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If you want straight edges I'd get a sheet of ply cut at your local b&q/other on their wall saw. Then glue&screw to the required thickness to get your boards. Paul sellers did a DIY woodwork bench in a similar manner on eBay.
If you already have the wood then £20 of Stanley no4 on eBay should get you close enough to flat.
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Cheers. Just to check, you mean replacing the wonky uprights with stacked ply? My only concern with that is the extra time required. As it is cleaning and cutting the uprights to length is a small standalone job I can fit in. Measuring, going to B&Q, screwing and gluing, then fixing is four standalone jobs. That said it would look nicer.
Thanks for the plane(?) suggestion.
And @Nef thanks for the reassurances about fixing it.
hugo7
Finally going to start on my work bench, as I've realised I can break it down into bitesized childcare friendly tasks.
Any comments on the design?
The orange lines denote what will be fixed to the brick wall of the outhouse. The idea being to use the building's strength.
I think I need supports at the bottom. But I started this design ages ago when I was teaching myself to use F360, so it may well be that I CBA to (graphically) make the supports for the bottom from unknow pieces - all the other pieces are pieces of wood I already own - one of the aims being to use what I have.
My main concern is any twisting or racking as it'll just be screwed together. I was actaully wondering about making spacers from dowels and screwing the uprights into the brick wall.
The cross pieces are 145x45mm and a bit under 2m long.
Constraints:
Cheers.