I've got a couple needs in the shop. One is a mobile stand for that miter saw over there.
Another is a little bit better dust collection and a third I want to accomplish with this project
is blade storage. I've got some blades right there. Oh, there's another one on the floor
right there. What do you know? I've got a blade sitting right here. It's been there a while.
That one's been sitting there a while. I can't remember the last time I moved that one.
I've got a couple more scattered around here. So blade storage is one thing I'm going to
accomplish with this as well. This is the plans for the sketchup diagram from
iBuildit.ca. John has built a mobile miter saw station that accomplishes all my goals here.
So I'm going to start with this. I'm going to modify a little bit for my shop. His overall
depth is 27 inches front to back plus some front edge trimming. My panels for sides are going to
have a depth of about 24 inches, maybe just a tad less. That's going to allow me to use
one sheet to get two panels out of from my left and right hand side. I've got a lot of quarter
inch plywood scraps and that's what we're using here is quarter inch ply plus some
dimensional pine to give it some strength. But this is going to be more than enough
strength for what I'm going to be using it as. It's going to be light for something else I want.
I don't know if my decrease in width is going to cut down on dust collection. I know a bigger
space back here for the dust to fall into is going to be better, but this is just something I need to
do for my shop. I'm using a small miter saw so this is just wasted space. Down on the bottom we
have these two doors that fold out and have some blade storage. Real handy little design he put
into this and right here is a drawer that sits below the saw itself so any dust that falls back
into the hood he's got a ramp back here that will fall into this bucket. He says the dust
collection works really good. Hopefully it works for me. I'm changing it up just a tad but hopefully
it still works for me. I've got another little view of his project that I've just dimensioned
out some rough measurements for. Like I said this is a very good design that John did and I'm going
to not necessarily improve upon it but change it to tailor to my needs a little bit more.
So this is going to solve most of my problems. One design. Really good job designing it so
kudos to him on that and we'll see how it goes for my shop. Oh by the way I've got the first
panel set up here. Just a scrap piece of quarter inch ply. I'm going to rip it down the middle
after I cut it to 60 inches in length. That's going to be my overall height. I've got my little circular
saw guide here. I'm going to cut it at 60 inches then use a table saw to rip it in half but that's
going to be my two sides and then I'll cut out my little L shape for my saw area. But anyway that's
my start that I've got on this and we'll see where it goes. So I've got both sides, the back cut out,
and then the blank for the top. I've clamped both sides together. A good side out, a good side out
on the bottom as well. That way this is going to be my right panel. Bottom side is going to be my
left panel. This is going to be the L shape cut out for where the saw sits. Ground is going to be
that way. I'm going to use my circular saw to sneak up to this corner and then come in and sneak up to
this corner and then I'm going to use a jigsaw just to finalize the cut. But both side pieces
have the same dimension as far as this cut out so clamp them together, cut them both at the same time
and we'll see what's next. The bottom section on my L, let's not overcomplicate things here. I've
got an eight foot guide rail for my circular saw. I'm not going to use it to make this little cut.
Let's just use a regular old square, speed square, and use it as a straight edge to make the cut.
We've got right to the corner on both sheets. I will use my jigsaw to clean that up real quick.
But use a speed square. All right so the base of this thing is essentially just a box frame.
Just some scrap one by material I had. My height is determined by the scraps that I have on hand
and I used the widest emission I could to label this or to cut this out with the scraps.
I think it calls for three or three and a half inch right here but I'm using what I had.
These knots, I'm using some crappy wood here, these knots are going to be covered up by the
back panel. You'll never see them. So I'm just going to set this in place and pack it down with
some brass. I've got the back panel laid out across my saw horses and this is the base.
This is the base we just built and what I'm going to do is set this in here like so.
I've got glue spread across the bottom and I'm going to clamp it in place
and brad nail it from the bottom side.
Always be sure to wear your safety glasses here. I'm going to switch over to some five
eighths inch brads to get this center section. I'm shooting one and a quarter right now.
