Any plywood that isn’t bowed is good. Use wood screws that fit in the rack bracket right and aren’t so long they go all the way through the plywood. Mark all the holes first, then drill pilot holes with a drill bit smaller than the screws so they go will in all the way and won’t crack the plywood.

Hello mate, could you give more details about bolting a rack into 3/4 inch plywood? What kind of plywood? What kind of screws? I don’t know shit about these things, and I’m interested of doing this instead of buying a flat-foot rack. Thanks!

Hey David, thank you for updating the article with the drawbacks of using a weightlifting bar for the power lifts and vice versa.

Yet you do not take any position about what of the two is clumsier. I think using a weightlifing bar for the power lifts is worse than the opposite. What do you think? My question is more like a theoretical musing than anything else, as none of the two is ideal and both have their downsides of course.

By the way, do you think that using a weightlifting bar for the bench press could be dangerous as the “blowback” stemming from the whippiness of the bar could cause it to almost slam on you on the way down?

See here. I updated it with the drawbacks to using the wrong bar.
https://www.tworepcave.com/414/power-lifting-bar-vs-weightlifting-bar-whats-the-difference/

Can I ask you more questions? :) Let’s say that multi-purpose bars didn’t exist, and you wanted to do both the power lifts and the Oly lifts with a single bar rather than two. Would you choose a power bar or an Olympic Weightlifting bar? In other words, what’s clumsier: using a power bar for the Oly lifts or using an Olympic Weightlifting bar for the power lifts? I’ve been thinking about it and I’d say that the latter is clumsier than the former, but I’m not sure.

Oh, I hadn’t thought about that. LOL, I have a lot to learn still. :) Thank you for clearing this up.

That wouldn’t help much. A snatch grip is out there wide, but a clean grip is about the same as a deadlift grip. There is at least one bar, the Matt Chan Bar by Rogue, that has a softer center knurl, just the 5″ strip in the center.

OK. :) I’m surprised that they’ve not manufactured yet a dual-knurl bar featuring two different types of knurls, one more aggressive, between the center of the bar and the first ring marks, for the power lifts, and one less so, between the second ring marks and the sleeves, for the Oly lifts. I guess it’s too costly to produce.

Right, the rings have nothing to do with it.

So the knurling and its degree of aggressiveness is the same throughout a multi-purpose bar with dual marks? In other words, the type of knurling before one ring mark is the same as the type of knurling after another ring mark?