Cutting Plywood Made EASY with DIY Folding Workbench

[Music] hey guys come in the shop real quick maggie and i are building a really cool project and you're not going to want to miss this also um if you're ever visiting maker's playground don't stand behind the doors i'm sure you don't cast at all on with it so if you follow us on our other social media channels you know that things have been changing around here one of those changes is we're bringing in some other equipment for instance like the onefinity sitting behind us a big thank you to infinity for working with us on that and we're bringing in some lasers and some other things the the point is we're building a school to help folks learn how to start businesses create businesses all based around this type of technology now with the smaller form cnc's and lasers we're going to need to be able to break sheet goods down pretty often and we want to make that convenient we've just used sawhorses in the past and half the time the sawhorses are being used for something else so what i've done is designed a bench that folds up into this little you know compact package unfolds really quickly handy to use because if it's not handy to use we're not going to use it what's really cool about this bench though is it has a lifting um assist we'll call it that the task of breaking down sheet goods is falling more and more on maggie's shoulder since i'm spending more and more time in the chair the other really cool thing about this project is you can build the whole thing out of one 4x8 sheet of plywood right right funny thing is i don't actually have a full sheet of plywood but we do have some big scrap pieces like this laying around i'm going to cut all the parts i need from the scrap plywood that i've got we'll do a little routering and then we can do some assembly [Music] [Applause] i need to cut a channel in each one of these like this and to do that i just made this really simple router jig now i didn't spend a lot of time making this i just glued a three-quarter inch piece of material to some half-inch material i laid it out and then took it over to the bandsaw and carefully cut it out you want to spend a little time on this because you want to have a nice fit on your on your channels i just want to line up with my marks and then go ahead and pencil out a line so i can rough some of that material out of there and i'm just going to do that with my jigsaw [Applause] [Music] i'm going to line it back up i'm going to go ahead and clamp that in place i want to make sure i leave my make my jig big enough that i can clamp it far enough back that the base of my router won't interfere with the clamping scenario [Applause] [Music] and just like that by using the flush trim bit we've got a really nice finish these are the legs and just like before you cut them out on the table saw and then did this little l glue up something we did that's interesting is i cut a small little rebate in the end of this that helps me position this we'll show you that here in a second but because i'm going to be running saw blades over the top of this i don't want any metal up top so i use a nail gun that shoots composite nails at the top and then i use a regular nail gun to finish off fastening i'm not actually going to screw this together the glue and the nails are plenty good to hold this together and because it's something i want to make a few of as they get beat up i'm just going to do it as fast as we can so just like we cut the other cross members these are the pieces that are going to like make this whole thing fold up we need to use some hinges these are some solid heavy duty door hinges or three and a half inches tall and we picked ones that just don't have a lot of play when they're open this section here is about seven inches tall so if i install those on the bottom even when i'm using a big saw there's no chance that the saw blade would cut through and hit the hinge so i'm gonna lay that out here center mass and then i'm going to go ahead and chisel that out [Music] that's her first one ever she did awesome [Music] now you'll notice i have these lifted off the work surface a little bit that's because these screws are too long and they're going to go all the way through the work piece and i don't want them in my workbench now this is just again a rough and tumble bench we're building so i'll just flip it over and grind those down when we're done putting it together so when i put these screws in i'm going to push them that way a little bit of center so when i tighten this down it's going to pull everything together [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we've got the table laid out in the stretcher pieces in now the next thing we need to do is add some little blocks right here on the side and that's going to keep it from wanting to swing too far and when these are pushing out that'll keep the leg kind of open throughout the process now once we have those on we'll put the back sides on and then we'll be able to see if this thing's actually going to fold up [Music] [Music] you did do it right that's perfect so we turned it right side up and this is actually a lot sturdier than i expected it be with just these hinge points but i want to add a little extra security here so we're going to put a block in here screw it to one side and then we'll use a knob on the other side to tighten it down when it's in this position forgot what i was gonna say let's just do it [Music] to make the knob positions i'm going to drill first through both pieces with a 3 16 drill bit i'm going to do the same thing on the other side then i'm going to close the whole thing drill through with a quarter inch on this side and then put some threads in here some quarter twenty threads so i can just take a knob tighten it down on here and that'll lock this in the open position all right i'm doing the same thing here so now it's in its closed position and i wanna be able to lock it in its closed position so again i'm just going to go center mass i'm going to drill a 3 16 hole through and then we'll tap everything out and drill a quarter inch hole so the knobs will fit in here much better all right so these are loading arms and they're going to attach right here we can put a piece of material on it and then lean it up onto the table so peggy doesn't have to lift it up on the table or neither do i because these are going to get a lot of use i'm not just going to do what threads in the wood and actually put some inserts in on these so we've got it all put together a couple things we did off camera is on the bottom you'll see that we put some pieces of plywood and that's really just so these don't fall out and for the spanners we created this little l piece of plywood here that captures them so everything is held in this one little 40 inch by you know i guess 13 inch package [Music] [Music] uh [Music] she's my lover [Music] [Music] so what do you think i like it i think it's going to make it a little easier for you i got something else that's going to make it easier for you too what oh thank you so that's going to replace the track saw no more clamps are going to be needed that will vacuum down to the material and you can just cut stuff okay so you just measure out your take your measurement you put it up against this thing right here right along this edge on both sides turn on the gravel and then flip that up and it's designed to work with this black saw just put that right up against that edge and cut hey everybody thank you so much for watching we are going to get a ton of use out of this we even put a little place where we can mount the track saw guide on this unit so we have everything all in one place that's going to come in handy with a lot of materials that we have to break down a couple points that we need to probably touch on there will be plans available for this they're not quite done yet as soon as they are i'll put them in the description box below and you can always find them on my website izzyswan.com the other thing some of you may have noticed the knobs that we were using in here were epoxy knobs we actually make and sell forms so you can make your own knobs which is really handy because then you can use any type of fastener size fastener that you want to use you don't have to hunt down something and then wait for days to get it in the mail or you know chance finding it at a hardware store so these are really handy if you want to check those out again link is down in the description box below megan i hope that you found this build entertaining and interesting and maybe give you some ideas for your own projects also don't forget if you enjoyed this video hit that subscribe button and don't forget to hit the bell notification next to it so you get notified when we post new videos and i guess that about does it we'll see you in the next video

Channel: izzy swan

Views: 126,173

Keywords: How to, diy, tablesaw, table saw, tools, projects, woodworking, shop projects, jigs, band saw, Izzy swan, folding, workbench, foldingtable, folding workbench, plywwood, cutting, cutting plywood, build a workbench

Id: miu4gVSyzZc

Length: 11min 13sec (673 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 14 2022