And the other thing about a green wood bench would be that you may need to
‘adjust it’ now and again.

Ask yourself what sort of work are you intending it for?   -  What does the top
have to do and why?   Mostly It’s so that you have an assured reference surface
that will support the weight of planing to allow the planed surface to be flat
and parallel to the bench top.

If you only ever plane up, say, joint stool legs, than you could make a sturdy
planing support, lay it on your wave top bench, and work happily.

Most of us like a flat plane of a bench top, and are happy to use stuff like
plywood or manufactured boards because they are sacrificial and will be flat -
and they can be cheap, and stable.

But nothing like as inspiring to work on as a gorgeous slab of something
figured, with matching wooden dogs and fittings.


Richard Wilson
Yorkshireman Galoot