Auxillary Workbench #4: Top

Sure looks like a huge sanding table you got there – or perhaps built into the floor ;)

If that was a full size bench it would weigh a ton!

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Looking great Tom.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Looks great. Keep it coming.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Hey scottb, it does look like a freakishly big assembly table that I’m building a full sized workbench on top of. LOL. Ahhh, pictures.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

I love playing with scale.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

I noticed that too…honey I shrunk table…. Nice table….both the mini-work and the sanding table.

I like all your dust control Tom…I think I’m shortening my life span everytime I work in my shop…gotta work on that soon.

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

Tom -

This is really turning out nice! I have been enjoying the process. I just downloaded the same plan from FWW.

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I like the blade guard. I still “use” my factory guard. By use, I mean that it is somewhere near the saw. I’m not sure where, though. . . I like having 10 digits, so I started making the guard that was featured in Shop Notes a couple issues ago:

I like that it is easy to get out of the way when needed and just as easy to move back in place. The vacuum port is nice, but not really why I went with the design.

-- Jeff, South Carolina

Don’t show the Festool sander again. You are making me jealous. Where did you get that huge MFT? :-)

-- John

Making that MFT wasn’t as hard as boring those 4 inch dog holes. ;) I had to show that sander. I’m not sure it’s made it into a blog entry yet. I will tell you, if I didn’t have that Festool sander, I wouldn’t have bothered sanding the top. With Festool sanders, you look for stuff to sand…they are just that nice to use.

Jeff, I like that guard. What issue of shopnotes was that in?

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