New project.

I’ve been wanting to build a new workbench with table saw, miter saw, planer, jointer, router, and dust collection all built in. My “job site” ryobi wasn’t gonna cut it and wanted a new heavy duty cast iron American made saw. Of course I don’t have thousands to spend so I’ve been trolling online trying to find one used. From everything I’ve been reading most of the wood working forums recommended an old Craftsman 113.xxxx for a good table saw that will last a life time and with a few mods will run with the big boys. I don’t have FB so I asked my wife to look on market place for me. She just took screenshots of all of the saws and boom an old Craftsman 113 15 minutes west of me. Has a custom built fence the owner had put on it, he was an engineer, has a cross cut sled already built. Really only thing I’ll want to do is replace the pulleys with machined steel from the cast pulleys and change the rubber belt to a link belt.

Dated the serial and it’s built in 1996 in USA. Yea it needs a little cleaning up on the cast iron, but overall in really good shape for being almost 30 years old.

Wanting to build something similar to this but probably wider so the table saw and miter say don’t interfere with each other.

The way you keep them from interfering is have the kit on a revolving shelf. When not in use it swings down under the table for storage.

Yea I’ve seen a couple of those and really like the design so when not in use have the entire work bench table top. Just don’t know if all the cutouts will interfere with the t tracks I plan on having on the work bench top.

I helped design and build one with a friend a few years ago, he had all Jet brand tool and need a single work station like what you have pictured. It wasn’t an easy build. We used a lot of steel in the build along with wood. He has storage for parts and small tools on one side, all power tools on the other. It can be completely flat or he can have all tools raised at the same time. The only thing not mounted on it was the Jet dust collection. The air compressor was mounted in the middle and never seen and barely heard. He probably had $50,000 worth of tools in it. He mounted a winch to his shop floor to pull it back in. His was 8x20 I believe

On the cast iron.

Knotted cup brush on a 4 1/2" angle grinder. It will look brand new.

I have tried several types of oil to keep it from rusting again. The last thing I did has worked the longest. Past car wax, apply, dry, buff just like you would car paint.

I would skip integrating the table saw into any other table. It needs to stand alone as it's own thing. Build or buy a mobile base for the saw, with locking casters. Build an outfeed table that will connect to the saw, with a melamine top. Melamine is slick, especially with saw dust on it. And it takes years to wear it out. You may never replace it. Or find some old conveyer rollers. I have conveyer rollers.

Keep it mobile, keep it modular. I didn't always have a shop as big as the one I have now.

Thanks I’ll get on it with my grinder with a brush and see what it looks like. I was reading today about the wax stuff and it seems to work pretty good. Really wanted the table saw entergrated into the setup for the table to act as an out feed for the saw. The saw actually came with a wood base with locking casters so I can move it around pretty easy at the moment.
Haha yea that’s way more than I’m wanting, needing, or could afford haha. Bet it’s bad [censored] though.

If you integrate it into that assembly table, then what do you do to the things on the assembly table when you are running an 8' long sheet down the table saw? You move all that stuff. Now you have an outfeed table.

What happens when you need to assemble some things? You move what parts you have back onto the table and build.

Then what happens when you need an outfeed table again? You move everything off the assembly table. What about needing to rip a 16' long board? Still got enough outfeed for that?

You have a table saw capable of big things and you are about to set it up with limitations.

Cool project , looking forward to following it

Well finally got a little time to work on my bench. Sketched it up in a CAD program. Got all the dust collection pipes and electricity ran to all sides of the vents with dust gates. Router table integrated into the end of the bench. Plan on doing drawers, cabinets, and shelves for storing small things and the bench top jointer and planer.

Will be building out of 2x4's and white Melamine. Will be painting the 2x4's black. I bought 480 inches of black T Track, so figured I'd stick with the theme. Still have a few measurements to workout, but I'm pretty close. Table saw will mate up to the end with the recessed base to be used as an outfeed table, but still able to move independently from one another.

Plenty of videos on YouTube for these kind of tables. They look cool and see very functional.

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Looking a lot better than it did when I got it. Got the top all cleaned up, the stainless pulleys installed, and the new link belt on. Thing is WAY more quiet than my “job site” table saw.

Coming together finally. Still got a lot of finishing to do. Lots of sanding, building the doors for the cabinets, all the drawers, routing in the t track and routing table, running all the electrical and dust collection hoses, routing the bench top edges, then all the white trim for the MDF ends.

Changed a bit from the CAD drawings I did but still pretty close.

