re: Workbench/ Outfeed #2

If I understand correctly, the top of your cabinets won’t be flat when put together. You’re putting a heavy bench top on the cabinets. Why worry about it? It can be an inch out of level. Just shim the bench top.

You should see my bench which I plan to replace. I made it before I knew anything about anything. I saw something in the family handyman about a butcher block bench. I took a bunch of 2×4s that I salvaged from renovating and glued and screwed them together. No jointing, no special care except cutting off the rounded edge on one side of the boards. It’sa little warped and I set it on top of a bookcase that I reinforced and tied to the wall. I have an inch of shims on one side (partly to level it up off a pitched floor, partly because it’s warped). No one can see the shims without careful inspection and this sucker is not going anywhere until I decide to dismantle it.

The point is, don’t sweat 1/8 out of plumb for this job. It’s shop furniture and the only thing that really matters is the bench top. The rest of it (storage) is gravy.