Believing that every woodworker should build their own workbench if possible, I set out to fulfill that belief. I had additional requirements of a bench other than the normal function. Due to space restrictions, it had to stand on the out feed end of my tablesaw and double as an extension table. Since the floor is uneven in a garage, there needed to be some way to adjust the bench height level with the top of the saw table. It needed to be "beefy" to handle all the pounding it would take and not move around much when planing or scraping parts clamped to it.   

I found a plan in ShopNotes magazine that I was able to modify to fit my needs. The base and top are made from solid 8/4 maple stock that I prepared. In order to add a little interest to the plain look of all that maple, I inlaid strips of 3/8 inch thick walnut in the legs and base. The top measures 5 feet long by 30 inches wide. The small walnut blocks at the ends of the leg feet have lag bolts epoxied into them. They screw into threaded anchors that are epoxied into the corner of each foot and allow the bench height to be adjusted.