Jimbo's Knife Making Adventure

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

In my old garage workshop, I built a 4'X4' square table like yours. I mounted four tools on the corners - drill press, mini mill, metal band saw, and table top wood bandsaw. Because the were at 90 degrees to each other and on the diagonals, they didn't interfere with each other when cutting or drilling long stock. That put a lot of tool power in a small footprint. The same tools would have taken a whole workbench, and still would not allow long stock to be worked on. I put it on a tool base that could be raised by stepping on the pedal, and could roll it to a corner when not needing the tools. The underside was shelving for tooling storage. Because the shelves were open, I could just roll it to the open garage door and blow the whole bench and shelves clean with the leaf blower. It had a quad socket in the center, with a single power cord I could plug into the wall socket.