realising what the chest part of the bench is for

[solarbird]

The chest part of the bench isn't going to be storage. It's a tool, in and of itself.

Combined with a heating pad, it's a warming chamber for the five or six months of the year when temperature down there is too low for too many materials. I can't get it hot with a heading pad, but I can get it more than warm enough to make glues (et al) work, and it's big.

(Though if I do buy myself that toaster oven, I may end up storing that in there. So there will probably be some storage, just not too much, because I don't want to have to unpack it to the ground to use it.)

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[kathmandu]

I never would have thought of that.

[solarbird]

I don't know if I would've on my own, but it was too cold for the glues I was using to reinforce the former-front-panel-now top, so I got the big cat heating pad and threw that inside with some towels to cover the gap just to see if that would do it? And it did!

And then I went "Wait, this generalises!"

So yeah here it is with the front panel open and some arrows where I put in the extra supports that I was gluing into place. (There are also some screws.)