Right on

Thanks, I got a lot done yesterday. All electrical ran and the dust collection, missing a few pieces of 4” fittings so waiting on those, got the top mounted and all the trim installed. Burnt the hell out of my self multiple times with the iron

Still need to square up the door openings and get the doors and dreamers made, then all the t tracks and router table installed.

But it’s nice I can actually use it with my phone able saw for out feed now.

Dammit I need a bitter shop than my garage.

Looks great Kyle

Sweat!


Time to start planning for the shop\man cave.

Thank you sir! Can’t wait to start actually building [censored] lol.


Yea, now I just need to get out of this sub division and get that pesky land.

Wish I needed something I'd put you to work.

Wow, that looks impressive, Kyle.

Looks great, but please trim out those holes or add cabinet doors. Makes me anxious

Lol I’m getting to it man!! Have limited time and now on vacation in Branson. Maybe I’ll have a little time over Christmas to finish it out.

Sweet setup!

Very nice stup, you did real nice job

Much appreciated fellas. Gotta finish this off, build a new fence for the table saw, and get my laser table up and going and I’ll be ready to finally start doing some projects.

been a few weeks, did you already squirrel and start working on something else

Lol no been on vacation then Christmas haven’t had a lot of time.

I’ll be getting back to it soon. I did finally find a bandsaw and it came with a better table saw than mine just waiting on a Delta T3 fence to come in.

Looks like a great setup. My shop is 20 by 20. It looked pretty big till I filled it with equipment. Finally I put wheels on everything but the jointer, so I can rearrange as required. The enclosed shop is half of the barn, and I can roll other equipment (planer and other) in or out of the shop as needed. I wish it was 30 by 30.

That work table of yours looks too pretty to dirty up.

I just use Johnson’s wax on bare metal surfaces. Works great, but don’t sit sweating beer cans on the metal.

My multipurpose shop is a reloading shop for the next week.

Looks good Kyle!

Thanks bud, still got lots to do. Been down the last couple of days sick. I went to work today and they promptly sent me home when I said I hadn’t been tested. Went and got tested and PCR was negative but lab won’t come back for 72 hours. Think it’s just a cold and allergies mixed.


Yea I’m in my 20x20 garage and already have my reloading setup with a bunch of gun storage on one size then on the other is my work bench tool box and a wall of ryobi tools and storage under it. So I really have about 20x12 for my wood working. I’m running out of space quick.

Got some more work done on the “shop” today. Swapped my reloading stuff over to my small gun bench. Reinstalled my miter saw and fixed my miter station flaws I had before. Stacked my shelving vertical so I had a place for my band saw and drill press. Which also gave me some storage for the tools I had inside my bench and some slabs on top. Got my isolating belt/spindle sander all setup. Tore out all the guts of my bench so I could use the long bottom of the bench for longer stock storage. Still have more to do seems like it’s never ending. Want to get my laser box finished but my first piece of plexiglass bending didn’t go to well lol.

Hey I recognize most of that stack of wood enjoy!

Yep very gratuitous of you sir. Truly awesome of you and much appreciated you gave me all that. I’ll definitely be putting it to good use sir.

Looking good What will be your first project ?

Thanks stub. First project will be a cutting board for my father in laws new BBQ business. Laser engraved with their logo.

Or I might do my Thor hammer weighted mallet don’t know yet.

New Laguna F1 finally came in. Got it all put together and built a router wing onto it. Wow the dust collection is so awesome compared to the older saws. Almost zero dust cutting the MDF router wing. Once I get a better dust collection system it’ll be even better. Once I attached the router, the router wing is sagging just a bit so will need to make some legs for it, but overall very happy with how it turned out.

Very nice! Shop porn!

Really nice

Man, that's the way to do it...and you can turn the table saw on end of table and make long or wide cuts by yourself.
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Very nice! I like that saw!

Thanks fellas been busy as hell and haven’t had a ton of time to do much wood working laser engraver and 3D printer has been running almost constantly. But found a little time to make my first cutting board. Made it for my boss that just turned 70.

Beautiful

That's very nice, always been jealous of guys that know how to work wood, I have no skills for it.

Charlie

Looks good but your spacing on your engraving really jacks with my OCD, not kidding.

Ummmm look at his tools hanging up.... If you are more OCD then that seek help. His shop is cleaner than my truck

Thanks everyone appreciate it.


Haha, yea it messed with my OCD too, but there really wasn't a good way to do it with the alternating wood colors. Then I got it completely off center on the Paduak strip LOL. She still loved it so I didn't say anything, but yea I noticed it.


It does need a little cleaning got some saw dust on the floor, need a better dust collector with more power.

I have another one in the making now. It is massive 25”x19” for my father in laws new BBQ business. Here it is compared to the one above.