The Mighty Nicholson - How to build / woodworking workbench 

man this scandinavian metal take on woodworking is so good, pls make more videos

Finally a carpenter with a good sense of humor. Nice job Cullen Crisp

This is a pretty solid little workbench. While once you figure out how it comes together, it is physically Easy to assemble ru-vid.comUgkxyFZUPFEey-PuqsPMxqaykBhgA1LWxFHh by yourself. But the diagrams explaining the steps are really pretty bad. I could not get the handle pins in all the way despite multiple attempts, so I just used a screw I had on hand for the 2nd handle. I could not get the first pin in further or pull it back out. You are supposed to hammer it in, but I had no leverage and the handle is plastic and I did not want to risk breaking it. I will get a lot of use out of the bench because of the convenient size and height. It does fold up nicely for storage. They even explain how to fold it so you don't get pinched...that is important!

I've got to say this. You are BY FAR the most interesting and entertaining small woodworking channel that I've come across in years. I really look forward to seeing more of your content and watching your channel grow.

This is by far one of the best videos I watched in a long time. Your presentation style and on camera persona are awesome. I'm working on my own apartment workbench as I speak and this was inspiring. Plus I love the Craftsman RAS. Great work Sir.

Very grateful for this detailed build video. Also, "the cut doesn't need to be perfect; it just needs to look good on camera." More!

dropping all the tools through the center gap was hilarious... love it

Now this is good wood working content and entertainment!

Good build video, thanks for making and posting it.

I’ve never seen a woodworking video that was more like a Sam Rami film. 10/10 Please carry on

I hve been looking at this bench for awhile, and this just may be the tipping point...

I've finally had a few days off and was bored because of an ice storm. This is probably the 30th video on building a workbench I've watched, learned something new on each one. I believe this is the one I want to build. I know nothing about wood working but I'm retiring soon and need a hobby. I look forward to having the time off and learning a new trade. Thank you for your video!

Laughter and good information! If school was like this I might have been a better student. My new favorite channel

The workbench is a tool that gets used on EVERY project

I have to say. The bench is beautiful woodwork. But the acting is the best part.

Love the chisel montage! My bench build started out as a Rex Eng Joiner's, but now has your beefy legs. Pretty awesome with 4 crow's feet to lock everything in; only 60" long and no need for diagonals. Time to work on my Jimmy Crochet.

What an incredibly charming channel you have. You deserve much more viewership. Love it, keep the content coming.

I like your workbench. You did a great job.

I admit I skimmed through this, but I like the researched background and the deadpan delivery.

love it the ease of use is so logical, great build , love your honesty,.

The entire mood of this video is perfect. Plus I wholeheartedly agree with your take on bench size and utility; I built my Nicholson 3 years ago and love it.

Great Video!

I like the video. Thought it was entertaining and funny. I might just have to build myself that type of bench

Awesome build! I like the grammarcy hold fasts and have a set I roughed the shaft with some 60 grit sandpaper to get more holding power. I also glued some leather to the contact area to be more gentile on my work. Also love the edit!

I rarely post but I had to here. Your video quality and content is great, keep it up! If you can pump out more content I really think you could have hundreds of thousands of subscribers in no time. Thanks for the video, this bench is on my short list now.

Your craftsmanship is easy to see from this build. I'm very much a novice but i plan to build this bench. Maybe with aa few fewer fancy cuts and joints.

This is a great video. I enjoyed it thoroughly.

Friggin awesome dude!

Dude, this video is killer. Those panel clamps are also killer.

First original build video I’ve seen in a while. Good luck mate.

Great Work Bench ! Enjoyed the video !

Boss video man! Useful too - I'll soon be building my first workbench, and will now hopefully not fall into the same pits thanks to you 👍🏻

GREAT VIDEO ! THANKS

I like those old book titles. I was checking some out on internet archive just yesterday.

Excellent video!!

