight sales ?

What difference does it make , it's a tool box ,not fine furniture .

Yeah, It would've been bizarre if it were a bunch of little laminate pieces finger jointed together, or one big laminate piece made to look as if it were a bunch of little finger-jointed pieces. I definitely would've been convinced it was real without cutting into it

The desk I'm currently work-from-home-ing at, and typing this comment from, is a Home Depot height-adjustable workbench (the one with the crank on the right face). it's made of the same finger-grooved cheap wood like an Ikea desk would be... I've drilled quite a few holes in it to mount stuff, including a laptop holder on the underside. It's real wood, all right.

Just drilled into mine to mount a vise. Indeed not mdf.

It must be pretty thin, or maybe rubberwood is just poor quality if they have to finger join the pieces. I made a couple of maple workbenches that were about 50% blended, butt joined, and never had any trouble with them lacking strength or dipping in the middle over time.

OHHH BEAR! I Thought you were a real wood worker?!? I can't believe you didn't recognize these Finger Jointed wood planks. The machines that do this are giants, and were first shown over 10 years ago at the Wood Workers Conference and Expo in Atlanta, Ga. They are amazing. Yes, it's real wood, some high quality, Oak, and other types. You put random off cuts into one end of the machine and it planes, cuts and finger joints them into boards, planks or what ever you need. They even make industrial load bearing beams out of this stuff. It's a great way to eliminate waste, and produce good wood products cost effectively. Go down to Lowes or HD and you will see them all over the wood areas for sale.

I belive its Finger Jointed Rubberwood with laminate Jeff and Red @TheDenOfTools

wont warp

Wonder what kind of glue they use on something like that. PVA glue (wood glue) should have torn those fingers apart when it broke.

I have a Kobalt with a "bamboo" top, seems ok, but is definitely an engineered product. Can we consider this wood?

I would buy HF over Husky bc I love HF and hate Home Depot. And I got the Yukon 9-drawer (in white!) for $350 last month on New Years sale.

OMG the bear has human hands!

So the HF top is really wood- well, little scraps of wood glued together. Still wood.

It's wood Jim, but not as we know it...

Wrench every day? We are watching the same channels 👍🏼

I saw that video

Mine is made of bamboo strips

I worked for a furniture retailer that sold a lot of MDF furniture and the training material wanted us to explain that "MDF Is real wood and is used in a lot of household construction"

HF top probaby made from recycled wooden shipping pallets.

I just watched that video 2 days ago

I thought y'all moved to Vegas?

Typically it’s rubberwood. Very stable medium density but definitely not meant for outdoor use.

I thought flooring or cutting board manufacturers. Put in a big order and get a nice discount.

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The comments about rubberwood may be correct, but I thought some of these tops were made from bamboo.

It's called paper tree comes from Asia all the cheap furniture harvest tables chairs stools and cutting boards how to tell real wood is looking at the edge the grain will follow through most paint grade wood is finger joint they cut the knots out the wood is painted so joints do not matter.

Should use bamboo!

i own that husky box and IMO it sucks

It’s the very cheap rubber wood.

Looks like bamboo

Where are they made?🤔 That should give you an idea of the likely species . Probably an Asian type of wood. 🤔👍🏻😃

Harbor Frieght recycling their shipping pallets

For $400.00 you are not going to get a high quality hardwood butcher block top.

it's large size OSB... /sarcasm

I wonder if it's a wood-plastic composite ? I know it's not environmentally friendly 😉 but try burning that piece you hacked off and see what it does.

lol chinease wood