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Mine is three layers of 3/4 particle board laminated together. The border is maple, and it sticks up 1/4". The final layer a is a replaceable 1/4" thick sheet of MDF. If you're careful gluing up the substrate you can get a top that's very flat. The top of my bench alone weighs something like 225#. The base easily doubles that. It's fairly stable.
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Mine is 2 sheets of 3/4" plywood glued and screwed together and then glued and screwed to a frame of 2x4s and it is rock solid. I can jump up and down on it all day long and it wouldn't even flex. Downside is that the plywood is a relatively soft work surface. I'm considering coating mine with some sort of epoxy or polyurethane to protect the surface from dents and marks. If I had to do it again, I might consider getting a cheap countertop instead of all the work I put into the plywood bench. (I admit that the labor was part of the fun for me... I love building things, but the convenience of a prebuilt countertop is appealing.)
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Another vote for a solid core door. I also put 3/4 particle board down on the face and MinWax polyurethaned it.
Legs are 4x4" with 2x6 stringers.
Solid bench
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Going to be beating on stuff on top? Cleaning carbs? Putting a bit of torque on it by working a reloader? Kind of makes a difference.
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fire rated wood doors on craigslist. 2-3 inches thick. I bought one 36x9ft @ 75. Nice oak veneer unfinished. (dang thing is heavy, took 4-5 people to handle it)
Sometimes people trip and fall down stairs.
Sometimes assholes push people down stairs.
That doesn't mean "stairs are bad" nor does it make someone who pushes someone down the stairs any less of an asshole.
lumber liquidators sells butcher block tops, they are harder than plywood or a solid core door can be sanded and refinished and will last forever.
i had left over from a demo we did on a kitchen years ago,
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I just took some left over hardwood flooring and built mine. The base is a tool chest with a plywood base layered 3 sheets thick. Added the flooring, sanded, trimmed and installed.
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