Hello forum,
My name is Kevin and I am new to this board. I have been a rookie builder / woodworker for a few years now working on items like tables, floating shelves, a king size bed, etc... I will share a few pictures in a follow up to this thread as I have read that people like pictures. A little about myself. I have 4 boys, my oldest is 8, then 6 and a set of 2 year old twins. While I have my hands full, my escape is often the garage where I get to work on projects for our house. My oldest 2 are starting to catch the bug and love helping with some of the projects.
I am starting to build a new shop in my extra bay of a three car garage. I currently work off a 4x8 workbench with a dewalt table saw that I dropped in and a dewalt 12 miter saw with a custom table I built 2 years ago. I am at the stage where we have several projects to build in the house, most of which includes building cabinets (Lockers, full wall of desks, Full set of built-in bookshelves, and a media center). I would like to finish my shop and get a router and router table set up prior to starting inside. I am thinking about donating my miter saw table (pictured attached) and building an L shaped row of cabinets and work table that would house the miter saw in the same spot and a router table built in on the short side of the "L". The cabinets on the long side is about 120 inches this would run under the wall tool storage in picture and the miter saw would be in the same place as it is now. The short side of the L shaped cabinets would be 76 inches, which will be on the right side of the picture. To left where we have the cube shelves will be floor to ceiling cabinets to house large items and safety gear.
Here is my question. Would you add the built in router table into the custom cabinets on the short side of the L or would you build it into the 4x8 workbench that already has the table saw or would it be best on the built in 76 in stretch of cabinets. By the way one piece of info is that edge of the cabinet tabletop will be open so to the right of the router would be open for longer stock. Let me know if this doesn't make sense and I will provide a picture of my thoughts.
Also sorry for the messy table top. My workbench has built in cabinets on side and stores my paint and it is under construction getting new 5 in casters this weekend.
Again happy to be a part of the forum and excited to learn a lot and make a lot of new friends.
My name is Kevin and I am new to this board. I have been a rookie builder / woodworker for a few years now working on items like tables, floating shelves, a king size bed, etc... I will share a few pictures in a follow up to this thread as I have read that people like pictures. A little about myself. I have 4 boys, my oldest is 8, then 6 and a set of 2 year old twins. While I have my hands full, my escape is often the garage where I get to work on projects for our house. My oldest 2 are starting to catch the bug and love helping with some of the projects.
I am starting to build a new shop in my extra bay of a three car garage. I currently work off a 4x8 workbench with a dewalt table saw that I dropped in and a dewalt 12 miter saw with a custom table I built 2 years ago. I am at the stage where we have several projects to build in the house, most of which includes building cabinets (Lockers, full wall of desks, Full set of built-in bookshelves, and a media center). I would like to finish my shop and get a router and router table set up prior to starting inside. I am thinking about donating my miter saw table (pictured attached) and building an L shaped row of cabinets and work table that would house the miter saw in the same spot and a router table built in on the short side of the "L". The cabinets on the long side is about 120 inches this would run under the wall tool storage in picture and the miter saw would be in the same place as it is now. The short side of the L shaped cabinets would be 76 inches, which will be on the right side of the picture. To left where we have the cube shelves will be floor to ceiling cabinets to house large items and safety gear.
Here is my question. Would you add the built in router table into the custom cabinets on the short side of the L or would you build it into the 4x8 workbench that already has the table saw or would it be best on the built in 76 in stretch of cabinets. By the way one piece of info is that edge of the cabinet tabletop will be open so to the right of the router would be open for longer stock. Let me know if this doesn't make sense and I will provide a picture of my thoughts.
Also sorry for the messy table top. My workbench has built in cabinets on side and stores my paint and it is under construction getting new 5 in casters this weekend.
Again happy to be a part of the forum and excited to learn a lot and make a lot of new friends.
