Workbench top: Torsion box or hardwood laminate?

[Popeye]

Maybe I just read over it, but I used a solid core door from a "big box store" for my outfeed/assembly table. Attached to the old BT3 cabinet. Also doubles a second router table. Heavy, flat and cheap. Pat

[JimD]

My assembly table/workbench/BT3100 outfeed table is a torsion box with top layers of 3/4 plywood - glued and screwed to the 3/4 plywood vertical pieces of the torsion box - and 1/4 plywood. The 1/4 plywood basically lays on the 3/4 and is held in by a few short screws and the oak edging. The bottom of the torsion box is 1/4 plywood. It has legs with fold down wheels ala Norm. I rarely use the wheels. It is 1/4 inch shorter than the BT3100. It's about 3x5 - all the space I wanted to give up in the shop. I have a cheap wood vise (should be bought a better one) on one end and some 3/4 holes for Rockler plastic bench dogs in the top.

Jim