I've been needing a bench in my machine shop, i have have good size benches in both my garages but i don't have space for a big bench here, so i'm making small one and want to integrate two large tool draws, and steel rack for row materials, i plan to leave free space on the very bottom so i can place couple of boxes to store my small pieces of materials. Today i started by fully welding bench top, i used 3 mm thick hot roll steel for most of the top but wanted a thick strong piece to be able to use a hammer on, next i cut and welded the frame to the bench top, had to use thinner pipe on the thicker bench top and left the front facing pipe open, for later attachments, then i weld in couple of supports on the thinner part, as a last thing i managed to weld the bench legs and the foothings, tomorow i plan to continue working on the materials racks, more to come.