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Decided to replace my old radial arm saw with a Festool Kapex 120, which meant tearing out and moving the old radial arm setup and building a replacement stand for the new mitersaw. After searching the forums and Pintrest I took bits and pieces from different stands I saw and came up with this...

A bubinga and maple trivet set made as a gift for a social media supporter. The trivets are 6" square in contained in a mitered caddy. My Festool Kapex and 4mm Dominoes made quick work of this project. It was all finished off with a 220 grit sand and some mineral oil...

In remodeling my shop, I was able to pick up some Mahogany cutoffs for a very good price. I was building this miter cart at the moment and figured, why not? Made an 8/4 top with 4/4 drawer fronts to contrast the 8/4 maple paneled frame, and threw it all on 3" casters. Even made a cutout on...

To keep the loss of cutting capacity to a minimum, I use a thinner plywood board (1/8"?) for the sacrificial fence. Instead of screwing (and filing the screw heads flat), I went with the double-faced tape that's much stronger than the carpet tape...

Gary Katz has shown two methods to check and set a mitre saw for square cuts: Two-cut calibration I used the four-cut method: The first pic shows the cuts made to get the square and mitre (right & left) settings tuned. It took me well over an hour to get them right! The last two pictures...

The best way to make three-way mitre joints is to use a mitre saw and a Domino joiner. If you have tried the joint with a tablesaw and a shop-made routing jig, you know how slow and unreliable the method is. You can cut the double mitres first, the Domino joiner will cut a mortise perpendicular...

The optional factory mobile cart (900 mm high) does not suit me as when the saw is mounted on it, the saw handle is a little too high for my comfort. Instead of building a mobile cart from scratch, I came up with the idea of converting an old filing cabinet into a mobile saw station. That saved...

For the past several years I have been making scroll saw ornaments to give to family and friends at Christmas time. Last year a friend of ours who runs a local donation closet was putting together Christmas care packages for local children who weren't gonna receive much gift wise. I quickly...

This is a little redundant because this is featured in my workshop post, but I wanted to get it out there as a project to allow others to find it and give some design ideas because I relied so much on the projects posted of miter stations for this design. Many were from lumberjacks and I thank...

This started as a Christmas gift for my Dad… last year. Then it was going to be a birthday gift, a Father's day gift, an anniversary gift, etc. I just kept putting it off because I wasn't feeling it, and I just didn't have the right piece of wood. Fast forward to about 2 months ago. My buddy's...