As you know I am working on optimizing my workshop, while minimizing the need for lifting and twisting as my back is aging badly and I want to keep going witht he craft for decades to come God willing.
So to keep my benchtop tools effectively on their benches, and maximize my floor space efficiency, I am moving off of the tool stacker and onto flip top tool stands. I took the needed measurements, double checked, and whipped up a quick design in Sketchup.
Now mind you I moitted something imortant here, and that is the blocks for the casters. I want to reinforce the mount points for them. Just small cutoffs of plywood is all...
Well I got started on the project today.
I cut the 2x4 pieces to length and the 2x6 corner braces as well. Just basic triangles...
I played with the idea of setting up the table saw to make the cuts for the half laps, and even considered hand cutting them, but in a fit of either stupidity or inspiration I went with the bandsaw. I need to follow up with a sharp chisel and a sander to get the glue line as best I can get it, and I WILL be trusting screws here...
I've got a lot more work to do, but I imagine I will have these side panel frames screwed and glued up tonight, and by tomorrow I should be moving forward with the rabbeting of the inside edges and squaring the rabbets up...
More to come, but if you recall my sharpening station / grinder stand, I will when it is all said and done, be finishing this in Rustoleum Hunter Green, mostly because I like the color...
So to keep my benchtop tools effectively on their benches, and maximize my floor space efficiency, I am moving off of the tool stacker and onto flip top tool stands. I took the needed measurements, double checked, and whipped up a quick design in Sketchup.
Now mind you I moitted something imortant here, and that is the blocks for the casters. I want to reinforce the mount points for them. Just small cutoffs of plywood is all...
Well I got started on the project today.
I cut the 2x4 pieces to length and the 2x6 corner braces as well. Just basic triangles...
I played with the idea of setting up the table saw to make the cuts for the half laps, and even considered hand cutting them, but in a fit of either stupidity or inspiration I went with the bandsaw. I need to follow up with a sharp chisel and a sander to get the glue line as best I can get it, and I WILL be trusting screws here...
I've got a lot more work to do, but I imagine I will have these side panel frames screwed and glued up tonight, and by tomorrow I should be moving forward with the rabbeting of the inside edges and squaring the rabbets up...
More to come, but if you recall my sharpening station / grinder stand, I will when it is all said and done, be finishing this in Rustoleum Hunter Green, mostly because I like the color...
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