Table Saw Cabinets/Outfeed/Router

[eriksalo]

Hi All;

I just finished building a cabinet for my Delta Unisaw. The cabinet has eight drawers, a collapsible outfeed table, a router table and power for everything including the Router and three phase power converter for the table saw motor.

I had great input from this forum when I was working on the design and wanted to post the results. Here are a few pictures. I also have a sketchup model of the design if anyone's interested.

Erik

 

[Brad54]

OUTSTANDING!
I aspire to have a table saw... not having it has been a real handicap over the years. But I don't have a good spot for it--every time I open up a space, I fill it with car parts or metal working shop equipment.

Beautiful piece you built there.
-Brad

 

[eriksalo]

Thanks for the note.

For a long time I had to share a garage with my wife's car. I bought a Craftsman pro tablesaw that's identical to a Ryobi BT-3000. It worked great and had both a sliding miter table and a router table. It was a lot of saw for its size. It folds up easily into a footprint that's about 1'x3'. Very manageable for a garage. In fact, I built much of the piece above with the little saw since the big one was out of commission while I was building the cabinet around it.

I have since built a big shop and lots of tools to go with it! I'm also a metal worker and have a humongous CNC mill (picture attached) that takes up about 100 square feet all by itself. Terrific for woodworking and metalworking.

Erik

 

[MadMechMaster]

I like it! Plenty of storage, and on wheels. Do the casters hold well?

Something similar is in my long range plans. But I am thinking having the TS turned 90 degrees and use the table for outfeed. My saw is a cast iron Craftsman with a built in router table so I think I will have easier access with it turned. I would like to add a miter saw on one long side and a planer on the other. Both would be on bases that I could flip over and have a flush work surface.

 

[eriksalo]

I thought about turning the saw the other way but went with this configuration so I could both have the router on an end and use my Biesemeyer fence for both the router and saw. Works great in practice.

The assembly is supported by six casters, all of them full swivel. Four are under the saw itself (roughly one on each corner of the steel saw cabinet) and the other two are at the far end near the router.

I took care to use locking casters for all six so the thing wouldn't move around. In practice, I've found it so heavy that unintended movement is no problem at all. I've never bothered to lock any of the casters and it's rock solid. A little hard to push around even....

There are almost six full sheets of 3/4" plywood in the project. One full sheet for the bottom (it's double thickness for strength, probably overkill). Two sheets of oak ply for the body and drawer faces. Almost two sheets for the drawer body's and another sheet of MDF for the top table and outfeed table. The saw is also pretty heavy.

 

[Brad54]

I thought about turning the saw the other way but went with this configuration so I could both have the router on an end and use my Biesemeyer fence for both the router and saw. Works great in practice.

The assembly is supported by six casters, all of them full swivel. Four are under the saw itself (roughly one on each corner of the steel saw cabinet) and the other two are at the far end near the router.

I took care to use locking casters for all six so the thing wouldn't move around. In practice, I've found it so heavy that unintended movement is no problem at all. I've never bothered to lock any of the casters and it's rock solid. A little hard to push around even....

There are almost six full sheets of 3/4" plywood in the project. One full sheet for the bottom (it's double thickness for strength, probably overkill). Two sheets of oak ply for the body and drawer faces. Almost two sheets for the drawer body's and another sheet of MDF for the top table and outfeed table. The saw is also pretty heavy.

Damn, you will never get that into the back of a truck!

Again, well done.

-Brad

 

[Abbott]

That looks real good Erik!

 

[A_Pmech]

That's a great way to build a saw table, Erik! I like the design and the execution looks very good too.

Welcome to the board!

 

[dtj5]

Erik,

Great looking cabinet, and I also think this is the greatest site for discovering new and better ways to do all kinds of building, and erecting things. I would be very interested in a sketch-up model of the design.

 

[ghnl]

Looks great!

I also have a sketchup model of the design if anyone's interested.

I am. I mounted my 12" Powermatic on a mobile base and built a storage unit under the side table - 4 small drawers (2 on each side) and open shelves underneath. I also put a router into the side table.

 

[pacmktg]

As a woodworker myself, you did a fantastic job. Wish I had room for such a large cabinet saw and extension table. I have a Jet 10" cabinet saw with 30" rails and a bench dog cast iron router table replacing one of the saw's wings.

 

[PassnThru]

Wow. That looks good enough for my living room
I have the DeWalt jobsite table saw. I've been considering something along these lines to increase the functionality since it is pretty short on feed space.
Thanks for posting.

