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I went to the library a couple of days ago looking for some harness and saddle making books since I was not finding the info I wanted on-line (doesn't fail me often). To my surprise our local library which is pretty big didn't have a thing either... Not wanting to waste a trip I checked out 4 books on woodworking shops. 3 were "OK" but the 4th I thought was great. It is not a new book and some of you may own it. The name is "Woodshop Idea Book" by Andy Rae published by The Taunton Press copyright 2006.
It is one of those books that has so many good ideas in it that if you read it and can't find at least one good idea to steal you are either a genius or an idiot.
Two of the ideas that grabbed me in particular require a large shop and while my shop is fair sized at about 1400 sq. ft. I am not sure if I really have room for either one of them.
One is huge "Y" shaped table built around a cabinet saw with the saw sitting in the V part of the Y. It is in the Marc Adams school shop (lots of room).
The other table version that I am looking at more closely at is a very common table about 6' X 8' from the look of it. It is sitting in the middle of the fellows shop and serves as an out-feed table for a cabinet saw at one end. It also has a contractor's saw that has a big table extension sticking out to the right of it up against one side of the big table which also serves as the out-feed table for it. At the far end from the cabinet saw sits a third tablesaw and it likewise uses the big table as an out-feed table. The fellow can make 3 different cutting set-ups and make any of them without having to break one of them down. As best as I can tell from the picture there is also a router station built into the right side table of the number 3 saw.
He didn't have anything at the 4th side.
Sadly it would not work well with a Shopsmith due to the SS table height varying up and down But I do happen to have several table-saws.
What I was considering after seeing this one was taking my large table saw where I built a bench saw into one corner of a 4'X6' table and backing it up to my Ridgid TS-3650 as an out-feed table then moving my Rockwell tablesaw up to one side of the big table unit. The main thing would be being sure that everybody was at the same height. Not really much of a problem.


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robinson46176 wrote:I went to the library a couple of days ago looking for some harness and saddle making books since I was not finding the info I wanted on-line (doesn't fail me often). To my surprise our local library which is pretty big didn't have a thing either... Not wanting to waste a trip I checked out 4 books on woodworking shops. 3 were "OK" but the 4th I thought was great. It is not a new book and some of you may own it. The name is "Woodshop Idea Book" by Andy Rae published by The Taunton Press copyright 2006.
It is one of those books that has so many good ideas in it that if you read it and can't find at least one good idea to steal you are either a genius or an idiot.
Two of the ideas that grabbed me in particular require a large shop and while my shop is fair sized at about 1400 sq. ft. I am not sure if I really have room for either one of them.
One is huge "Y" shaped table built around a cabinet saw with the saw sitting in the V part of the Y. It is in the Marc Adams school shop (lots of room).
The other table version that I am looking at more closely at is a very common table about 6' X 8' from the look of it. It is sitting in the middle of the fellows shop and serves as an out-feed table for a cabinet saw at one end. It also has a contractor's saw that has a big table extension sticking out to the right of it up against one side of the big table which also serves as the out-feed table for it. At the far end from the cabinet saw sits a third tablesaw and it likewise uses the big table as an out-feed table. The fellow can make 3 different cutting set-ups and make any of them without having to break one of them down. As best as I can tell from the picture there is also a router station built into the right side table of the number 3 saw.
He didn't have anything at the 4th side.
Sadly it would not work well with a Shopsmith due to the SS table height varying up and down But I do happen to have several table-saws.
What I was considering after seeing this one was taking my large table saw where I built a bench saw into one corner of a 4'X6' table and backing it up to my Ridgid TS-3650 as an out-feed table then moving my Rockwell tablesaw up to one side of the big table unit. The main thing would be being sure that everybody was at the same height. Not really much of a problem.


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Gotta look at it from an engineers perspective...what if the outfeed table did move up/down (ie: jack type setup). What if either the outfeed table or the shopsmith sunk into the ground...

damagi wrote:Gotta look at it from an engineers perspective...what if the outfeed table did move up/down (ie: jack type setup). What if either the outfeed table or the shopsmith sunk into the ground...

And when cutting a bevel. . . . .

As I said, it would NOT work well with a Shopsmith... That wouldn't matter much to me since I rarely use any of my Shopsmiths as a tablesaw. When I do I still say that one of the best table extensions is another Shopsmith sitting behind the one doing the cutting.
Just set the table and fence the same on the back one, just no saw blade.