GGs

34 years ago I knocked together a temporary workbench made from a good set of
salvaged 100 x 100 KD hardwood legs, some salvaged 250 x 45 KD hardwood rails,
and a temporary top made of 40mm particleboard that was given a couple of coats
of shellac.

The plan was to add a proper bench top made of something more suitable when that
something more suitable showed up. Strangely, hasn’t worked out that way and the
particleboard is still in place.

Anything would be an improvement on the particleboard, but I’ve long thought
that if I could get hold of one of those laminated hardwood kitchen bench tops,
that would be the ideal material. They’re generally around 35mm thick, and
glueing 2 together would make a hefty 70 or so mm thick top.

A more likely scenario is that I just flip the particleboard top over because if
the other side lasts 34 years as well, that might see me out!

Mick Dowling
Melbourne Australia