Benchwork Progress

Time has been scarce lately for layout building, let alone blogging about it, but over the past couple of months I have acquired the necessary lumber and fasteners, built the three 2' by 4' boxes that will together form the initial 4' by 6' table, and constructed one set of legs.

The tabletop is at a height of 40" above the floor. I settled on this height so that I could build the benchwork for the future expansion high enough to clear the access doors to the storage area behind the knee wall. 40" is above the bottom of the thermostat on the wall and I decided that it wasn't worth notching the benchwork to fit around it, so the layout won't be right up against the wall in this area.

Next up is to build the IVAR shelf unit that will support the front of the layout, followed by bolting the sections together to form the complete table.