 

[MadMechMaster]

I was thinking of 4 larger ones, but I can see an advantage to using 6 to support the weight of the saw more evenly.

I only do woodworking as needed, it's not my main hobby. I'll probably never have a fence that nice, and need to tuck it into the corner for storage.

 

[rsanter]

thanks for doing the prototyping for me
that is almost exactly what I have been thinking about building

the other thought I had was to have a seperate cabinet that was the same height that would roll over and get latched to the back of the tablesaw as an outfeed table. the rest of the time it can be a general woodworking/glueup bench

bob

 

[metal1313]

ive been planning on the same thing. but for a cheap saw, my router, and a place for my miter saw. im planning on using larger pneumatic tires, seeing as this will be loaded in and out of my trailer at job sites building decks and doing small finishing work. these work stations just seem to be a great idea, and allow you to roll your tools around and outside to work in the warm spring sun

 

[eriksalo]

Hi; I couldn't get the sketchup file to upload to this forum so I added it to Google's 3D warehouse. Here's a link:

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=2cae8ad22a377d5333ad613c6f6d8cc4&prevstart=0

If that doesn't work, just go to the 3d warehouse and search for, "Table Saw Router" and it should be there. If you can't find it, let me know and I'll mail the file.

It's a first for me in that I totally relied on sketchup to make this piece. I designed the piece in sketchup. I found the models of the Rockwell Router and Delta Unisaw in the 3d warehouse and then designed the cabinet around them. I then used a plugin called, "cutlist" to automatically lay out the panels for a 4x8 sheet and show me the most efficient way to cut the pieces. I just printed the graphical cutlist and made the pieces all in one shot. Everything fit perfectly.

I spend just as much of my spare time with metalworking and sports cars so I wanted the whole system to be one piece. When I'm not woodworking, I just roll it into a corner.

I thought about using a separate table as an outfeed. The reason I went this way is the fit is perfect since it's attached, it can fold down to basically zero size and I wanted to keep the dust port at the back of the saw.

Erik

 

[woody 73]

Very nice job! I like the router table wish my saw had one! Those Delta Unisaw's are very nice in fact they are so nice the chinese went after them in a big way; they must have copied every detail down to the last screw...

 

[eriksalo]

I've been very happy with the Unisaw. Some people say the Powermatics are better. It might be true but the Delta has more than enough power and is solid as a rock.

When I bought it last year (it's a 1970's model that was used in a High School Woodshop) I took the whole thing apart and cleaned and painted every piece. I also replaced the bearings and ground the arbor to less than 0.001" runout. I can put a dime on end on the steel table and it won't fall over when the motor starts. The three phase generator helps since it has a soft start and a fast stop.

The biggest value to the saw is the fence. I set it up with a caliper and dial guage. When I make a cut on the fence, it measures to within less than 0.005" of the desired dimension and is extremely repeatable.

 

[senlow]

That's a well designed and well executed table saw system. I've thought about doing something similar for my contractors saw. I much prefer to work with metal, so it's kinda low on my list of priorities.

 

[Flathead Youngin']

man, that looks great....thanks for sharing...i love the sketchup file......

hey, there's no sawdust on it................................yet!

 

[senlow]

When I bought it last year (it's a 1970's model that was used in a High School Woodshop) I took the whole thing apart and cleaned and painted every piece. I also replaced the bearings and ground the arbor to less than 0.001" runout. I can put a dime on end on the steel table and it won't fall over when the motor starts. The three phase generator helps since it has a soft start and a fast stop.

The biggest value to the saw is the fence. I set it up with a caliper and dial guage. When I make a cut on the fence, it measures to within less than 0.005" of the desired dimension and is extremely repeatable.

Those details are key to making a table saw perform.

 

[eriksalo]

Hi All;

Here are some better pictures per the request of those of you who emailed me.

Erik

 

[DaleJR88Fan]

That is awsome. I have drawn up plans to do the same to my table saw and might use some parts of your design for mine. I have the new fence (http://www.toolcrib.com/detail/9157/Delta-Biesemeyer-174-Commercial-Fence-System-for-50-R-12-L.html) and Incra router system (http://www.incra.com/product_rtf_lspsuper.htm) to add to my design (I have had them for 4+ years). I just wish I could get the time to build it.

 

[Yojinbo]

This is delightful. I have been scheming a router outfeed table project in my little notebook - but you have taken it to higher level. Thanks for sharing the pics!