03-19-2016, 01:41 PM
Wild Turkey said:
Any other drawbacks?
You could end up with lots of little scraps that would demand to be placed in the meat smoker. I hate it when that happens!
Ray
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White oak for workbench tops?
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 You could end up with lots of little scraps that would demand to be placed in the meat smoker. I hate it when that happens!
03-19-2016, 02:46 PM
Ask if he has any Maple if that is what you prefer, you may be surprised. Oak may fill the bill for his barrel wood, but a lot of those guys also do a lot of pallet wood sourcing, that is any wood.
Worst thing they can do is cook ya and eat ya
 GW 
03-19-2016, 07:22 PM
The open grain would annoy me since I sometimes draw on the bench and sometimes draw in paper on the bench, so for me it's Maple. That said, I'd have no problem with a WO bench with 1/2" of Maple laminated on top. If the pieces of Oak are smaller the Maple top could tie it all together.
03-19-2016, 07:51 PM
My most recent laminated white oak bench top:
 Works great. About 30" x 101" overall. I enhanced the plans from ShopNotes a few years back. I added drawers, the lighted hutch, the vise, electricity, etc. Oh, and I also repair chains saws.
Rip to width. Plane to thickness. Cut to length. Join.
03-20-2016, 10:17 AM
Nice! I built a 10' x 20' outbuilding last year from lumber I sawed on my mill. If I ever get around to paneling the inside with the Pine I have dried, I want to build a bench on one end-wall similar to yours...for chainsaw maintenance. I only have two Stihl's, though.
If I had 8 hours to cut down a tree, I'd do it in 15 minutes with a chainsaw and drink beer the other 7:45 hrs.
03-20-2016, 04:38 PM
Shovel Man said: Maple dents, Oak splinters. Most of us don't abuse the top, but all in all, maple a better bet. Old chunks of bowling alley....
Better to follow the leader than the pack. Less to step in.
03-20-2016, 06:03 PM
I used quartersawn white oak to make the bench top shown above. For my cabinet bench, I used plain sawn red oak. Neither one has splintered. Both are tough as nails and heavy as lead.
Wait until you take a 1-3/4" x 25" x 96" long slab and lift it onto the top of the frame. Perhaps then you will find out. Thankfully, I added the four aprons later (these are even thicker) and joined them to the top slab and to themselves one at a time. And don't forget to beef up the ends for the vise(s).
Rip to width. Plane to thickness. Cut to length. Join.
03-20-2016, 06:11 PM
Edwin Hackleman said: It don't look like that bench has seen too many chain saws on it. Just sayin'
Definition of coplaner: It's the guy on the outfeed side of a planer handing the stock back to the guy on the infeed side.
03-20-2016, 07:28 PM
Some people pay a LOT (nearly $5k)
 for an oak benchtop. Must be halfway decent.French Oak Roubo Project
True power makes no noise - Albert Schweitzer. It's obvious he was referring to hand tools
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