[mikethedruid]

Don't feel self conscious about your work bench. Mine is an old steel desk I inherited from my Mother, She got it from the hospital where she worked last as a computer coder of medical records. She was a registered nurse, but studied computer programming in the 1960s because she realized that soon medical records would be computerized, and she figured right. Anyway, the hospital decided to re-do their offices, so my mother was able to buy her old steel desk very cheaply. I use it now as my work bench, and it works very well. I made some shelves to go at the back of it from 1x8 pine, to hold some of my equipment, and that serves just fine too. "If it works, use it," that's what I say.