LK where do you get wood from? Big box or building supply/lumber yard? Great work. Really impressed.
I would like to know as well.
Currently, big box places like Lowe's and Home Depot. I am the dickhead who will pick through the entire pile of lumber checking for straightness. However, 2 items I plan to pick up this year are a thickness planer and a jointer so I can start buying the rough sawed lumber from a local yard and mill it myself. The cost savings would pay for the equipment within a year.
However, that won't solve my problem with cost of sheet goods. 3/4" hardwood plywood runs close to $50/sheet at the big box stores. I'd like to see it down around $30-35 so I can take on some more complicated projects.
My long term shop project is going to be building a mobile workstation for my table saw and router. I currently have a huge mobile workbench that is in need of replacing, and I'd like the next one to have the tools built in, have integrated dust collection, and have as much tool storage space as physically possible. It's a pain in the ass trying to locate stuff in my shop sometimes. I spent an hour looking for one of my router bits the other day.
I'm planning to build something similar to one of these:
I anticipate this being a long term project that should take most of the year. I've got a very large space this can be stored in the garage. I'll likely chronicle it on here. Currently I'm creating plans in Sketch Up. The things I know for certain I am going to put in it:
* Ryobi 10" table saw
* Ryobi router
* Dust collection system that will tie into my shop vac (planning on adding a cyclone filter to the shop vac next month to maximize dust collection)
* Base will be torsion box construction for rigidity
* It will ride on 6-8 casters, all of which will have leveling wheels to adjust because my garage floor has a 2-3 degree slope.
* New fence system to span the entire length of the table. Looking at aluminum extrusions for the materials. Cheap, lightweight, and would have slots for jigs that I like to use.
* Storage, storage, storage
* Folding outfeed table that will double as a downdraft table for fine sanding.