First Post! My Miter Saw Work Bench

[MegaManny009]

this is amazing you def have a set of skills

 

[vegar]

This is a great idea. I hope to copy this in the future

 

[OneSmithy]

Nice bench. Looks similar to this one:

 

[Joanders24]

Yea that video is where I got the idea of the codder-less pins to hold it in place. It was really this video and an article about a mobile miter saw station (with fold up wings) that gave me the idea to integrate both ideas into one component.

 

[aka Larry]

That is kick *** man. Nice work. I too would like to see your Google Sketchup plans if you have time to make them.

I had contemplated a jig/table to mount my chop saw on one side and my miter saw on the other, but your design using the wings make it much more functional.

Great work man and welcome to GJ!

 

[Adam McLaughlin]

Very Very Nice
Kudos to you

Adam

 

[barryrk]

What did you use to pivot the saw around? Thanks Barry

 

[jesse72]

Very cool! Great design and attention to detail

 

[sunsation288]

Wow , great idea !!

 

[AussieDan]

Very cool, welcome and thanks for sharing!

You might want to put a SS washer on the outside of the nylon pivot washers, otherwise the bolt head & nut will chew them up pretty fast.

 

[Jarhead0408]

Holy Carp man!

Awesome first post.

My first reaction was "What?"

My second was a desire to whip out my wallet to buy one.

That is an awesome table man. Very practical!

 

[CharlestonJoe]

Hey John!

Nice job on the saw table. It's been a year, how is it holding up and is there anything that you would've done different?

 

[T.LeBlanc]

Thanks everybody for the kind words. I really didn't have a set of plans to use, it was more just generic measurements that I needed to confine it to (so it will roll under my workbench). I searched and searched the internet for something like this, but was never able to find anything exactly how I wanted. I either found a "Mobile Work Station" that had folding wings, but kept a "fixed" miter saw (which wouldn't be able to roll under the workbench), or I would find a "Rotating Work Station" that had plans for the saw to rotate up, but was more "built in" to the work bench. So I just kind of combined the two ideas and came up with this design.

Originally I was going to construct it all out of wood, but the more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea of using aluminum tube. It is much stronger and it will allow me to limit the overall size to fit under the work bench. Luckily, I have access to a Mig Welder at my shop, and there is plenty of scrap aluminum lying around for me to "play" with.

I honestly wish I had created a set of plans so I could share them. Maybe soon I will take some measurements and model this in Google Sketchup. The critical part of this build was the ability of the saw to fit within every dimension. So I literally had to build this "around" the saw. Even if I did model this and share it, it would probably only work with the 10" Makita Saw (one of the reasons I chose it, it is labelled the most compact).

Anyways, if any of you are interested in building this or something like it, just shoot any questions my way, hopefully I will have some answers or at least be able to tell you the mistakes I made along the way.

John

Great design. I would be happy to pay for the Sketchup plans so that I could "adapt" your design to my larger Dewalt DWS780 12" saw, unless you are planning to customize the plans to support different saws, which would be even better. Nicely done.

--Terry