How To Build this $300 workbench! Also for beginners!

I find this sort of scamming too irritating to discuss. Someone has a multi-million $$$$ shop and he's talking "cheap". 

Show us a handsaw and hammer, then do a workbench. I watched only a few seconds and the guy could have gone to his driveway and scrap wood, but I'm not wasting time to find out.

I have no idea, just that building benches is a popular topic on the beginner sub-Reddits and that a lot of YouTubers make videos about it. I was looking for feedback on this one.

I am building an MFT at the moment, Multi Function Table.  There isn't much point in arguing over nomenclature, but the idea these things are benches is fine with me, but the designation of table is more realistic to some extent.  From Festool, to Ron Paulk these things are quire popular.  They operate more as a form of table/jig, than what I take to be a bench which is more workholding and able to contain the violence of hand tool woodworking.  They replace a table saw for many users, or reduce the size of saw one needs to a printer sized one like the tiny Festool.  So while 300 dollars seems optimistic, they can be part of a cost controlled approach to woodworking.

I was surprised to see that in the UK one can buy these MFT table tops for about 50 dollars, from timber suppliers, so they end up as a low cost alternative, and their MDF comes in colors like black and green, which makes them look like they were made of granite, or high molecular weight plastic.

Woodworking is expensive, it is hard to get around it.  My dad basically had a table saw, an electric drill, and some hand tools, and actually built furniture that we were proud to have, but it existed within the context of a far less sophisticated market.  He enjoyed doing it, but it was purely practical.  It didn't occur to him that it was a hobby with a commitment to learning how to make dovetails, or "next year, Roubo Bench".  Even at his level it sucked up a lot of very expensive real estate in a place where the homes are currently 5 million dollars, though our neighbours in the 60s were a geologist, and a millwright.

I recommend Ron Paulk's channel, though the approach is for contractors, and in particular, finish carpenters.  One can still extract practical hobby level ideas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlVxC4YmKj8

Peter Millard of the 10 minute workshop has a lot of practical ideas from a small MFT intense platform.  Festool warning, though to some extent that is Europe's Black & Decker...  And companies like Wen have dropped the entry level if one wants to go that route.

Search for "MFT", or "bench".

https://www.youtube.com/@10MinuteWorkshop/videos

Full MFT tops can be a cost problem over here, and one might consider how many holes one really needs for general use.  Conventional benches get away with just a handful, and only a couple of the holes on a full MFT bench need to be very accurate for set-up of saw tracks, and they don't need to be 20mm, particularly if the track one is using comes perforated with other sized holes.