Table Saw Base

Here a couple:

http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/gwurst/blog/4414

http://lumberjocks.com/topics/1789

Just search for tablesaw base

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Welcome aboard! Werner

I did a search for table saw workstation here on lumber jocks—you can click on “projects to refine the search a bit.

I must see what I can do in that area too, I need the storage space!!!

http://lumberjocks.com/search_results?cx=016283335483199634424%3A4na88symhay&cof=FORID%3A9&q=table+saw+workstation&sa=Search

-- Fred, Springfield, Ma

Here’s one that I built. I bought a 4” dust port at Woodcraft and dropped it into a rabbetted hole in the top. I attached the saw on top of it and ran the hose out through the side. The central compartment is plenty big to hold my tenon sled, several feather boards, some misc jigs, and my extra blades including dado set. The drawers have all the other stuff you may need at the saw like wrenches, top saver/boeshield, wixley angle gauge, throat plates, measuring stuff. The big bottom drawer has my saw blade cleaning tub, all the manual for all my machines, alignment tools, and a few other surprises.

I built the hook on the side for my sacrificial fence and anti kickback track. It also provides a ledge to hang my miter guages on. I didn’t think of it at the time, but the extra weight really adds some beef to the complete set up making it much more stable during use. I haven’t reattached the extension wings in these pix, but you get the idea. Next I am going to drop a router table on the right side.

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I build one similar to the one in shopnotes Vol 15 Issue 89. since I downgraded to a contractors saw I missed having a closed base and this solved that problem for me. I use a sq storage container that slides in the cabinet under the saw to catch the saw dust. it has a small drawer cabinet next to that to store blades and other doodads I need at the saw and at the end I have my router table and a cabinet under that. I found that this set catches my saw dust better that when I had my dust collector hooked up to the pan on the open base. plus it makes the saw considerable heavier. I was going to set up the dust collector to work with this set up but it does a good job just the way it is with out the hassle of hoses and it lets me keep my collector set up for the router where I really need it.

-- Joey~~Sabina, Ohio http://sleepydogwoodworking.blogspot.com/

Sorry I haven’t been able to get back here sooner, but everyday life always seems to get in the way. Thanks for all of your inputs. I think this will get me going in the right direction, thanks.

-- Werner, California