DIY Mobile Workbench & Compact Woodworking Station | Miter Saw, Table Saw, & Planer | Small Garage

all right today what we're starting is what i'm calling my ultimate all-in-one mobile woodworking station workbench for a small garage and i think it's going to solve a lot of my problems all right so the problem that i have is i've started investing in some nicer tools i just don't have a place to put them i'm working in a smaller two-car garage in this back corner of the garage is the only place that i have to store stuff so stuff's piled on top of each other and it's hard to get to it's hard to maintain and then it's no you know it's harder to get motivated to do projects so i think i've come up with an idea a way that i can make a smaller workbench that would fit in probably a lot of people's garages that not only holds and stores all the tools but it's a one-stop shop mobile woodworking station where everything's self-contained and you use them right in the workbench so i gotta get this stuff out of here and then i'm gonna start building all right so the design i came up with is roughly 32 inches wide by about eight feet long and it has three built-in locations for the miter saw table saw and planer this workbench is mainly going to be built out of two by fours and when i'm building a project like this where you're actually going to see the wood i like to invest in a little bit higher quality wood so these are the douglas fir two by fours and they cost a little bit more but i think it's worth it the grain pattern is a whole lot straighter and they look a whole lot nicer and they don't have as many knots one thing that i like to do that you don't necessarily have to do is i run them through the planer i run them through each direction and remove about a sixteenth of an inch off each side and the really the main reason i do this is just so i have a nice clean work surface on each side and i square them up technically if i had a jointer it would help me do this a little bit more precise but the planer does a great job then once everything's milled to size using my cut list i measure out and cut the pieces for the frame i try to cut as many of these at the same time as i can to be as efficient as possible then i always like to lay things out just to make sure everything looks correct then before i start assembly i have to make a modification to the top rail of the front of the frame i need to actually cut like a little ledge out of it so that the table saw can sit down into the frame to cut the straight part of it i use the track saw and then to finish it off i use the jigsaw [Applause] then to attach all the pieces of the frame together i use a square to help me hold the boards in place then i pre-drill the holes to keep them from splitting and i also found out that it helps when you're screwing the two boards together it keeps the boards from moving around so much and i repeated that process for both sides of the frame [Music] [Music] once i was done with both sides of the frame i stood them up next to each other just to make sure everything lined up like they should [Music] after making a few more cuts i now have all the interior boards that i need to attach the two frames together and i'm going to do this using pocket hole screws i really like craig's pocket hole screws because they're so strong and the way that we're doing this we're not going to be able to see any of these fasteners from the outside of the workbench depending on how the boards are going to be used i'm either putting pocket hole screws in the edge of the board or in the faces now before installing any of these boards it would be a really good time to go ahead and put a few more screws in each one of these joints to help strengthen them up but before i put those screws in i always like to test fit the boards that i'm going to be putting in place so that none of the pocket hole screws run into any of the previously installed screws then i go ahead and screw these together and sometimes it'd be nice to have an extra hand or somebody to help hold this up for you [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Applause] [Music] then i headed over to the table saw to modify two of these boards and basically all i'm doing is cutting a rabbet out of the top of these and this will connect to the table saw ledge and something that the table saw will sit into then after fitting the table saw in place i realized that the right side and the left side are not symmetrical and i didn't account for that in the planning of the project so i just had to make a modification to the top rail and then the vertical piece that connects into it once those two things were notched out for the legs and then for the little connecting rail from front to back we were good to go then heading over to the miter saw station i installed two more support rails one on each side then i put in a front rail uh made sure i checked my measurements that it was the exact size that i needed then i screwed that and two other support rails in to hold the miter saw [Applause] when test fitting the miter saw i found out that i'm about two degrees short on the left hand side and on the right hand side so i might have to do a little bit of clearancing but it fits and it looks pretty good for now all right so it's really starting to look like a workbench now at this point i know that the miter saw the table saw in the planer the three big things that i wanted in this workbench all fit now i can go back and reinforce this frame to do this i'm going to measure and cut boards to fit in all the openings in the frame i want these boards to be extremely tight to lock everything together then i'm going to use titebond 3 wood glue i've just had really good luck with this stuff and it's indoor outdoor use and extremely strong i'm going to put a nice coating on either side clamp these together and then pre-drill and screw them all together [Applause] [Music] this is probably the part where i went wrong probably would have been easier just for me to leave the glue and then chip it off later [Music] [Music] [Music] then when we get behind the table saw i'm going to go ahead and put a horizontal piece underneath the remaining legs of the table saw this is not only going to help hold up the back of the table saw and support it but it's going to lock the two verticals together as well then i'm going to brace this just like i did all the other parts of the frame [Applause] [Applause] all right now that the workbench is fully assembled i can go ahead and start installing the casters and i'll be honest with you i've never used a caster like this before i saw somebody that highly recommended these on youtube and figured i'd give them a try i bought these on amazon and to be honest i think these are a cheaper version of a really expensive caster but so far they look to be pretty well built so these are a leveling caster and the whole idea behind them is that they fully rotate and there's a wheel obviously on there that allows the workbench to roll around but then when you want to lock it in place there's that dial that you can turn that will lower that rubber foot and lift the caster in whatever it's on off of the wheel this seems like it's going to lock the workbench in really well and or potentially help me level it on an uneven surface to install the casters i lined them up under a main vertical piece marked out where the holes were going to go pre-drilled them and then screwed them in with a one-inch lag screw all right so i repeated that same process five more times and i have a total of six casters on here so two on either end and then two in the center uh and this thing rolls around really easy i was concerned about the smaller wheel size on these casters but even on the carpet on this side of the garage it rolls around pretty easy on the other smooth side of the garage it rolls around with no effort at all and then the other cool thing about these casters is it has that other piece that you