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Setup the MS and TS for cutting the wood.

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Three hours later and I have this

Let's see if it works out. I have fabricated longer welding cables already and I'll just keep the welder slightly away from the action so as not to burn the mobile base.

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Made a plywood table / workbench. I didnt want to use up 6 full length 2 x 4's (since its quite expensive ) so i decided to make 2 x 4's out of marine ply instead. Its just so much cheaper. But takes alot longer to finish. The project took around 3 - 4 hours (not counting curing time of the glue)

2 sheets of ply were cut in one go... never used my circular saw fence this extensive before.

this is how it was before. Finally i can use my saw horses! and my stocks are not piled on top of each other.

Some place to tuck my table saw jigs under too.

Will add drawers when i have more time

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Actually Bee, plywood can cost more than equivalent lumber. This is because plywood only has half the strength of lumber of the same dimensions. For example, if a design requires a 1"x1" beam of lumber, you would actually need a 2"x1" plywood beam.

Nice bench though. How many sheets of plywood is that?

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Four hours well invested. Nice build.

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may I suggest bee, use two 3/4" ply for the top and edgeband the corners both for stability and durability...

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thats two sheets of plywood for the structure and as Timber suggested, two more sheets for the top, bottom layer of the top is normal ply and the upper top will be the phenolic i have been using all along.

I didnt need the bench to have the same rigidity as a 2 x 4 lumber since it is more of an assembly table (and somewhere to pile stuff on instead of the floor :)) hence it was more of an economical based costing rather than apples to apples costing. I realized with the same dimension i needed i'd end up using 7- 8 pcs of 2 x 4's which is much more expensive than the 2 sheets of ply, and if i used normal ply it would be ridiculously cheap.

i made a mistake with the orientation of the cross members. i just made my life harder if iam going to install bottom shelves and drawers

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Easy to build space saver Spray Can Rack from 3/4" scrap plywood.

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nice... nakaka OC

I might copy this since i have a fair bit of wall space unused

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i just cant wait for accidents to happen

attached a scrap piece of acrylic to my cross cut sled. I lose headroom but its really only good for tenons. And i cut my tenons with the piece lying on the side instead of standing vertical

so far ive had three accidents

1.) changing the blade in a circular saw and table saw.. namamdali.. slip, ouch

2.) hastility trying to get the protective rubber thingy off a router bit. I grabbed the rubber thingy and i pulled.... and slice... nice, malinis hiwa ng TCT straight bit

3.) today... i was trying to saw off half a cm from a 4 cm dowel... i had the handsaw on one hand the my right hand had the dowel. I decided to have the stock meet the tool instead.. ehhh kumakapit , so pwersa pa ako... yan dumaplis at tumama sa blade index finger. leche.... Milk!

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I just needed to edge band a 1/4" thick plywood so I routed a dado on a "liston" using the RT.

I think I need more feather boards. I just used a push block to press the wood down to the bit.

I was going to use a 1/4" straight bit when I saw this bit below. I used it instead. What is the name of this bit?

As advised by Timber I routed full depth at full speed. The bit seem to work well as the cuts ran smoothly. None the less the wood was soft.

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I'll sand it down and spray paint with acrylic white. We'll use it to hang button bracelets / necklaces for display.

Looks like I need a workbench too and some more long clamps. Most of my clamps are short so tali na lang sa middle .... hehehehe 🙂

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I was going to use a 1/4" straight bit when I saw this bit below. I used it instead. What is the name of this bit?

I believe that's a core box bit from the round nose family of router bits.

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BTW, the locally available brand Ezcut makes both core box and roundnose. It's not immediately obvious that they make roundnose because only core box is listed on their main page. (Roundnose is linked as a subcategory of core box ... not what you would expect if you consider the short one to be a special case of the longer one.)

Seems that there is not universal agreement as to terms. Some manufacturers like Ezcut and MLCS call the shorter one core box and the longer one roundnose, while others do the opposite or use them interchangeably.

To complicate things, I read somewhere that in some offerings, the profile of the end is not semi-circular but rounded rectangle.

For Ezcut, it looks like cutter diameter is always >= shank diameter, unlike the one pictured.