Garage work bench material.

[arff]

I’ve used both solid core wood commercial doors or commercial steel doors with a wood frame underneath. Make strong, deep and heavy benches for medium to heavy use. Both take a beating. Those box store modular units look good but the work surfaces aren’t built for heavy use and you definitely don’t want to put any heat to them with the wood substrate. Most aren’t friendly for bolting a vise to them. Depends what kind of stuff you do on them. Gotta love the look and storage capacity for sure though.

I still have cardboard on work bench top since I installed the cabinets.

Don’t do a lot of big work in the garage but sxs oil changes.

Plan is to get a stainless steel piece to put on top. Bent with a backsplash and also bent down the front.

Cardboard does soak up coffee or spilled drinks nicely.

 

[neilsleder]

You’d get the stainless with the new age sets? Im torn. It’s obviously not going to be the same as custom bent one piece counter top. Thinking of getting one of each.

Kinda thinking about what’s better to repurpose if I get a custom top made in the future.

I would get the wood then when beat up put stainless over it. Build it out a bit farther.

 

[Tchetek]

I would get the wood then when beat up put stainless over it. Build it out a bit farther.

Too late! ’s. Stainless it is!