ibuildit.ca Miter Saw Station Video 3 - 018

Alright, I'm starting to cover up all these plywood edges. For this vertical piece right here where the table meets, I've already done this side and I've just got a piece of pine with a rabbit cut on this side and the rabbit stops right there. I cut my rabbit a little bit wrong so I've got some tear out right here where the blade went too far but I'm going to put one on this horizontal surface to cover that up. So, what I have here is the other side. Like I said, you've got a rabbit cut right here. The rabbit goes down and stops where the table is supposed to meet. And it fits in like so. Slides into place. That will cover up that entire edge grain of the plywood. Anyway, let me get it glued together and stapled in, or brad nailed in. I've got a little bit more of the framing in and banding, edge banding, whatever you want to call it. I'm trying to speed through this. I've got some other stuff I need to get done and I just want this to work so I'm not looking for perfection here. Some of my joints are a little bit loose but they're all glued together and nailed in so they should work just fine. I'm not going for aesthetics here. I'm going for function. And this is going to be a very welcomed addition to my shop. I added a thicker board to the bottom of it to dress up that edge as well as give it a little bit more meat right there because I use this floor a lot in my shop and I'm going to be throwing stuff around. I stack my lumber on the floor as you can see. I don't want something to come flying into that and destroy it. That's what that's there for. A little bit different than what he had designed. His design, my dimensions. I'll say that. I'm going to start building this framed platform for the saw to sit on and then it's just a matter of building these fold-out saw holders. There's not much left to this. It's a very basic design. A very functional design. Lightweight. This thing is... Man, I put some casters on the bottom and this thing is going to roll around just fine. I'm very pleased with it so far. He did a good job designing this. I'm going to finish building it. Let me explain what I've got going on here. I'm at the point where I need to mount the saw or at least get the frame set up for the saw mount. What I used for that is just some scrap 2x4s. I've got basically an H style system here. I've got this front beam, the back beam, and two supports going front to back on either side. That's where the saw is going to mount. My distance from the base to where my sides are, I determined that by using a combination square on my saw as it is already set up. I then ripped a piece of 2x4 scrap down to about about a sixteenth of an inch less than that. The reason being I don't want to... when I'm sliding wood across here I'd rather be just a smidge low than high. Obviously, that way it will slide across. But anyway, I ripped the two 2x4s right here, pieces of scrap, as my spacer. I set them up next to the saw just to verify that that was the height I want. Then I clamped a straight edge to that, to the whole assembly, and set it in place. That sets the level where it should be across that plane. However, the entire assembly may or may not be twisted front to back like this. I didn't know. So what I did is I ripped a couple more pieces of scrap, set them on the front, and clamped the bottom of this to the top right here. I just put the paw of the clamp right there on both faces to level it all up. I did that on both sides. My panel overnight, I wasn't able to finish yesterday, but overnight has developed a little bit of a twist outward. So I used this long 48 inch clamp to clamp it all together. Basically, it's sitting in place right now. I've just got to secure it somehow. When I built this little platform frame area for the saw to sit on, I just screwed three inch decking screws into the end grain. I'm not a big fan of screwing into the end grain, obviously, because it's not that strong. But I'm doing it on front and back. Really, that's just to support this piece from falling down. There's going to be no play from this board wanting to pull away from here. It's a stationary piece, so it's not going to matter. I think I might just screw through the side here into the end grain. I don't know. I am just hitting quarter inch plies, so maybe I might put a plate here, some type of wood spacer, and then screw through that and the ply. I don't know, I may be thinking overkill here. But that's how I'm going to mount it. I haven't looked at the plans in a little while. I just printed off a couple diagrams, and I don't have the SketchUp model in front of me on the computer that I can view around in to see what exactly he did. But it's theoretically the same setup as his. Once that's in place, I can space down for a drawer. I'll put the mount all the way around the support for the drawer. Once the drawer is in place, I can put the ramps all the way around to guide the dust into the drawer, and then work on the saw blade holders, which shouldn't take long, and then this bad boy is ready for use. I'm getting excited to put the saw in here and test it out, and also getting excited to clear up all that junk space over there. See you in the finish line here soon. I've got the saw in place. I've got it mounted. My particular saw only mounts from these two front screw hole locations. And then there's a support in the back that it just rests on. For me, this is working out great. I started in on the dust collection drawer, and I believe John used half-inch on all his drawer pieces. I have this piece of three-quarter inch scrap that I literally just had to chew off a half-inch, and it was perfect. I'm going to use this as the base. Probably going to use three-quarter inch plywood as the side so I can use up some scrap. That is all supported by some inch-and-a-half by inch-and-a-half pine that I first put these side pieces in. They fit inside this front piece, inside the back piece, and then there's a notch out for this center support. I did that on both sides, glued and screwed in from the other side. I added a support in the back for the back of the drawer, and then in the front, I added a piece of two-by-four ripped on the table saw so I got a nice corner right here, and I cut, let me see this other side, I cut a large rabbet in each side of this two-by-four to fit snug up against this and cover the end grain. Screwed and glued this into place, and that gives me a support for my drawer. I'm not going to put anything in the middle because that's just added weight. This is just going to support sawdust, and it gives me a surface for these fold-out doors that I'm going to build to set up against. I've got the base cut, now I just need to finish out putting the drawer in here, and then I'm going to work on building the ramps to go all the way around the drawer to allow the sawdust to hit the side of the panel, hit the ramp, and then fall into the drawer.