Best material to use on top of your work table
 

<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size: medium">Hello fellow builders,

Forget the other poll and vote here. I forgot to set a deadline on the other poll. Let me know what you use for building on. I don't mean the table just the material on top. Here is my new work bench with a solid core door for the top.

Thanks,

Barry

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1" foam, covered in velvet

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Pink Velvet Right Todd???

Currently using ceiling tile inverted. But think I'm going to try the homo stuff next. Homosote that is. Don't gete all worked up Barry. It's a joke. But am going to give the homosote stuff a try</p>

Warren
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I prefer to use glass or, to a lesser extent, plain old MDF.  I nearly always tack glue my projects right to the building surface and both glass and MDF allow for easy clean up to prepare the board for the next project.

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I have MDF on mine. So far so good.</p>

Kelly</p>

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Barry, looking at that workbench I'd put TWO types of material on top of it - boy one could use that table for open heart surgery!!!!  NICE JOB.

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I built a table out of 2x4s for a frame with a sheet of finish grade 5/8 ply. Then I used a sheet of 5/8 sheetrock on top of that. Absolutely flat and very sturdy. pins go into the sheetrock nicely and nothing shifts as I build.

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Thats exactly what I just did. Works great !!!

Dave

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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size: small">I am thinking of putting a piece of 1/4 tempered and polished edge glass on the table top and then the 1/2" Homosote after that. I like the idea of having the glass for the easy clean up aspect. I have a question about tack gluing parts to your MDF or glass. Doesn't that weaken the parts when a piece breaks off with the gluewhen it is removed? Just a question. I am not saying I might not try it. I just never have before. I have always used pins and never put them through the balsa. I stagger them on the outside to form the shape.

Barry
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I use an old hollow core door left over from a home remodel.  If I need to use a pin in it, I drill a pilot hole with a pinvise.  I have been using this method for 5 or 6 years.  And the same door as well.  Probably about 7 models built on it.  I would never use anything else.  </p>

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Jim</p>

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1/2" tempered glass.

Nothing comes close.

Throw yer T-pins away!

It's not cheap. Check it out on Dave Platt's "Black Art" videos.


mt

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A sheet of Homasote on a used hollow door has been my choice to build on,inspected a lot of doors tho with a level before I found one perfectly flat,beware they do vary quite a lot.Pinning is never a problem and they don't work loose or pull up easily unless you want to remove them.</p>

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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size: small">It seems like there are many different opinions on tables but the Homosote is still leading the Poll.
Barry</span></span>