Sjoberg Elite 2000 Workbench

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Price: $2,094.98 $1,999.99   

Product Feature

• Length of worktop: 71 inches; width of worktop: 23-5/8 inches
• Vise capacity 5-3/4 inches
• Assembly required
• Weight 268 pounds
• Shipped by truck in 2 cartons

Product Description

SJOBERGS of Sweden has been manufacturing top quality workbenches for over 80 years. Their entire product line of workbenches was designed to meet the needs of a modern day woodworker and to take advantage of the latest manufacturing techniques. The range of features is truly amazing and cannot be matched by any other manufacturer. The Elite series of workbenches is smarter and heavier than any alternatives on the market - anywhere! Designed and built by Swedish craftsmen of European beech, the top is over 3-1/4" thick in the center with a skirt of 4-1/4". All surfaces are treated with a premium quality enriching oil. The specially developed vises provide enormous clamping power across their full 23-1/2" width. Youll be amazed by their clamping speed, accuracy and smoothness. Suitable for right or left handed persons - in less than two minutes, the vise can be removed and fitted on either side of the bench. A double row of 1" round dogs work from both vises. Both benches are available with (as shown) or without a storage cabinet.

Sjoberg Elite 2000 Workbench Review

Outstanding workbench. The biggest problem is that it looks like a piece of fine furniture, so you may be hesitant to start banging away on it!

I considered benches from Pinnacle, Veritas, Ramia, Lie-Nielson, Hoffman-Hammer, Grizzly, and Laguna before eventually choosing the Sjoberg. In looking at the available choices, the sheer mass of this one attracted me -- the top is a full 3-1/4" thick, with a 4-1/4" skirt. Few others have that kind of mass. Even the Lie-Nielson has only a 2-1/2" thick top, although in its defense, the LN top is hard maple as opposed to the beech used by Sjoberg. (The only other contender here is the Grizzly 84" bench, which has a 4" thick top, but I eliminated it from the running because I needed something shorter than 84" and I read numerous complaints about the hardware on the Grizzly bench.)

I really liked the chain drive, twin-screw vise on the Lie-Nielson... But not enough to justify the nearly 1k additional cost! The vise hardware on the Sjoberg Elite 2000/2500 is quite robust, and I'm happy with it. Unfortunately, there isn't much information about this hardware available online, so I will add some to this review for potential buyers to consider.

The Elite's side and end vises are identical. They each employ a single acme screw at the center, with 1" by 2" rectangular steel bars at either side of the screw. The bars are held horizontally by what appear to be Delrin strips, and those strips can be tightened against the bars via two adjusting bolts. The end result is a smooth, tight vise with very little horizontal or vertical racking. (One of mine was a little loose, but a quick adjustment of the bolts corrected that.)

The vise faces are 23-1/2 wide by 4-1/4" high, and 2-1/2" thick. The rectangular bars are inset 6" from each end of the vise, so when holding a board vertically you have a full 6" of clamping surface at the left or right side of the vise.

The side-mounted vise can be easily relocated to the other side of the bench. The manufacturer's description says this can be done in "two minutes", but that's a bit optimistic. I would say 10-15 minutes would be a better estimate. The end vise cannot be moved to the opposite end -- so switching from a "right-hand" to a "left-hand" configuration consists of moving the side vise to the opposite side, then rotating the top 180 degrees on the trestle (only the front set of trestle legs have dog holes, so you want the side with the vise aligned with those).

Only the top and sides of the benchtop are oiled. This is probably fine if you have a heated, humidity-controlled workshop (yeah, doesn't everyone?). Most people will want to oil the bottom of the workbench and the dog holes (hint: remove the vise hardware so you can oil the wood above it) before setting the top on the trestle. Sjoberg supplies a bottle of what I think is raw linseed oil, but I chose to use a 50/50 mix of boiled linseed oil and turpentine for better penetration and faster drying.

The top is reasonably flat, with some slight crowning of about 15/1000 from center to edge. This may be due to the way it was stored/transported, coupled with only being oiled on one side. Who knows what conditions it has encountered between manufacture in Sweden and final delivery to me. I plan to wait a few weeks for it to aclimatize to my shop, then re-check and flatten if necessary.

The double row of dog holes down the length of the bench, coupled with the double-row across the bench adjacent to the side vise, provide a lot of clamping choices. But beware the dog holes are 1" diameter rather than the more common 3/4" -- and there are very few third-party dogs, holdfasts, etc made for 1" holes. The bench comes with (4) steel dogs, and additional dogs are available from Sjoberg in steel or aluminum (the aluminum are a lot lighter, and also less likely to damage a plane iron if you hit one). Sjoberg also makes a 1" screw-clamp holdfast that works really well.

All in all, an outstanding bench most likely destined to become a family heirloom.

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