5B45B83D-F0B4-4475-AEFA-5B4F80D6A92D.jpgHey guys and girls! This is kind of a multipart thread so I apologize for the jumping around. I’m trying to reorganize my space and make some big decisions as far tools (upgrades and downgrades) and dust collection. I have a small oversized one car garage shop that I’m trying to reorganize to be more efficient and I want to add a nice plumbed dust collection system (either clearvue cv1800 or Oneida super dust gorilla). I have a dust right 1250 1 stage and it doesn’t provide enough suction for the jointer plus it’s not the cleanest or most efficient. Right now I have a sawstop contractor saw with 36” rails and it takes up a ton of space. Right now all my tools are on wheels but I’d love to have a layout that would work a little better and more efficient. My shop is 13’3” wide by 25’ deep. I did a quick layout on graph paper and I think that would work, but I’m contemplating something huge, and that might be getting rid of my table saw and just using my bandsaw OR getting a smaller table saw OR cutting the rails down on the sawstop to fit my needs. I generally use my table saw for essentially 4 squaring stock and most of joinery I do by hand unless I have a huge amount of tenons or something I need to cut. Occasionally I’ll use it for dadoes but I usually do them by hand or with a router. I just keep thinking to myself that it seems silly to have a 36” rip capacity table saw taking up a huge chunk of my shop when I rarely rip much more than 12”-15” wide. I feel like if I had to rip wider than that, I would just grab my festool track saw. Or Possibly then just use my bandsaw for ripping down stock and then a quick pass on the jointer. I have a portable dewalt table saw I could use IF and when I needed to rip down a bunch of stock quickly in a pinch. Am I crazy for considering selling my table saw in sake of space? As far as the other tools I have:
Grizzly 0555x bandsaw, grizzly 12” jointer with helical head, dewalt 735 planer with shelix cutter head, Bosch glide miter saw, shop fox standing drill press, my workbench. I’ll attach a pic of the layout I came up with on graph paper shortly as soon as I figure out how to attach pics from my phone