Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Build a Portable Workshop That Can Handle All Kinds of Projects and Then Shrink Down in Size
lifehacker.com: Having a big, nice woodcutting station is great, but not everyone has the space required for that. DIYer Paoson Woodworking solves this with a portable workshop that folds down when not in use.
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Im not even going to talk about what this guy is making. Well, I’ll touch on it. I think this is a cool, clever design for a shop with limited work space and it is built well as it appears. But what I really want to talk about is this guy. First, I have no clue what that accent is or where this guy is from. At some points I wondered if it was a computer automated voice. Besides his voice I am confused by the stuff in his shop. On one hand your table saw is home built, but you have festool drills and stuff. You could buy a more powerful saw than what he has for one eighth the cost of a festool drill. It is clear name brand is not important to him since he has som ryobi stuff and a lot of home made tools so why the mix of extremely low budget and high budget stuff. I am not saying he is wrong, I am genuinely curious. Now this guy is another guy who clearly likes making his own tools and that is awesome, you can see from that drill press/router/mill that he is pretty clever, and there are a lot of people on the internet right now who are coming up with cool ideas like this.
I understand the appeal of making a cabinet like this. With the time and cost that he put into making this, I think he could have bought real tools to do the jobs they were designed to do. I understand mounting a router in a table, and even making your own router table. Mounting a jigsaw upside down just seems like a bad idea. They are designed to work in a specific way for a reason. There may be nothing wrong with it, but it just seems like a bad idea. The part of this that I absolutely wouldn’t do is mounting a circular saw upside down in a table. Especially in this instance because it seems like all the adjustments are difficult to get to. I’m sure that there are companies that make circular saws that are designed to mount into tables, but I wouldn’t make one myself. With a lot of these types of projects, I seem to find myself saying ‘buy the tools that are designed to perform the tasks they are intended to.’
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