"It's perfect" you say through gritted teeth XD haha! That was me banging my lumber cart together last night. I love your sense of humor! I'm glad I stumbled upon this video!

Subscribed! Thanks for sharing, enlightening and entertaining...one stop shopping rules!

I enjoyed the production quality

Interesting variation. Kind of like tools, workbenches, you can never have too many.......

Dude! Entertaining and informative.

Nice bench! A couple of power tool tips from an old carpenter...NEVER push a piece of stock though a table saw with the hand that is inline with the blade. All it takes is one slip or kickback for that hand to run into the blade. I tend to push with the right hand, maybe using a push stick if the piece is narrow. I use the left hand to hold the work against the fence, kinda like a feather board, with my thumb hooked on the table so that my hand can't travel forward towards the blade. And on the circular saw rip, if you grip the saw base (table?) at the front with your left hand you can use that hand as a rip guide, assuming the stock isn't too splintery. You can do very accurate rips this way. One final table saw tip, stand close to the table when ever possible...you don't want to be leaning forward towards the blade if/when something goes wrong, too easy to fall towards the spinning blade;)

v. entertaining, thanks

Nice job, thank you.

Very nice !

That's some fine southern yellow pine

I hope you won't regret bolting the legs to the the aprons. I promise the bench will rack eventually. I guess you'll get to make another video about fixing it. The old timers mortised out a dado for the legs to spread out the forces. If they were running short of time, they did without a rear apron. I sucked at making a tight mortise for the legs on mine, so I used construction adhesive, a ton of clamps, and right angle gluing cauls. After the glue set, I buried 5 4" long cut nails 1/4" below the apron surfaces. I also added a triangular brace on mine.

Nice design. I plan on combining elements of your design with Paul Sellers design to come up with a version that will work perfectly for my needs and space. Thank you!

Well sir I have started putting the legs for my workbench together my Nicholson workbench after watching your video quite a few times during the knee surgery recovery and I think I'm going to like it it's the first time I've ever built my real workbench I mean I've had plywood on saw horses and I've had stuff that I've had picked up out of garage sales and everything else but this is the first time I've actually built my own and I will let you know how it goes as time goes on

Great build. You're the most metal woodworker I'm subscribed to. Good to have the ebony-hearted craftsman back. Hopefully we don't need to wait another millennia for more of your marvelous makings through maleficent means, Mujin.

Took a night off from finish work on the shed. Wife said you need to relax and unwind. What do you want to do. I asked for coffee and sugar cookies. Well and time to re-watch your your bench build. Thank you for the entertainment and gift of your time Sir. I still laugh my ass off at the cat screech. Happy New Year.

This video rules, thanks dude

HOLY SHIT EVERYBODY GET IN HERE RIGHT NOW HE'S BACK!!!

“ITS PERFECT”. 😂😂😂 I’m dying 🎉

Man those panel clamps are freaking smart. Are you planning to make a video on them, or maybe sell plans for it?

Somehow I felt subliminally motivated to subscribe when I saw you using your 4ft level. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

I’ve gotten the legs glued together and my recurring thoughts so far have been: “dang I’m out of glue,” “wish I had more clamps,” and “having a workbench would make building this workbench so much easier.”

Awesome

Now that's entertainment!

A good Nicholson build video

Keep it up... subscribed

Good stuff, I like the style. The fart noises got me.

This earned a sub.

Hell yeah!

Loved the video.Oh,the bench is nice too.Great job!

Great stuff as always. Thanks for the laughs, knowledge, and metal.

This video is bad ass!!!!

Awesome video mate!! Aside from the actual bench bit of the video, my favourite parts were the lack of annoying acoustic guitar music (because every woodworker for some reason loves slow acoustic fucking guitars) and the old mac computer.

