After she bought me the two Model A trucks six years ago, my wife then said I should get a building to do the work and store the truck in when it's done. Not being one to go against my wife when she has such a great idea, I went and looked at pre-made buildings. I came up with a 14 x 20 building made here in Amish country that I though would do the trick. She thought it was too small and I should have gone bigger (sorry men...I"M KEEPING HER!) Anyway the truck fit and so did the small amount of power tools I had at the time.
After working on the truck and acquiring a bunch of new tools to make the job easier...the truck no longer fit and went into the back of the garage on the house, putting my regular driver outside. Now that I have just about every tool I would need to attack any wood working project I might try (on a small scale), portability bacame the key so I made roll around stands for the planer, bandsaw, router setup and combination saw. Here's the one I made for the router.
What's really neat is all the bits are stored in the drawer below the table. It has a router speed control and a 'panic' safety switch too. The router is an old Craftsman 1/2' / 1/4' collet setup and I removed the handle setup so I could put it into a lift system I made from wood. I really couldn't justify buying one of the commercial grade lift systems mnade so I designed and built one of my own. All you see is a large acorn nut recessed into the table top that you turn clockwise to raise the bit and counter-clockwise to lower the bit. Anyone who might want to know more just let me know and I'll share the design with everyone. Underneath is storage for tubs containing project parts for wooden locks, mail truck banks, nut crackers, etc.
After working on the truck and acquiring a bunch of new tools to make the job easier...the truck no longer fit and went into the back of the garage on the house, putting my regular driver outside. Now that I have just about every tool I would need to attack any wood working project I might try (on a small scale), portability bacame the key so I made roll around stands for the planer, bandsaw, router setup and combination saw. Here's the one I made for the router.
What's really neat is all the bits are stored in the drawer below the table. It has a router speed control and a 'panic' safety switch too. The router is an old Craftsman 1/2' / 1/4' collet setup and I removed the handle setup so I could put it into a lift system I made from wood. I really couldn't justify buying one of the commercial grade lift systems mnade so I designed and built one of my own. All you see is a large acorn nut recessed into the table top that you turn clockwise to raise the bit and counter-clockwise to lower the bit. Anyone who might want to know more just let me know and I'll share the design with everyone. Underneath is storage for tubs containing project parts for wooden locks, mail truck banks, nut crackers, etc.