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For those of you that have been following me over these last 2 years, you know how I feel about shop furniture…. I love building quality pieces for my shop, some say they belong in the house, but my shop is my house most nights. If I build them right the first time I'll hopefully never have to re-do or upgrade them down the road, thats my though process! lol

I finally finished this project, actually it's been done for a couple months, I've just been waiting for winter to be over with here in OKC and a warm spring day to appear so I could spray polyurethane. I got a break Monday and took advantage of it, the other reason why it's taken me almost 7 months to finish was because I've been filming the whole build, start to finish.

Check out the video, hope you ENJOY!!!



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Lance nice work, looks like you cut it close on the sander clearance. LOL I like the latch idea on yours. I use my flip top everyday. I frist had my planer and jointer on it then put the 10 inch chop saw on insead of the jointer, then bought a 12 inch miter saw and put that on. I like the drawer on yours as well. Niice work as always…..
 

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This was quite a production! Enjoyed it, thanks rek
 

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Really great project. I love all the extra care you took to finish a shop tool cart. It looks like your wife/girlfriend was pretty bored watching you work. You might want to include her in future builds. I see your a man who likes the exact method of working, with the selection of gadgets/specialty tools. If I had more money I would have them as well but have to keep things on the budget friendly side.
One quick question, when you added the rod for flipping I saw that you routed the bearing into the side but in the video it looked like you cut some dowel circles where did they end up? Ok I lied I thought of another couple questions, is the rod just sitting in a dado in the top and only drilled a hole in the wood wrapping the top. Is the rod connected to the top in any way or does it just sit in their loose?
 

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Gr8 video…... Where's your safety glasses man???? Hearing protection tool.. Plz wear em.
 

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Nice job on this project and the video. I have the same questions as Pat and maybe one more. Did leaving the drawer slider's attached to the drawer when you applied the finish effect how they glide?
I have that same leaf blower It's a good tool to have around! LOL!
Hope to see more videos!
 

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The video was great. It was nice to see the project build from start to finish. It took seven months, huh? I hear ya. It's all about the journey, not the destination. The end result looks great. I too have a flip top bench. It's much simpler in design; basically 2×4s and OSB. It's not nearly as nice or well-built as yours, but it gets the job done. Keep up the good work!
 

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As always nice work and video Lance. You always inspire me to make some great shop furniture. But I never get around to it. I still haven't started the Incra router table. So keep making the videos this way i could have more things to put on my list as not made or started projects. Thanks
 

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Also where did you get those spring loaded barrel throw?
 

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Pat - Thanks! I used a freud 3/4" round over bit has my dado of choice, cut a round dado on each side of the 3/4" ply top, used the rod as a alignment while I glued them up, you don't see this in the video, i cut some things out, it was getting too long. I cut a 3/8" hole in both sides of the maple where the 3/4" rod would be sticking out, then used a flush trim bit to widen them to 3/4" so I could make them line up perfectly. The rod sits in self aligning bearings. The top spins freely while the bearings and rod stay stationary. Hope this answers your question.

Tony - I used blue painters tab to cover the drawer slides while I sprayed poly on it. Gotta love a lead blower for removing saw dust!!
 

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Roger - I know, sorry - I forget most of the time!! i'll make a better effort moving forward!
 

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Great work Lance. I made something similar but I classify it a shop furniture and it is lucky it got a coat of paint. At first it had the DW 735 on the one side and the other was an outfeed table for the TS. Then I bought the Rigid sander and the outfeed table became a platform for my sander. My planer is oriented 90 degrees different than yours. And I use a 3/8" metal rod through the side to hold the top from flipping. Old school but it works.
 

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Pat - I got the spring loaded barrels from Amazon. I get almost everything from Amazon
 

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The video was really wonderful. Good job. I enjoyed it a lot. Is that an after market riving knife on your table saw? I didn't think Ridgids could be retro fitted… maybe that's just my model.
 

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Todd, that was the standard knife that came with it, the insert was aftermarket (MDF),
 

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Building one of these currently. Very helpful. The best video of how to build one of these that I have seen.
 

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GREAT VIDEO. One picture is equal hundred words; how true it is after seeing your video. thanks for sharing.
 

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Nice, I never thought of the drawer when I built mine. Nice Touch!
 

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Great work! I'm sure it will come in handy! But be careful when running birch plywood through you jointer and planner, sometimes it's to hard on the knifes and it can copy the grain pattern when running other boards through.
Take a look at this video,
http://woodgears.ca/jointer/plywood.html
Again, excellent job!
 

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