Height Of Bench. A tall workbench is good for detailed work cutting joinery and for power tool use. Bench seats tend to sit somewhere around 16 inches high.
Many hand tool woodworkers though prefer a bench 1 or 2 inches lower allowing more leverage for hand plane and chisel use. Bench seats tend to sit somewhere around 16 inches high. A bench doesn t.
Standard bench height for.
The standard height of 34 matches most tablesaw heights allowing the workbench to double as an outfeed support. A tall workbench is good for detailed work cutting joinery and for power tool use. Bench seats tend to sit somewhere around 16 inches high. As you can see in the drawing at top left the planing bench comes up to wrist height while the joinery bench is at or just below elbow height.