Assembly Tables - Your Best Mods

[Roland Chung]

I just finished (almost) my DJM / WoodWhisperer / Alan in Little Washington style assembly table. Because I was worried about the wax on the hardboard adversly affecting my waterbased finishes, I used double sided Maple Melamine as the replaceable top sheet.

I followed multiple sets of instructions and found that it wasn't really as hard as I thought that it would be. One technique that I tried and liked was Alan's jig for dadoing the cross pieces.

1) Now that it is just too late, I wish that I had followed another suggestion to insert blocks of mdf into a some of the hollows in order to help support a vise.

2) Another suggestion that I neglected to do was block some of the hollows to make the dog holes stronger - if I added the vise.

3) I want to install T Tracks on the face of the sides in order to attach accessories and fences.

4) I want to be able to temporarily attach the Kreg tracks to gain the pocket screwing capability.

If anyone has pics of any of these ideas or any other mods - please share. At least I can use this one to help make the next generation.

[Roland Chung]

Here are a few more pics of the assembly table in progress.

[Alan Schaffter]

Looking good!!!!! Thanks for the nice words and for including me in the same list as DJM!!!

Are you going to try my adjustable legs?

Alan in Little Washington

[Todd Bin]

Can you post the link to Alan's thread about the dado idea for the internal supports.

Thanks,

Todd

[Jim Becker]

Alan...those legs are awesome. I'm a believer in adjustable height ofr assembly work and that's a great accomodation!

[Alan Schaffter]

Can you post the link to Alan's thread about the dado idea for the internal supports.

Thanks,

Todd

Here is the link to the finished table thread. At the end of the first paragraph is the link to the first thread on the construction.