re: TIPS: the workbench build

Not mentioned above is the finish, once you get past the myriad of other details on the actual construction. To me, having a film finish on a workbench is just building in complications. As it gets damaged,flakes, peels, or whatever, you’re faced with repair or refinish. A better choice (IMHO) is a finish that has none of those detriments: to me, that’s using a mixture of beeswax (or parrifin), some solvent for the beeswax (turp or MS) and some BLO. The advantage of this finish is that to repair you simply wipe a new coat on top of the old coat. It doesn’t flake or peel, and best of all: glue pops right off.