I am looking to build an outfeed extension table for my bridgewwod 10″ cabinet saw. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions or plans for building one. What wood should I use? How large should it be? Any suggestions would help.
Regards , Steve.
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Dear Chief,
I use a Delta Unisaw.................. sorry, I had to throw that in there!
Best,
John
Hey John.
That is ok. I just like bridgewood
Steve
Dear Chief,
Sorry about that, I meant that I use a Unisaw as my outfeed table. I use a PM, but I kick myself for not looking harder at the Bridgewood. Seems like a great saw. The Unisaw is my friends'. I'm sure the others will have some more practical suggestions.Best,John
"Sorry about that, I meant that I use a Unisaw as my outfeed table."
"I'm sure the others will have some more practical suggestions."I'm thinking about buying a Saw Stop to use as an outfeed table for my 66.
Dear Mike,
Now that would be COOL!!! Although I might be tempted to use the PM as the outfeed at that point.Best,John
Since you have both, and if you have the space, you could set the saws up facing each other with a common outfeed table between them. Leave one set for crosscut and the other for ripping.
Dear Mike,
Actually, that is how I am set up, sort of. I don't use the Unisaw, it's not even plugged in. Both saws have a 52" fence and extension table. Facing each other, the Unisaws extension is the PM outfeed table and vice versa.Best,John
John,I'm envious. Wish I had the space (and cash) for two saws. I worked briefly in a shop where we had an old Delta and a Grizzly facing each other with a long outfeed table between them. The Grizzly was equipped with an Excalibur slider, and the Delta was pretty much dedicated to ripping. It worked out quite nicely. In my small shop, I can just about rip an 8' board. Hope I get out of the basement someday. Plug that dang Unisaw in!Mike
Dear Mike,
Wow! That sounds like quite the set up with the Griz & Delta. I was always curious about the excalibur, but I may replace the whole mess (Someday) with a euro setup like a Minimax. I can't say that I love the fence, but I dig the idea of sliding table. Nice, compact unit too. Mabe I won't stack stuff all over it as well! Don't sweat the small shop. A shop is a shop and to have one is better than not to have one.Best,John
Steve,
I've seen three options out there but I only remember one plan..Richard Jones had a link to his design...table with two legs, utilizing the TS for the other two legs and a drop leaf side to expand capacity of the width when needed. Personally, I build a drop down torsion box with cheap fold up legs. It attached to a platform off the back of the TS with piano hinge..measures about 48x48 overall. The thrid design is just a pull up table/workbench.
Hey BG,
would you have a pics on the one that you built. Also I saw one that used a banquet table with wooden blocks under the legs.
Steve
Steve,
Sorry, I don't have one of the camera thingies.
The trick to the drop down model was building a platform off the back of the TS. I drilled holes in the angle iron and bolted on a slab of wood...about 48"x 12". I did not try to get a slab that was thick enough to be flush with the TS top..height differences were made up with plywood. I then ran a coupla supports down from the underside of the slab to the tops of wheels on my shop fox base..I could have run the supports to the cabinet saw sides as an alternative.
What is left to make is the drop down torsion box with the cheap ($10)fold up legs. Goverening its size is the swing to the ground...and the height of the legs...so it end up being about 32x48x4"ish. My material for the table was laminate because I use this for glue-ups too.PS. I think there was a design in the latest issue of FWW. I remember seeing where someone had put plastic pipe extensions on the foldup legs for added height...just a thought.
Edited 8/21/2006 8:16 am ET by BG
Hey BG.
would you happen to have the issue number of the fww. I would like to try to get that issue.
thanks,
Steve
Steve,
Issue #186, pg 20...Quick outfeed table...
BG,
I just went and got it. They have one at lowes (table) that sells for about 40.00 dollars. I'm thinking about going that route.
Steve
If you are looking a stationary arrangement, I use an out-table that is 4 x 5.5' with drawers on two sides and fixed shelving on the back side. The top is particle board with a plastic laminate. The area under the end of the saw is an "L" shaped cab to hold saw blades and whatnot while the other leg are shelves for books and shop manuals.
Doug,
that is a nice set up. I don't think that I'm ready to make something like that but, I'm looking to build just the table and legs for the ts. I have 2 sheets of 5x5 baltic birch plywood that is what I like to make the table out of. I also saw a plane useing a folding table that seems pretty good any suggestions on building the table and legs?
The concern that I have is the back apron of the saw how do you work around that? I'm just learning to build these things for my shop (as you can tell).
thanks
Steve
Looking for Richard's table, didn't find it, but found this link in my Favorites. Moves with your saw if you're mobile.
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
BG and forestgirl, thanks for the mention both of you. Unfortunately the run-off table I created and was published was for a sliding table saw.
The trick with it was being able to extend the surface sideways for support during ripping operations while the saws sliding table was set in a rearwards position.
When the saws sliding table is in use for cross-cutting the run-off support needs to be out of the way to prevent impeding the movement.
The mechanism for the support table's extending leaves was a draw-leaf table style. This is where the leaves store under the main table top and extend on wooden bearers that pass through notches cut into the top edge of the table frame.
As such, the support table wasn't really designed for a typical US style cabinet saw but there's no real reason why the design couldn't be modified to suit. Slainte.Richard Jones Furniture
Thanks, Richard. Not that I see one of those saws in my future, LOL, but interesting to know how you worked around the challenging design. Maybe Tom can use it for his MiniMax combo machine. ;-)forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Rich ol' chap, I just gave away 14 years of Woodshop News. The only issue I kept was the
" How to tame a slider ".DJK
Flatterer!
Slainte.Richard Jones Furniture
I built my workbench to double as the outfeed table. It's nothing fancy, just a stout doug fir framework with a plywood top.
I don't have a bridgewood, but I have a Unisaw. Basicaly, cabinet saws are all the same. I you have enough space in your workshop, you should consider a fixed exrention table of either MDF or Plywood covered with a high pressure laminate. I built mine out of plywood and I use it everyday for making my furniture. I used it full with so a sheet of 4 x 8 will stay on the table once it has cleared the blade. I'm about to change my table with on that will include storage and more support to the top beacause it has sagged in the center since there was no vertical member there.
Good luc with yours. I would use MDF and beef it up with a torsion box out of poplar.
Marc
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