Been working on this table for a while. It’s a drafting table, built out of ribbon sapele. The table top is resawn sapele veneer. The legs have face grain on all four sides. They are glued together with lock miter joints, with stopped chamfers down their lengths. A little Stickley influence there.

Finish is a combination of two coats of two mixed Transtint dyes, dewaxed orange shellac, and 6 wiped on coats of Waterlox, with sanding in between when needed with 600 grit to remove dust nibs.

The top has the addition of 6 sprayed on coats of Target Coatings EM6000 rubbed out to a semi-gloss finish with Abranet up to 1000 grit, followed by Abralon up to 3000 grit, and finally polished with Menzerna 2L Pre-polish until a semi-gloss finish was obtained.

This comes from Chris Gounour’s plans in Fine Woodworking magazine, modified to work in my shop. Turned out to be nice, safe storage for the planes. I didn’t add the shelf he has on the bottom of his, thinking that I could always add it later.

The case of the till is made from sapele, with the back made of Baltic birch plywood. Finish is sprayed shellac.

The planes are a Lie-Nielsen bronze #4, a Lie-Nielsen #5 Jack Plane, a Lie-Nielsen #8 jointer plane, a Lie-Nielsen #51R Shoot board plane, a Veritas Low Angle Block Plane with tote and handle, and a Stanley Bailey Low-Angle Block Plane, as well as some Lie-Neilsen screwdrivers, and a Veritas Large Shoulder Plane.

Quick knock-down spray booth with 20” fan for water-borne finishes. 6’ horizontal capacity.

Works great with my HVLP system.

A sapele A/V cabinet I built for a flat screen TV. Space underneath for video games, bluray player, DVDs and Bluray discs, etc.

Ribbon (quarter-sawn) sapele with frame and panel sides and dividers. Veneered pomele sapele for the back.

Here’s my completed SawStop and Router Cabinet. I’ve added foldaway outfeed and infeed tables for safety and versatility.

This is based on an amazing similar table by Tedth66, who graciously provided me continual assistance as I built the project. This is a modification of his design, adding a few details, and making it work for my shop.

I have a 2 car garage / workshop that is tremendously space challenged, so I need to be clever about every square inch. On top of that, I enjoy modifying designs and making them work custom for me. So when I saw Ted’s great SawStop Cabinet and Router Table, I knew I had to build it.

Additionally, I just had to have better dust collection than the SawStop contractor’s saw provides. This design dramatically improved that. I have provided for 6” DC for under the table saw, with a dedicated dust cabin that funnels sawdust to the cyclone. Dust collection is roughly equivalent to a SawStop ICS and is amazingly good for the router table.

Under the saw are drawers to store the blades, wrenches, saw guards, and anything else I could think of.

For the router table I have installed an Incra Wonder Fence, and have a Porter Cable 7518 3-1/4 HP router that permanently sits in the router table, which is a Peachtree Woodworking cast iron router table wing. It has a separate dust collection box connected to a 4” DC run wye’d to a 2.5” DC duct for the above table guard. With my 5-HP cyclone, all is sucked up like a tornado. There are drawers that pull out under the router table to store router bits, wrenches, inserts, jigs, templates, you name it – there’s a spot for it. The router itself can be seen through a polycarbonate window, and I added a Wixey digital remote router readout to help with micro-adjustments of the router Woodpecker’s PRL-V2 router lift. In the future I might swap that out for an MLCS motorized router lift.

The outfeed table has a fixed portion which remains, plus a movable portion which pivots downward to save a huge amount of space so that the cabinet can be moved against the wall and I can use the garage/workshop to park my car. I made a simplified version of Tedth66’s design. His incredible auto-retracting version wouldn’t help me with my cyclone in the way, plus my larger ducting might have presented issues.

The infeed table retracts entirely under the front fence when not needed, with removable inserts with roller balls to aid in long ripping or sheet goods. The individual inserts were made so that the handle from the Biesenmeyer fence could clear the insert. All the tolerances on the cabinet were extremely tight, as there are a huge number of mechanical concerns with the saw tilting, handles needing clearance, etc…

The entire cabinet is built on 6 casters on a torsion box base, so handling the weight of the cabinet was a piece of cake.

All in all, I now have dramatically improved dust collection, a much smaller footprint, a huge amount of increased storage, a router table with an amazingly versatile fence, and both infeed and outfeed tables. I’m quite happy with how it came out.

For anyone wanting more details of the entire build, check out my blog at:
SawStop and Router Cabinet Blog

I’m like most of you. Trying to get every square inch out of using my garage as a workshop. Plus, I need to park my car in here. I also have lots of machines that use up tons of space.

I really wanted to get a drum sander, but had no floor space for it. So I took 3/4” plywood sheets and fit them to the top of my two tool cabinets. These were bolted to the metal top of the tool cabinets with 3/8” bolts, nuts, and washers. I then took a 1/2” piece of plywood and ran it the entire length of both carts and screwed it to the 3/4” plywood in many, many locations. Don’t want this lifting up with the big, heavy lever arm that the equipment presents.

Now I cut 1-3/4” butcher block tops for each piece of equipment, the Jet 16/32 Drum Sander, the Festool Kapex Sliding Compound Miter Saw, and a third pull-out of butcher block for future needs.

Each piece of butcher block slides out on Accuride 9301 heavy-duty slides, which are rated up to 500 lbs each. They are secured with 1/4” bolts, and are going nowhere.

Now I can independently pull out the SCMS for long pieces and not have it hit the cabinet next to it, or pull out the drum sander only when needed.

Simple, but very effective space saver. Plus rock solid