Assembly table cabinet - done for now

[drumpriest]

For quite a while I had a pair of saw horses under my torsion box assembly table. I have finally gotten around to building a proper cabinet for under it. It is nothing fancy, just some frame and panel made from cheap plywood. Joinery is mortise and loose tenon as well as pocket screws. I figured that there would be a good deal of weight on it, considering the assembly table itself is 100+ lbs, plus projects...

I will be adding doors to the compressor area, but not right away, other fish to fry, as well as installing some peg board over the inset panels for hanging storage. The casters are 150 lb jobs from Grizzly, they seem to work really well, and were cheap enough.

Here are some pics...

[wardprobst]

Nice work. You may want to try the pegboard before permanently attaching, I had some on a similar cabinet that was problematic.
DP

[Larryl]

Looks great and lots of utility too.

[Pappy]

Looks good, Keith. Is there a specific purpose for the open area at the top?

[Duff]

THAT almost inspires me. Not a slam in the least. I'm hard to motivate. Very useful tool you have there!

[lrogers]

Very cool.

[drumpriest]

Thanks all, Pappy, the area at the top is to hold some vacuum platens, which are currently eating up wall space.

[jussi]

Nice work!! Does it work as a extension table for your TS as well? Is the torsion box made of mdf (the inside part that is)? Did you use David Mark's method of leveling saw horses for the torsion box?

[drumpriest]

Jussi, yes, it's is designed to be 1/4" shorter than my table saw, so it is an outfeed table as well. I can roll it closer if need be, but most of the time I won't need to, as the gap isn't huge.

The torsion box is 3/4 mdf on top and bottom with a 1/2" mdf internal grid. I built it in the David Marks style. 2 saw horses out on a small concrete pad just outside of my shop. I topped those with jointed and ripped 2x4s, then shimmed it all level with confirmation via a 4' level. I didn't go to the bother of the winding sticks though.

[SHADOWFOX]

Nicely done, Keith! Thank you for sharing!

[John Hunter]

Looks great!