MFTC portable workshop

[ScotF]

Outstanding!

Scot

 

[nclemmons]

I just ordered the plans.

Really excellent job.  I can see you put a LOT of thought into it.

neil

 

[Guilliaume woodworks]

Tim, fantastic !  What dollar figure would you estimate this project? And is there anything you would add or modify?

 

[Timtool]

Tim, fantastic !  What dollar figure would you estimate this project? And is there anything you would add or modify?

Thank you,

It's hard to put a price tag on it, there isn't that much material in one, and in my case i made half of it with scraps. The only thing i had to buy was 2 sheets of ply, the T-tracks, wheels, slides and some hardware. There is a list of everything needed in the plans.

Things i would change? Well nothing that wouldn't add more problems than it could solve. The first prototype has 25m of electric cable on board, connected to a socket with 4 outlets on the MFTC, it was really practical but it added way too much weight. The cord of the CT vac is long enough in 80% of cases to reach an outlet.
I gave this allot of thought and spent dozens of hours on sketchup making all possible combinations, shapes and mechanisms to try and find the best i could. Countless times i started from zero on a new idea and be stuck in the end because there is an tremendous amount of interaction of all the parts.
I changed a few things after building the final model, like putting adjustable feet in the MFTC base as well, and not only on the table legs, which has greatly improved stability.

In the future i might add a miter saw table extension, where the table of the saw sits flat with the surface. The extension table design is highly customizable and simple, and the legs fold into the base taking minimal space when not in use.

 

[moody]

Looking really good! How much for the plans?

 

[bpitch]

Looking really good! How much for the plans?

Looks good Tim, I'm going to check out your website now...

Note: I could not see the price for the plans on your website until I clicked on the pay now button, but E7.44 is a great price and I hope loads of people download your plans...I just did.

 

[GhostFist]

I bought plans as well

 

[sancho57]

I wish I had the time to build all these projects…

Maybe when I retire from my day job Ill have time.

 

[RC]

Don't know if I'll ever find time to build this but bought the plans to show my support for this sort of great community design just like I did with the MFTB and UWB plans. Maybe one day I'll actually build these.

Keep on innovating Tim!

 

[mohrab]

Great job Tim.  Will order the plans!

Just used my MFTB this weekend for the first time that I built from your plans.  I clamped it to the fender of a wood chipper (doing work for an Arborist friend) to cut small pieces of oak baseboard for the kitchen.  Found it easy to clamp small pieces to cut with my dovetail saw.

 

[Alan m]

Great job Tim.  Will order the plans!

Just used my MFTB this weekend for the first time that I built from your plans.  I clamped it to the fender of a wood chipper (doing work for an Arborist friend) to cut small pieces of oak baseboard for the kitchen.  Found it easy to clamp small pieces to cut with my dovetail saw.

come on we want pics.
iv got a few half built since the plans came out. i really need to finish them

 

[JayStPeter]

Very cool

 

[Timtool]

Added the video to the first post!

@Mohrab it would be great if you could send me some pics of your MFTB
on my site there are a few as well, and as i promised in the MFTB thread the first two who sent me pics of the MFTB got MFTC plans for free.

 

[Alan m]

great looking bench tim.
you can really see the thought put into it

 

[Deansocial]

Looks pretty handy

 

[Dan1210]

excellent work! you should work for festool the toolbox looks quite handy!

 

[hitandruntz]

great job! would be nice to see a video of the transformation.

 

[Tinker]

Great job, Tim.

I have a very small/very cluttered shop.  Something like this could solve many of the problems i am trying to solve.

Tinker

 

[Jalvis]

After watching the Video you can really see the function.....would be very handy for my business.....I'll take two!

 

[epicxt]

Wow! This would fit into my workflow perfectly since I pretty much do all work on site. Please update this thread when you have the sketch up file available in imperial units!