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Here is my new miter bench that I built. I had to build it to organize everything in my shop so I would have enough room for all the new tools I bought. It's all made out of 3/4" shop birch plywood and is 20 feet long. 16 drawers in total all on 28" full extension slides which are already full of tools, lol. I made a box behind the miter saw to capture the sawdust and have my dust collector hooked up to that. It works great. On top I have the kreg precision track and stop system which works great. Definately an upgrade from having my miter saw on just the dewalt stand and it's nice not having to measure and mark out every piece, especially on repetative cuts.

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Really nice job, I love how neat everything looks.
 

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Now thats a great job done. Also great idea for catching the sawdust from the miter saw. Looks so great all your clamps lined up and clean looking shop. ATTA BOY AAAAA ++++++
 

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Excellent job. Looks great.
 

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Looks great! I like your stack of table saw inserts in the miter saw picture. I've been thinking of doing the Kreg track on mine too.
 

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Awesome bench. but I must say, you have surpassed me in number of zero clearance inserts ;-)
 

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just a miter bench are you kidden it look like you just build an organiest dreamshop deffently an opgrade

well done and it look butyful

Dennis
 

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OK, you've gone and made me jealous. You are much too neat and organized.

Thanks for sharing
 

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Oh man. Can you come clean my shop and get me that organized. What an upgrade. You did well.
 

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That's timely, as I'm thinking of doing the same thing. I'm tired of setting up/taking down the Ridgid portable stand.
Great job. By the way, how many zero inserts does one need. LOL
 

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A thousand and one WOW's!
 

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Really impressive. Well done. Must get to doing one of those myself someday. The miter saw dust extraction looks very worthwhile.
 

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Wow….That is really nice! I am trying to come up with a design to do the same thing in my small one car garage shop. I was thinking along the same lines, only a little simpler..not so many draws, and I don't have 20 feet…more like 12. Great job..well organized, well built. Be as proud of that as you would a fine piece of furniture!
 

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haha, yeah I have a few zero clearance inserts. I had a bunch of scrap 1/2" mdf so I figured I might as well make inserts instead of throwing it out. I usually use 1 or 2 a kitchen anyways. I made this whole bench so I can take it with me when I move someday. I am definately not leaving this behind.
 

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Very nice, I am going to build a portable stand for myself over Christmas, dont have the room right now for anything to stay in the one place. Just one minor issue… Get that DeWalt in the drawer and put that Makita on the bench! lol
 

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Is this heaven? I don't want to wake up. I wish I had a shop like this.
 

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Really a great job of organization. I can always appreciate a shop that's laid out to maximize the time you spend working with wood.
I'd send a picture to the DeWalt corporate HQ's advertising department, and have them reimburse you for the cost of the saw-LOL!
 

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Fantastic miter station
 

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Great looking miter station!

I do have some questions. What type of heater is that in the photo? Is it electric? Wherre did you get it? Right now I'm freezing in my shop and need a shop heater for my 600 sq.ft. shop.
 

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Thanks guys. The heater is a radiant natural gas. A couple of my uncles friends have an hvac business so they came over and installed it. It works great. I turn it down at night and it doesn't take long to heat the shop up in the morning.
 
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