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I finally got a chance to get some pics of a new stand I built for a Christmas present--a 10" Craftsman bandsaw. It's also my first adventure in building "nicer" shop cabinets with drawers.
The stand is built of 3/4" Birch plywood and features 3 drawers for storage which are two 5" drawers and one 10" drawer. The cabinet is a faceframe cabinet (built from Tom Clark's Practical Shop Cabinets method). The drawers are made of 1/2 ply with 1/2" false fronts that overlap on 18" self closing slides. I routed the edges of the top and fronts with a 1/4" roundover bit, which came out ok--I really just wanted to eliminate the sharp edges. The project is finished with 6 coats of Minwax Wipe-on Poly sanded with 220 between the coats and 0000 steel wool as the final sanding. The 2" casters allow it to roll smoothly where I need it. With the cabinet loaded, there are no issues with tipping that I have experienced. Rather than using locking casters, I chose a method for locking the wheels that I am beginning to find more user freindly--I simply cut some 2x4 wedges and attached rubber shelf liner to 2 sides. A simple "kick" of the wedges on two sides stops the movement of the tool and I don't have to bend over to unlock them. It probably wouldn't work for a heavy bench, but for something like this, it works well. All in all, not a masterpiece and certainly not fine joinery, but for me a good learning experience. Hopefully the next one will be better
The stand is built of 3/4" Birch plywood and features 3 drawers for storage which are two 5" drawers and one 10" drawer. The cabinet is a faceframe cabinet (built from Tom Clark's Practical Shop Cabinets method). The drawers are made of 1/2 ply with 1/2" false fronts that overlap on 18" self closing slides. I routed the edges of the top and fronts with a 1/4" roundover bit, which came out ok--I really just wanted to eliminate the sharp edges. The project is finished with 6 coats of Minwax Wipe-on Poly sanded with 220 between the coats and 0000 steel wool as the final sanding. The 2" casters allow it to roll smoothly where I need it. With the cabinet loaded, there are no issues with tipping that I have experienced. Rather than using locking casters, I chose a method for locking the wheels that I am beginning to find more user freindly--I simply cut some 2x4 wedges and attached rubber shelf liner to 2 sides. A simple "kick" of the wedges on two sides stops the movement of the tool and I don't have to bend over to unlock them. It probably wouldn't work for a heavy bench, but for something like this, it works well. All in all, not a masterpiece and certainly not fine joinery, but for me a good learning experience. Hopefully the next one will be better
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nice job
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