First Build : Plywood Sourcing Challenges

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Bill Fitzmaurice
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Re: First Build : Plywood Sourcing Challenges

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Bruce Weldy
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Re: First Build : Plywood Sourcing Challenges

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Bill Fitzmaurice wrote: Wed Jan 28, 2026 4:55 pm Get one or two of these: https://www.harborfreight.com/250-lb-ca ... 1901739435
Or just build you one of these.... :mrgreen:
Workbench5 10-03.jpg
Probably the best thing I've ever built. Same height as my table saw, so it serves as an out feed when I need it. But, mostly - it's where I've built hundreds of cables, read the mail, etc. It's my home away from home in the garage.

6 - T39 3012LF
4 - OT12 2512
1 - T24
1 - SLA Pro
2 - XF210


"A system with a few knobs set up by someone who knows what they are doing is always better than one with a lot of knobs set up by someone who doesn't."

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Re: First Build : Plywood Sourcing Challenges

#48 Post by Mr T »

Bruce Weldy wrote: Wed Jan 28, 2026 8:09 pm
Bill Fitzmaurice wrote: Wed Jan 28, 2026 4:55 pm Get one or two of these: https://www.harborfreight.com/250-lb-ca ... 1901739435
Or just build you one of these.... :mrgreen:

Workbench5 10-03.jpg

Probably the best thing I've ever built. Same height as my table saw, so it serves as an out feed when I need it. But, mostly - it's where I've built hundreds of cables, read the mail, etc. It's my home away from home in the garage.


Crazy how many uses they end up filling- but it is a another project before the sub build for him! Now, making one while listening to teeth rattling bass? well that's just fine....

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Re: First Build : Plywood Sourcing Challenges

#49 Post by Bruce Weldy »

Mr T wrote: Thu Jan 29, 2026 8:38 am


Crazy how many uses they end up filling- but it is a another project before the sub build for him! Now, making one while listening to teeth rattling bass? well that's just fine....
I built it years ago, but even then I wondered why I had taken so long to do it. I can break down big sheets with a circular saw on it or use it as an outfeed for the table saw. I put power at both ends and there's a cutout on one end so that the table saw will butt right up against it. It has a fiberboard removable top that can be flipped or replaced.....something I thought I would have to do at some point, but never have.

My recliner, my office, and my workbench is where you'll find me almost all of my waking moments.

6 - T39 3012LF
4 - OT12 2512
1 - T24
1 - SLA Pro
2 - XF210


"A system with a few knobs set up by someone who knows what they are doing is always better than one with a lot of knobs set up by someone who doesn't."

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