Tired of having no storage in the shop and a workbench that was too lightweight to really work on, I set out to kill two birds with one stone by making a massive workbench with an abundance of drawer storage under it. I really didn’t want to spend a ton of money to get a ton of workbench (literally), so I let my mind wander out of the box and consider what materials could be used to make a cheap but heavy workbench top. It came up with: concrete.

Now for the storage segment under that bench top, that was pretty easy to figure out as I already had a set of drawers that I was very happy with and that hadn’t broke the bank. Borrowing the dimensions from the existing drawers, I calculated that I could fit 45 drawers under the 8 foot long bench top.

If you’d like to see more about the bench, check out the video below, and if you’d like to see how it was built, watch the video below the video below.

So you still think you wanna make one like this? It’s a lot of work, but very rewarding, so below is a Sketchup model off which you can borrow my dimensions.

Download model: Workbench.zip

Note: The .zip file above contains a Sketchup (.skp) file, so you will need to un-zip and extract the .skp file before opening it. You will need the latest version of Sketchup in order to view this model.

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