Benchwork at last !!!

I finally got a start on the benchwork yesterday.  After a rough start, I have to admit I'm pleased with the results.  It took awhile to get underway due to :  1)  Holiday commitments (no problem with those) and 2) indecision on what I really wanted to do.  The original idea was full benchwork and all that entailed, but the size of the layout doesn't warrant that much work.  After a lot of reading and thought -- I decided to stay with the L-girder concept but use wall brackets instead of legs on the wall side.  Here's the 1st 8 foot section:

If you magnify the photos -- you'll see it is actually level -- pretty cool...

I made it more difficult than it needed to be initially.  After multiple trips to Lowes (the guy in the tools section at the Red Bank Lowes is really nice) and a thorough dusting off of my lonshoreman's vocabulary -- I got about 1/2 of it done on Sunday.  I made another trip to Lowes today to get the one tool I was lacking and voila -- everything went much smoother.

The plan is to continue on this week.  I hope to have the basic benchwork in place by Christmas but that may be a bit ambitious.