Bench top tool stand

An extremely easy and quick project is building a stand for a bench top tool.  If you have a well equipped workshop they can be built from cut offs and scrap wood.  Other than a pocket hole jig, no special tools are necessary.  For the last stand I built the only purchase necessary was plastic furniture guides for the legs.  

Step 1 Materials needed:

The dimensions of the stand are determined by the size  of the tool you are building it for.  For my newly purchased scroll saw I chose a height of 30 inches as the best for working at the saw sitting on a stool.  The foot print of the saw was perfect  for a 24 inch wide piece of plywood cut off on hand.  Four 30 inch legs I made from a couple of 2 x 4's on hand.  Stretchers were also made from cut-offs from other projects.  The stand top should be about one half an inch larger in each dimension than  the assembled frame, and the plywood shelf the exact dimensions of the frame.

Comments

[mbusby]

Its a workshop stand not a Chippendale chair. He saw the need, came up with a solution and it works.

So as most of us older Aussies would say - pull ya head in ya drongo.

I built a shop stool basically the same way (pocket holes and PVA glue) and it holds my more than ample 145kg bulk without any problems and yes I have also used it as a step stool to change my fluro lights.

[Wheatridge]

Hey there down under. Thanks for the nice comment. You are right. I had four of five work stands in my shop costing from $25.00 upward. I have now made two more using just shop cut offs and scrap. They work quite well.

[aleholder]

I like this. I've made a couple of quick benches for my workshop but they didn't come out very good. I'm going to give this a try and rebuild my two benches.

Thanks for the instructable!