can adjust so that it clamps down and it really locks the workbench in place now these casters aren't perfect but with all six rubber feet down and wheels up off the ground this thing is not going anywhere i've never seen a lockable caster be able to hold something this tight so it's not ideal that you have to get down there and unscrew those things or screw them back up in but man when they're down and if you want something sturdy it looks like these are going to do a pretty good job then back underneath the table saw i installed two more support boards and a set of heavy duty drawer slides to help me install the planer to do this i used screws and those same lag bolts the only problem you may run into is the head of the lag bolt might be too big and the locking mechanism might hit on that when it slides by so i had to make a minor adjustment still used lag bolts in some places just not the whole way then using some two by fours and pocket hole screws i created a basic shelf to attach the inside drawer slide [Applause] [Music] with the planer in place i slid it out to make sure that it didn't hit anything on the table saw and then i race it all the way up to see how thick i could plane things before i ran out of space underneath the table saw the big thing was being able to use the power switch then i screwed it down to the shell now that everything's in place i can see that i might have a potential problem with dust collection and that backboard that's supporting the back of the table saw it's also hitting on the outfeed table of the planer and even if that board wasn't there the outfeed table would still hit when i'm trying to slide the planer out if you have a solution for this let me know but i'm not so much worried about the outfeed table of the planer because it's so easy to take off and then put back on that i'll just take it off and put it back on every time i use the planer and the one on the front works perfectly fine so i think we're going to be okay there also i haven't made up my mind yet whether i'm going to be using the planer when it's still underneath the table saw or i'm going to slide it out every time to use it then back on the other side of the workbench i'm going to have an overhang because of the way my garage wall is so i installed these supports with some more pocket hole screws then i brought over the piece for the top and for right now i'm going to use a piece of three-quarter inch maple plywood the factory edges on this plywood weren't great so using a square i marked out a square line and then made a nice clean cut with the track saw then once everything was lined up i went underneath and marked out the bottom dimensions this would have been a really nice time to have a trim router bit but the craig track saw worked pretty well [Music] after that i cut a half inch thick piece of maple plywood for the miter saw to sit on this is only temporary it'll have to be trimmed and shimmed later then with the top back on i test fit the miter saw in its exact location and i used a pencil on the farthest back part of the miter saw to help me draw an arc where i was going to cut this top piece i did this from multiple different locations so i came out with multiple different arcs trying to find the farthest point out then i extended the lines where i couldn't and trace the bottoms i cut the straight parts with the track saw and then after building up my courage i cut the curve part with the jigsaw [Music] after a few adjustments it came out looking like this and the saw rotates back and forth with plenty of room to spare on both sides then finally back over at the table saw i needed to install the front and rear rails to support the fence i did this by installing the original hardware back into the front of the table saw i used the level not to make sure that it was level just to make sure that everything was lined up and flush i drilled holes and installed new longer bolts and bolted the fence to the rails of the workbench i also relocated the on off switch a little bit closer and tested to see if the fence worked all right at this point we can almost start using a workbench really the only thing we would need to do is permanently attach the top make sure i shim it up and so everything's flush with the top of the table saw in the miter saw to make things as accurate as possible uh you could add a piece of plywood underneath to add a little bit more storage and then maybe a power strip to plug all these tools in with and you could start using it but that's not where we're gonna stop in part two i'm gonna add a bunch of storage and dust collection and i'm gonna do it a little bit differently than i think most people do and then in part three if there is one we're gonna go ahead and add maybe even a few more tools to this to make it even closer to that ultimate all-in-one woodworking mobile workstation workbench that i'm trying to build but i would like to hear your thoughts what machines do you think need to go in this workbench or what would you like to see kind of in the future for this one thing that i would like to note is these machines that are in here are not the smallest and most compact versions of the machines that we could have bought i tried to invest in higher quality tools for example the table saw that is a still a contractor's great saw but it's not one of the cheaper ones it is a cheaper table saw and for the diy homeowner woodworker i think it's a great saw and the reason that i work with this one is because of a fence it has a cast iron top and it has a really nice fence that helps keep things a little bit more accurate when you put a good blade on here combined with that fence i think you're going to get some pretty good results the delta planar that i have on the bottom there pretty much most people i think would agree that's probably about the best bench top cleaner that a homeowner diy-er can buy yes there are bigger better tools out there but i think for the value in the size that you get out of that one it's probably about as good as you can get and then down on the other end i didn't get into any of the fancy miter saws that like scissor action or fold up that would have been really nice to save some space but this one i really have had good luck with i like dewalt miter saws and corded tools this one's a double bevel or maybe it's only a single bevel but slider miter saw and i've had really good luck with it it's a little bit bigger so all these tools were not exactly the most space-saving tools but i was i think we were able to fit those pretty efficiently into what i think is a is a smaller workbench and the reason that i think it's a smaller workbench is because most of the workbenches that i see on youtube are four by eight there's no way that i have room for a four by eight workbench in this small of an area so this one's right around 32 inches wide and it's a little over eight feet long making it fit in that position in my garage back there almost perfectly and it's going to have a ton of storage when i want to use my tools you just wheel it out there's no setup i don't have to flip anything up i don't have to lift any tools up i can use them all right where they are uh the most setup that i'll have to do is rotate the miter saw to 90 degrees or whatever angle i'm looking for i can use the planer if i'm planing stuff i think it's under four and a half inches in thickness so in theory i could use the planer right exactly where it is if i have to go over four and a half inches in thickness i slide it out and you're ready to go so i really like where this is going i'm looking forward to the future of what else we can add in here and what you guys are going to think if you like this project and want to see where i'm going with it i encourage you guys to subscribe and other than that i hope to see you guys in another video

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Length: 18min 40sec (1120 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 14 2022