You can read about this on my blog if you are interested.

Material: White Ash
Dimentional Drawings and Sketchup model available, free of course, via email.
dgs-info@d-g-s.com

Original Sketup Design:

Finished Prototype Unit:

A fun project made from reclaimed hard maple flooring. Several challenges to make it right were finally overcome. The legs are my design and I farmed out the manufacture to Steele Wroughtiron Works in Colorado. They did a really nice job at a VERY reasonable price. If you have iron work you need done the website is http://steelewroughtiron.com

This has been in the planning stages for a few months and I finally got to work on it last week. For my 10 year old Craftsman TS, today was the big day for its jump from contractor to cabinet saw. I’ve always loved this tool as it’s been a rock solid performer since I bought it from its original owner. Even its laughable rip-fence is completely useable and dependable once you know how to deal with it. (Within the next two days it will have been replaced as well.) The one thing that always drove me crazy was trying to move this 283 lb beast on the spindly mobile base it came with. I found this conversion design in one of the many books I get every month from the library and decided this was the time.

Tomorrow I begin framing in the router table that will occupy the right side of the cabinet. I will post more pictures of the completed unit when it’s finally done.

This has been a really fun project so far and I recommend anyone with the room for a conversion like this to go for it.

BTW – I took the chance to re-adjust the saw while I had it apart and it hums like baby now and really does pass the “nickel” test (although I did mine with a lock washer).

Looked at a few designs for these and finally decided to take a stab at designing my own. I drew it up in Sketch-Up but of course it was modified several times during the process.

My first effort at making square things with un-square lumber has been a real lesson. Although I read a lot, thought it through, planned carefully and took my time finding the best materials I could afford, in the end although it was all useful I still ended up making tons of mistakes. What should have taken a couple of days has stretched into ten full days and still plenty to go.

It’s been a real eye opening experience and I’ve learned a great deal more from the doing that the reading simply couldn’t have addressed. Hopefully I will get better and faster as I learn.

100% Oak carcass and frame construction. Shelf supports poplar

Joe