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floating workbench it's not really floating the miter saw station let's just get into it
scott brown here i've always wanted to have a permanent setup for my festool
drop saw and i haven't done it up until now because i never had a place to put it
now that we bought this house and it has a double garage i have a place to put it but
having said that the main focus is this house so i don't want to spend too much effort on my
drops or stand so in today's exciting episode i'm going to build a minimal drop saw stand
that's functional but simple and it's going to look like this
so really simple really really simple and the first step let's get some materials
i'm just getting regular materials from a regular hardware store
and this is my first time at this one better put a mask on
the timber is pink because it's treated and it's very difficult to get timber new zealand
that isn't treated um any structural framing type timber is usually pink
or green pink stuff is the lowest possible that you can use in a house and i'm using
it for a workbench so i don't need treated timber but unfortunately i got no choice
tell margaret i bought my worm farm
good job
so one of the main things that i want to do with this garage is lighten it up a bit it's obviously
very dark especially on days like this um so jess and i have been painting these walls here
so i figured before i put the bench in here to be easier to put the paint on now
how's it going it just it's gone awfully uh it's awfully white in here
it is good nice reflective surface good for filming
absolutely so are you enjoying being my first apprentice
you have very high standards
but i can call you a dick and vice versa and then we can hug it out which probably isn't appropriate
for a regular apprentice
all right this is the kpx the festool kpx so i need to make a bench obviously deeper than this
one but i need to make a bench wide enough and also have it come in at the right points for all
this handle angle stuff to work anyway i'm gonna figure this out and uh i'll show you as i build it
so
the main reason i want to set all this up is so it's very easy to build things in here
and because i haven't set it up yet i'm finding it hard to build this i don't know where anything
is i'm sort of scrambling around for things as i've been planning this garage i've been thinking
about um when i used to work as an apprentice and the company i used to work for was quite
they did quite big jobs it was like 30 builders on the company and they did a
lot of commercial jobs like shopping malls towers and because we'd better drive for at least a year
we'd always set up a big smoker room and a big toolbox area and even a kitchen would
put a whole kitchen as a temporary measure and i remember when i first started thinking
man that's crazy that these guys are setting up toolboxes kitchen bench plumbing a sync up
and we're all just gonna rip it down again because you know there's a job site
but then inevitably i saw the value in that i'd be on on the train in the morning on the way to work
knowing that there was a coffee machine a pool table my toolbox all set up at the job when i got
to the job all i had to do was go upstairs grab my tool belt from the toolbox grab my coffee from
the coffee machine and start working and i bet the boss saved a lot of time and sit up and tear down
so the same mentality is going to be applied here all i have to do is walk in
put a switch on and i can start cutting
930 to the base of the drop saw
so
good
meanwhile
meanwhile just trying to try to start a small worm prison what are you doing
putting the wormies to ransom so they can make me fertilize it we've been living in an apartment so
we haven't had space to set up a workshop and we also haven't had space to set up compost that's
just not compost thank you for letting them know apparently the worms eat your food and then they
pee and you use the worm pea for the garden and then they also make i guess like compost
i don't really understand what that does but it's something to do with um making my worms happy
it's expanding like crazy anyone's got any worm farm tips put them in the comments below
we have a couple of um pieces of plywood here sorry i just woke up the plywood's
going to form the structure that holds the drop saw and the whole idea is that
drop saw is a level with the platform that we built yesterday this is all still loose
so we can get it just right
so if you look over here this angle goes a lot further but i can't quite get there
because over here the back of the saw is hidden the framing is back here so we've got room to cut
because it can go more in this direction it also means it can come more in this direction
so this needs to be cut back
uh
i just screwed all that off this is this is kind of what i visualize you know i'm happy i'm happy
about this i didn't want cupboards underneath this is a limited space and i didn't want to fill
it with more stuff i might live to regret that but we'll see so i've just plugged all this in
temporarily i'm gonna need to do something about this just got a hole that i drilled there but um
when you pull on this it kind of gets snagged down there but it's in a good location for
straight cuts and angled cuts doesn't get in the way at all very excited let's do the maiden cut
so this is the first step in my little trifecta
drop saw here table saw here and work bench over here i was standing here when i said that last
part so you go over here oh i need some timber chop chop chop oh now i need to rip that timber
cut it over here on the table saw that's going to be here oh i need to um clamp the timber and
router it or something then you bring it over here and you clamp and route it
my point is it's permanently set up and it all connects to one another
and then i'm going to devote the other half of the garage to materials all of it is in service
for the house that we're going to renovate which we're still working on we're talking to architects
it's going well but one thing i was going to ask you actually heating i need some advice
so this right here is the only source of heat in the house and the crazy thing about it is we
can't use it but that's a whole other episode we'll talk about that later my question is
what would you heat your house with heat pump ducted heat pump ventilation plus a heat pump
we're leaning towards a heat pump we don't want to do anything that needs gas or anything like that
anyway your advice would be great um firewood is annoying too so trying to avoid that but
anyway either way we're keen to get it sorted before the south island winter
see you in the next exciting episode