A couple months ago Rockler sent a few things my way, one of which was the T-Track Table Top. I have been wanting to down size my table saw out feed table as it was just too large with no great storage solution. So I moved it out, replaced it with my current assembly table, and planned to make a new assembly/work station with better storage. This is something that I developed over 7 years of working and knowing what I want close at hand and where I want it. Your storage ideas and needs may be different.
I had a lot of left over lumber and plywood kicking around the shop so I decided to kill two birds with one stone and use as much of my scrap material as possible in this project, including the hardware. I made the basic stand from 2×4 lumber that was salvaged from a building demo so the boards were at least 30 years old and had nice old growth. The drawers fronts were from a shipping crate and the panels and drawers were from plywood and melamine I had from projects past over 4 years ago. The pulls are Nick Ferry’s design (to see the details on how to make the pulls check out his article) and I had the conduit left over from a wiring job. I keep too much stuff, I know.
Here are links to most of the things I used with this build:
Kreg Jig K4 Pocket Hole System http://bit.ly/2zVf8tm
Rockler T-Track Table Top http://bit.ly/2BBtY5y
Rockler Universal Drawer Slide Jig http://bit.ly/2BqRJfM
Rockler T-Track http://bit.ly/2AwZUKK
T-Track Hold Down Clamps http://bit.ly/2ivkDrf
US General 11 Compartment Drawer Organizer http://amzn.to/2hWuwdN
US General 6 Compartment Drawer Organizer http://amzn.to/2AosmdO
US General 3-Piece Drawer Organizer Set http://amzn.to/2yKM4Ev
2” Locking Casters http://amzn.to/2hYkGrU
22” Over Travel Drawer Glides http://amzn.to/2jc3ouT
The construction was pretty much straight forward. If you have a pocket hole jig you can make this stand in an afternoon. The time consuming portion was the drawer boxes. I tried to make the joints for one side of each box at one shot using Matthias Wandel’s Screw Advance Box Joint Jig, but it was a bit finicky and needed some more practice to get the joints perfect all the way around the boxes. So I made William Ng’s box joint jig and it worked out much better for the vertical pull outs. I like the simplicity of William’s jig and the accuracy is dead on, every time. No questions or thinking, that’s what I like.
Check out the video on this build. It will walk you through the basic steps and process of the build. Plans are available which include a SkectchUp model, 27 page PDF instructions, detailed measurements, and links to products.
