Homemade Plywood cutting table / sawhorses ?

[honeydoman]

thanks for the tip, just completed mine the other day,  I put it on some of the yellow saw horses you buy at HD.

 

[Monju123]

Here we are, a group of people who have very high end tools as a common point of interest, and what generate a large,and deserved, degree of interest? SAWHORSES. It just goes to show, the flowers won't be pretty if the roots aren't strong.

 

[UCLA Fan]

The cutting trable is simply some ridgid foam insullation glued to a 4' x 8' x 3/4" construction grade fir plywood sheet...

I use two purchased folding plastic sawhorses (2 for $30 from the BORG) then I add two 24" wide hollow core luan flush-faced interior doors side by side as a very light weight bench top. The doors were $10 each and being torsion box construction they are much stronger (and significantly lighter) then 3/4 piywood. Next I too add a 2" rigid foam insulation cutting top. Since my shop is small I cut the rigid foam to fit the width of the doors (24") this improves storage and mobility. With this setup I can have a portable cutting bench that is 24 or 48 inches wide depending on my needs. Total investment - $70.  In my case I do not glue the rigid foam to the doors I like using the door as additional table surface when needed so I just lay the foam on top of the doors when cutting.

Frank C

 

[neoshed]

I built 2 of the ones like Frank's a couple of weeks ago. The drawings are from a book of jigs and fixtures by Nick Engler which I scored for about $3.

I modelled it in SketchUp to help work the kinks out so if anyone here wants the skippy file I'll be glad to post it.

 

[butzla]

I modelled it in SketchUp to help work the kinks out so if anyone here wants the skippy file I'll be glad to post it.

Yes please!

 

[neoshed]

skippy is here mate

 

[butzla]

Dead link, dude.

 

[neoshed]

oops

try it now mate