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After months of skirting a pile of cuttoffs and stock leaning against the wall, I decided I need to organize it, but don't have alot of room for any large storage in my garage-shop. Saw an appealing design in Shop Notes, #99, for a mobile lumber cart that also incorporate a sheet cutting "system" for those times when you need to cut down sheet stock.
Instead of using the birch ply shown in the SN article, I took the economy route, and used OSB (consumes 3 sheets). Pretty much followed their plans for the rest, except minor design "improvements" here and there.
This thing turned out a lot beefier than I expected - and larger. There's a small sheet storage area in the front (I added the lower bin area for long cutoffs), upper shelving, and a larger sheet bin area in the back; the rails for the sheet cutting "system" have a lag-screw near each end that hook onto the slotted aluminum rests fastened to the sides.
Materials, all told, ran about $70. Assembled as shown in plans as butt joints with plenty of glue, but instead of screws, used my HF framing nailer - tricky, but worked OK.
Thanks for looking.
Instead of using the birch ply shown in the SN article, I took the economy route, and used OSB (consumes 3 sheets). Pretty much followed their plans for the rest, except minor design "improvements" here and there.
This thing turned out a lot beefier than I expected - and larger. There's a small sheet storage area in the front (I added the lower bin area for long cutoffs), upper shelving, and a larger sheet bin area in the back; the rails for the sheet cutting "system" have a lag-screw near each end that hook onto the slotted aluminum rests fastened to the sides.
Materials, all told, ran about $70. Assembled as shown in plans as butt joints with plenty of glue, but instead of screws, used my HF framing nailer - tricky, but worked OK.
Thanks for looking.
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