The Dewalt folding workbench is once again a Home Depot Black Friday deal, priced at $89 with free shipping or in-store pickup.
It’s been this price in stores since the start of the holiday shopping season, and Home Depot’s website finally matched the promo price and added in free shipping.
I bought one a few years back and absolutely love my Dewalt portable workbench. It folds up when not being used, and I slide it under metal shelving for storage.
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The top has an X-shaped pattern with slotted holes, and I frequently use them with clamps to hold down workpieces. It has a grid of dog holes that can be used in the same manner.
Mine has a couple of (unintentional) holes from when I drilled into it, but it’s held up well over time. I would absolutely buy another one.
Price: $89
Update: Acme also has it for $89. (Use coupon TOOLGUYD for $10 off $79, one use per customer, code resets every 30 days.)
Need clamps? The 12″ clamps in this set have removable jaws and are a good match for the workbench. You can buy the 12″ clamps separately, but this 6pc set with 4 other clamps that don’t have removable jaws are a good deal right now.
Acme has the best pricing I could find on just the 12″ clamp, for $17 each. So that would be $34 for the two 12″ clamps (plus shipping), vs. $42 for the same clamps plus 4 others that can be used around the workshop (but not directly with the workbench).
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There’s another deal on Dewalt clamps, but they won’t easily work with this table. See: Home Depot has a Special Buy on Dewalt Clamps.
Vards Uzvards
Rockler sells their own 18″ heavy-duty one-handed bar clamps for just $12.99 right now.
https://www.rockler.com/rockler-one-handed-bar-clamp
Stuart
I like Dewalt clamps a lot better. Plus, I think 18” clamps would be too unwieldy. 6” are a bit short, 12” seems perfect to me. Try a mix and see which you prefer.
Vards Uzvards
What is great about Rockler clamps, one can use their specialty jaw attachments (item #GRP41568), making clamps better suited for use in some situations. Bessey has specialized clamps for the same functions – e.g. part ##s DHBC-12, EZR-SET – but then you need to spend money on all these variations. Maybe I was not looking hard enough, but I never came across anything similar from DeWalt.
Dave P
Have you ever had a Keter? Just by the looks of that DeWalt, the Keter has much sturdier legs. I’ve a couple of them and they certainly are sturdy. Maybe they are a lot more money; I have had mine a long time and I have no idea what I paid.
KeithInKC
I have a couple of the Keter ones as well. I think I paid about 70 each foe them when they were on sale. Very sturdy and I love mine.
Stuart
I’ve tested a Keter-made Husky workbench before. It was great, but the Dewalt has been faster and easier to setup.
There are lots of different approaches to folding and portable workbenches, and I don’t think any one design reigns supreme over the others.
I also have a Festool MFT, and it’s a chore to drag around. In theory, it’s better than the Dewalt, but in practice I use the Dewalt 20X more often.
Julian Tracy
I had a few MFT’s. They were so heavy, barely ever took them to a jobsite. And they are fairly wobbly unless you buy the leg stabilizers. Before I sold my last one off, I used the top to template a sheet of mdf and made my own “mft top” and framed it up with some 80/20 stock. No legs, but I have taken it on-site and used with benchdogs for cross cutting.
Alexk
There is a Keter folding work table at Sam’s Club for $79
Josephus
I’ve been watching this bench and they dropped the price by $10 today (total now $69.96 to be exact) so I may go pick one up tomorrow. Price good til Dec 26th.
Julian Tracy
The ONLY thing that matters on such a product is the weight. Dewalt doesn’t even show the weight of it on their product page. Looks probably heavy, so near useless for an on-site guy like me. Nothing can beat the original Husky X-horse. Dewalt made them in a steel leg version, much heavier than the orginal aluminum leg version and I’ve seen them with plastic legs, they are crazy wobbly compared to the original. Sets up in seconds, supports probably 500lbs+. About the only other option I might look at is the bora centipede setup with the worktop. I have a set of folding steel (bora-like) saw horses but never use them as they need to be used in pairs. X-horse is a one man show simple work surface.
Stuart
Home Depot says it weighs 24.25 lbs.
I’ve tested some portable workbenches that were not very portable – Kreg’s was the worst, weighing over 50 lbs, and it nearly took my finger off pulling it out once.
HH
On the Acme Tools site, they list the weight as 22.77 lbs.
Jerry Atrick
Old guy with weak back and I love these – bought a second one to have one at the house and the shed. Easy to carry, sets up in seconds, lets me work on stuff outdoors without having stuff all over the ground.
David
I bought a Worx Pegasus and the one and only thing I hate about it is its weight ≈ 33lbs.
I can’t imagine the Dewalt being more sturdy or having a faster setup since you simply open it and the locks snap into place on their own. The Worx is pretty neat – quite innovative…
But… I imagine that if I had the Dewalt and the Worx, I’d probably grab the Dewalt 75% of the time simply due to it being only 2/3 of the weight of the Worx. I despise how much the Worx weighs.
Julian Tracy
I’ll add, the Keter table with the Quik-insert aluminum legs is also very nice. Super strong and lightweight and simple setup.
Husky makes a version with a router insert. But you have to be super careful in the cold not to break off the red plastic leg retaining clips – they snap easily and Keter will tell you F-off if you call to ask for replacements.
Alexk
I have the Husky with the router insert. Probably 10 years old and I don’t baby it. Have left it out in the rain more than a few times and use it outside during the winter. Wish it had some dog holes and more choices for clamps.
I’m tempted by the Dewalt and Keter. Neither of them have the same height as the Husky, or I’d pick one to pair with the Husky.
Diego
Bought that 7 years ago when the price was $69. Still holds up today
My go to work table if I need in a pinch
Elmer
Uh, well….I’ve had a pair of the DeWalt Portable Workbenches for about 5 years, and one of the pair gets more of the work because it’s stacked on top. That one comes apart frequently; when one tries to close it up, one of the leg pivot brackets pops out of the slot in the workbench body locking up the folding mechanism. It’s possible to wrestle it back into place but guaranteed it’ll pop out again the next time it’s used. I keep meaning to set it aside and epoxy the pivot bracket back in place and see if that fixes it. In the meantime, my Husky table just keeps on going. The Husky is much slower to set up – the beauty of the DeWalt is its speed and convenience, plus it has dog holes – with an adjustable dog clamp it becomes very handy but the Husky is much more solid than the DeWalt.
GaryVA
I’ve had a half dozen Worx tables for years. Has all the features I need, easily portable, and they have a nice way to lash the tables together to make a longer, very stable work space. Each table comes with two kinda cheap clamps. They fit the tracks to provide a degree of holding strength and store with the table. All in all a decent setup. There are better tables out there, but these work for me.