 I bought some 5x5 Baltic Birch and I have my current saw horses and they have in them the Veritas platform saddles and then in those platform saddles I have 8 foot 2x4s. So that gives me a foundation here to be able to do cutting. I then put my 5x5 plywood on here and measured 30 inches, in other words 5 feet is 60 inches so I measured 30 inches because my two tops are both 30 inches by 60 inches and 30 inches by 48 inches for the smaller one. So anyway when you cut the 5x5 exactly in half you get the two pieces that you need. Now in the plans I'm not sure you have 5x5 1.5 inch Baltic Birch available to you so I say in the plans to get a sheet of 4x8 Baltic Birch 1.5 inch and then you probably want to put them if you haven't built saw horses yet which you're now building you probably want to put these down on the ground on some 2x4s so they're supported or what a lot of people do is they buy some hard foam. I don't have a convenient place for hard foam. I have my corded powerful circular saw here. I have a perfectly straight edge and then I cut it with my circular saw and this is like 1.25 inch MDF and then this is a piece of walnut and so that makes a 48 inch circular saw track that I can follow for cross cutting. So anyway I have two different tracks that I built both of them designed specifically on one side for my corded powerful saw which I usually use when I'm doing breakdowns and then the other side is designed for my Ryobi cordless but it seems to bog down and run out of power so I tend to use my corded saw. So anyway that's what I've done here. I now have my 3.25 inch Baltic Birch which is 30x60 and then I have my 1.5 inch Baltic Birch which is 30x60 and I'm going to laminate them together and then I have my 4x8 inch 3.25 inch Baltic Birch 48x30 and then I have my 48x30 right here 1.5 inch. They're going to all get glued together and then tomorrow I will be putting grooves in them and dog holes and that will be a lot of fun. Okay, okay here's what I got going on here. This is just a little sound recording device since I don't have my lavalier on and my shotgun or shotgun is way across the room on top of my camera so it won't pick up very well. The first time I've used this we'll see how this works. So here's what I've got. I've got my 30x60 inch this is the 1.5 inch Baltic Birch and I'm going to put glue on it and then I'm going to set my 30x60 3.25 inch Baltic Birch on top of that and get it all lined up and then add some clamps kind of using the weight of the heavy one in lieu of a lot of clamps. So I'm going to basically laminate my 2.30x60's together 1.5 inch 1.75 inch as you know their plywood so they're actually both a little bit under that. So when I'm done my top for the pop-up workbench one of my 2 tops will be 30x60 2.5 feet by 5 feet and the other top which I'm also going to laminate together is a 3.25 inch Baltic Birch which is 30x48 and then I have a 1.5 inch Baltic Birch which is 30x48 so that will normally be designed to be a side panel with a lot of match fit dovetail grooves in it but it can also be used as an alternative top and in fact it can be used as a second top in other words you could put that on your pop-up workbench and then put the bigger one on top of that and that would give you let's see 3.25 plus 1.25 that would give you a 2.5 inch thick and we're going to do the dog holes in a way that they line up perfectly and then maybe some Gramercy hold downs will work in that 2.5 inches so that's what we're working on. I've got a little spreading device here usually I use my hands but this is an awful lot of stuff and I'm not going to fool around with the little bottles I'm just going to go with the big bottle because I've got a lot of glue I've got to put on here. You could use anything some temporary saw horses you could use the ground whatever in other words you don't have to have a workbench to build a workbench I just happen to have my workbench all covered here with some protective glue up pads from Rockler that doesn't cover everything so I've added some wax paper I just don't want to get a lot of glue on my really nice permanent workbench I'm really excited to get this pop-up workbench added and into my workshop so I can set up a real workbench out in the driveway in a nice summer days without moving this 350 400 pound dude so that's what I'm going to do now I'm going to go ahead and get the glue on anticipating when I put the other one on here that things are going to slide around quite a bit so I'm going to put some salt on there those are diamond crystals which act to hold it kind of in place not perfectly but better than sliding all the way around so let me add the salt and there's no problem it's not going to hurt any of the glue it's just going to dissolve all right now we're trying to get the three quarter inch on here I've marked it for what I want to be the bottom so this is the bottom I want to get it on as close to where you want it as possible not going to line up perfectly but we can always do some sanding and alignment when we're done my three quarter inch is ever so slightly bigger than my half inch and that's because the half inch was 30 by 60 and then I had to cut it and so I have a 1 8th saw curve and so it is actually 1 8 less I'm going to run a trim router over that later to make them perfectly the same you can just sand them all right now we're going to get the glue on this one and I think at that point I will stop filming you get the idea I'm going to spread glue all over this one I'm going to put the other top on it then I'm going to find the head some heavy items in the workshop and put those on top of all of these and then tomorrow I'll be ready to cut some grooves and dig and do some doll holes so it's getting we're getting there getting close to getting that puppy built