Popular Post Chestnut Posted January 15, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 I've wanted to upgrade the space around my miter saw for a while now. When i originally did the station i just threw some shelves up quick to hold stuff but it was never an efficient use of space. For my birthday 9+ months ago my mom bought me a KM-2 kerfmaster from bridge city. Months went by, i watched the company sale go through with the promise of delivering current orders by X date. No word on my KM-2. Finally i told my mom to call and inquire about the sale. Something got missed but they are awesome and had one and it was in the mail that day, to my mom ... That was October, finally around Christmas, they remembered to bring my birthday gift. Better late than never. I didn't care, I'm just glad i got one. So i decided on making the shelf around 55" tall and 38" wide with 3 shelves. This allowed for a track saw to be placed on the rack as well as a good stack of sandpaper containers with space top open them up. Now that i have this tool that makes dados really easy a case with dados seems like the perfect solution. I milled up a bunch of material and joined boards together to get 13" wide. I grabbed the K-2 and did the calibration procedure for my blade. It required a sacrifice to some god and a ritualistic dance but i just followed the instructions and it worked perfectly on my rest cut. I set the fence for the bottom of the dado for the bottom shelf. I set the KM-2 in the spot it needed to be and clamped down the stop block that goes with it. I made the bottom shoulder cut then adjusted the fence to the right to make the top of the dado cut. Both of these were done with my miter gauge to keep square to the front of the case. After i had the two cuts i used the miter gauge to hog the rest of the material out. I flipped it over and it was a perfect fit with no finesse necessary. Cut the rest of the dados joined the top and bottom with dominoes and added shellac. I think I've mentioned a couple times that the redwood i have is a thirsty bugger. This whole shelf drank up a quart of seal coat before it started to build. I didn't count coats but it was a few. I'd wipe on a heavy coat and literally would watch it sink into the wood. It looks awesome once you get a finish built. I used the junk pieces i have. I made sure to use pieces with cathedrals and defects like knots. I have quite a few boards set aside that are 8" wide and 8' long that are nothing but clear vertical strait grain.. Got some stuff loaded up. Plenty of space left. My track saws before this sat on the floor under my assembly table. I really didn't like it but it beat putting them back in the silly systainer that ALWAYS are in the way. Spacewastingtainer is what they should be called. Those Morris chair forms are annoying.... i want to burn them or something but dang i might use them some day..... Edit. Picture from a step back. Wasn't sure if i should put this in project showcase product reviews or shop. I decided that the whole thing is shop related. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeslayer Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 looks great Drew, shop that's organized means more work gets done faster and more efficiently. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 I was taught early on in forum life that sustainers were a status symbol . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 I like the systainers personally. In a perfect world my little bench thing would have pullout platforms that hold the systainers, instead of me stacking them 2-3 high and 2 deep (so if I want something on the bottom back, I have to remove maybe as many as 6 systainers.) I can see how the same pullout things would hold more tools - but then I'd have all these systainers and nowhere to put them. I also have my sandpaper in a systainer. It's good but could work better for me. If I hadn't bought it used online full of sandpaper I'd not have bought one just to hold paper. Anyway, looks nice. You are using your space well. I'm envious you are able to get a miter station in there. I'm hoping to figure that out some day myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted January 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 4 minutes ago, Cliff said: I like the systainers personally. In a perfect world my little bench thing would have pullout platforms that hold the systainers, instead of me stacking them 2-3 high and 2 deep (so if I want something on the bottom back, I have to remove maybe as many as 6 systainers.) I can see how the same pullout things would hold more tools - but then I'd have all these systainers and nowhere to put them. I also have my sandpaper in a systainer. It's good but could work better for me. If I hadn't bought it used online full of sandpaper I'd not have bought one just to hold paper. Anyway, looks nice. You are using your space well. I'm envious you are able to get a miter station in there. I'm hoping to figure that out some day myself. I keep my dominoes in a systainer. I mean to each their own. Some of them like the ones for sand paper and the dominoes make sense a lot more. Even the sanders i could hear an argument for but I could probably fit a couple ETS sanders in the wasted space in the TSC 55 & TSC75 case. Also I'm lazy so after a while of storing the tools in the case lead to cases strewn about and tools sitting on work surfaces. That got old fast. I just chucked the cases in the attic of my shed to be forgotten about until .... well i hope i do just forget about them for ever. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chip Sawdust Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 I never really thought systainers would be that useful. Aren't they basically just plastic boxes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom King Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 NIcer than anything that will ever go in my shop! I made some basement windows once out of Redwood. I had remembered reading that it "takes paint well". It gave new meaning to that phrase. I had read the same thing about Poplar, but those are two EXTREMES. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chip Sawdust Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 Poplar plywood should always be painted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted January 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 10 hours ago, Chip Sawdust said: I never really thought systainers would be that useful. Aren't they basically just plastic boxes? They are really useful if your tools leave you shop.Because they lock together they make excellent out feed support when you are setting up a shop. Also seen them used as a stand to help hang DC piping. I'm giving them a rough deal they arne't that bad. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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