Table Saw for furniture & cabinet making

**david.elliott** · 23rd March 2017, 10:51 AM

It's all over now, but here in the west I organised and installed about 6 kitchens using the Masters flatpacks... for the exercise I looked the 450 wide pantry. Buying the melamine, cutting up, drilling all those holes that need to line up, and getting the feet proved to be just $15 cheaper than just driving down and picking one up...I would fax down the order, the customer would pay and then I'd go down and it would all be ready to collect...gold.

For personalisation I would buy the next size up and trim to suit...and construct fancy rangehood covers and shelving, in the American country style...and make timber benctops and doorsIMG_20140824_185317.jpg

The Masters flatpacks were from Haefele in SA. Here in WA one Mitre10/Home Hardware(?) is stocking a few popular sizes and sourcing the rest on order...I have bought some from them as well...

I did have the misfortune to assist a friends friend by installing a Bunnings kitchen. What a pile of crap...

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**Midnight Man** · 23rd March 2017, 07:38 PM

Hi David, and thanks for your post!

I have heard the same about Bunnings kitchens, and actually also the Ikea stuff. And it is because this kitchen is one we will never want to replace that I'm going on the adventure of making it myself - I figure no-one else will care as much as I do about the quality of the end result.

Masters, I had heard, were good with their kitchen stuff, sadly, we're a little too late to avail ourselves of that

So, over the next few weeks, I shall be working on finishing the workshop setup, and assembling some more tools to get going on this project

Sadly, forumgoers - please expect more questions >.< <grin>

**jms_8087** · 23rd March 2017, 10:24 PM

I just sold my Harvey HW110LGE-30 table saw and upgraded to a SawStop professional cabinet saw, the reason I upgraded was because i took a nice chunk from the tip of my finger off using a Dado Blade.

The Harvey was a really nice saw I have no complaints with it apart from the fact it doesn't have the safety feature on it! The saw stop on the other hand apart from its obvious safety feature is a really nice saw in hindsight I should have got one from the start; although its more expensive than the harvey in my opinion its well worth it.

**ian** · 25th March 2017, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by Midnight Man

I'm thinking of a stand alone router table (say INCRA Free Standing Router Table Tops with INCRA LS Positioner Super System - add a Balledonia router table lift here: https://www.timbecon.com.au/routing/...mounting-plate and then add a Triton TRA001). I had looked into this some time ago, and found that getting a 240V router to suit the Incra router lift over here was - well, in a nutshell, tricky.

I think the above system should allow the finishing work required on the panels on the various pieces I'll be working on? Or are there wiser choices here too?

That would seem a substantial investment in a router system.

I'm not sure from your posts what tasks you have in mind for the router, but in my experience, the 700W Makita and Bosch trimmers are more than adequate for trimming laminate and the like flush to a board's face or edge. Not being familiar with the INCRA positoner, I can't comment on how useful it would be in terms of drilling shelf pin holes and other 32 mm system holes.

**blackjaffa** · 25th March 2017, 03:25 PM

Kregg router table is half the cost of the incra, your paying more for extra features. If moneys not a problem go incra. If your not using those extra features is it necessary?

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