On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:56:55 -0500, Swingman wrote:

On 6/20/2012 4:48 AM, Bill wrote:
tiredofspam wrote:
Bill I agree with everyone else. The legs are too close together.
I also believe that your stretcher underneath needs to come out on the
side toward your work side. Since you have indicated you are using ply
for the top, your support should go close to the edge, but allow
yourself some clamp space. This will support your work better at the
edge if you wish to hammer a nail into something.


I posted 3 pics of the virtually-finished result, in case anyone would
like to see them. It's basically Swingman's design stretched to
58"L x27"W x 40"H. The height feels like it was made for me! : )

http://web.newsguy.com/MySite/

Thank you, again, to everyone who helped!

That should last you a while, good work! This is an effective, simple,
sturdy, versatile, and very inexpensive to make bench design which can
be knocked together in short order.

Only thing I would have done differently, and it can still be done in
ten minutes, it to add two screws to each of the short side stretchers,
into the end grain of the long side stretchers.

Every little bit of added stability adds to the total, and just 16 more
screws won't break the piggy bank.

How about a 3/4" plywood shelf on top of the stretchers. That would add a lot
of rigidity in side impacts and some heavy stuff stored there would help
stability.

YMMV ...

Thirty years from now you will still be using that puppy!