Unfortunately a 75 mile bench would have to contend with the curvature of the earth. If the top was flat, then the legs at each end would have to be ~937 ft longer than the legs in the middle (I’m assuming we would need more than two sets of legs for a bench this long). If all the legs were the same height, then the top would be a banana with a middle ~937 ft higher than the ends. Of course a certain amount of leg-length discrepancy or benchtop banana-ing is acceptable. If we say that 1” is close enough, then our maximum bench length is 1848 ft. Of course that’s a terrible degree of accuracy, so let’s for for 1/16” deviation. That gives us a maximum bench length of 422 ft.

Ok that facebench almost made my lose my drink 🤣

Instant sub. I'm hoping to build my first bench soon. I had discounted the Nicholson style. I might have to rethink now! :o)

Great build, enjoy!

This was really good! Thank you for the video. At first I was like "wtf is Müjin?" and then I remembered haha. Bench looks great and practical

Top G

I built one like this as my first project ever a few months ago with only some warped reclaimed lumber, a Japanese saw and a hand drill. It still holds up decently well despite my atrocious joinery, but I think I shouldve gone the hold fast route like you. Mine is way too light for a vise and having an apron makes clamps annoying. Also mirin guitar tone.

Where did you come from?!?!…I want more!! Awesome!

Metal AF! Great build, man! I really enjoyed your humor and presentation. Very well done and I liked how you pointed out common pitfalls like cheap hold fasts. It's great to see vice-less (less- vicey?) workbenches. The Nicholson bench is my next build. Thanks!

Good video thanks. I have just built a Nicholson for my shop and I like the way yours is put together. I cannot imagine using any other type of bench. Editing on a Macintosh Color classic... priceless

One rather obvious improvement: Make the legs adjustable in height. This allows the height of the bench to be adjusted relative to the work being performed. This can be accomplished using a set up similar to, for instance, a massage table's adjustable legs.

I saw the notification and I thought, huh, a new song from some Swedish death metal band I forgot I subbed to. Then I realized this is the guy who made the secret room in his foundation! (Are we getting an update on that?) Absolutely beautiful table! I hope your back is doing alright flipping that beast over like that. As well, I must give you praise for what I imagine are hours and hours of editing. The subtle Easter eggs did not go unnoticed. At least in this plane of existence.

When you going to show how those panel clamps were put together?

Your video reminth me of Mike Siemsen's old video exthept yourth bench more thexyier. See "Workholding on Viseless Bench" too.

Some serious clowning ... CHEEERS. Good stuff💪👍

This looks fantastic - I’m inspired. Quick question: how do you feel about a second layer of 2x planks on the top, to give the dogs more to bite into and make it more resistant to seasonal changes? What about laminated 4x4s?

Nice bench very cool build.

That southern yellow pine looks so satisfying when it is big and chunky with square edges 👌

Like the production and the bench. Hated the music but I hate most music in videos unless it’s a music video.

"It's perfect!" My wife and I laughed so hard. Looking at building (please, Lord, someday soon!) a Nicholson Bench. Loved your tips.

Here I am scouring YT for bench ideas, and then, THIS GUY, shows me the bench style I served my first 10 years working on. Duh!

Great stuff, it turned out beaut, and the video was as entertaining as I'd anticipated. So now I'm dreaming of building benches but at the moment it could only be about 2 foot long so I'll need to clear some space lol. Hard to believe it's been a year, but then it was a pretty "interesting" year.

Best thing about the music is it stops at 1.56 then at 9.39

Applying the glue was the best part of the video LOL.. Nice build!

10:10----INFAMOUS dovetail?!?! watch it there, young man!

this is sick. did you have to take out the plane stops when you re--planed the bench?

19:00 Could you add a bottom on 1 or 2 of you holes to fit smaller tools?

Plan to take off at least 2" off your worktop when levelling. That's my experience anyways.

After two or three years do you think the top will stabilize and stay more or less flat?

Beautiful traditional build.

3:37 How old are those duckbill clamps?

Where did you get the plans for those sweet panel clamps, I’ve been looking for a reason to buy some more junk from the hardware store to make a set myself.

Ok. So it’s been a while. How do you like going viseless on the mighty one?