4 cutting sheet goods on budget

In this video I want to show you how you can use a small portable benchtop table

saw to do all the cutting of sheet goods you need for any size of kitchen you're

building. This is the way I got started cabinet making and I can tell you that

it works very well. So imagine you've got your benchtop saw. It's plenty powerful

for anything that you're going to have to cut for this project but the top surface is just way too small to cut 4x8 sheets accurately. The solution to

this problem is to take a 4x8 sheet of 3 quarter inch thick plywood, cut a

corner out that matches the size of your benchtop table saw, and then turn the

plywood into one big table. You don't need fancy plywood for this. Sheathing

grade works fine. You could use particle board but it's heavy and it's not all

that resilient and with this design you can take the whole outfeed table apart

and reuse it for other projects later. The best approach for the legs that I've

found is to simply take some more of that 3 quarter inch ply and make it into

L-shaped leg assemblies. So four or five inches on each side it doesn't really

matter. Screwed together in the corner and then placed underneath the table to

support it. Use more 3 quarter inch ply to create skirts that connect the legs

with each other and also similar L-shaped supports between the legs. You'll

need at least one intermediate support between the legs at both ends of an 8

foot long table. Here's a top view of what I'm talking about. Two pieces of

3 quarter inch ply joined in the corner to form an L-shaped assembly. 2 inch deck

screws work well to hold this together. More 3 quarter ply forms the skirts

that fasten to the face of the L-shaped legs. More 2 inch deck screws driven down

through the top into the top edge of the skirt and you're pretty well done. The

only other thing you need to do is to add legs and skirts on each side of

where the table saw goes so you can simply push the saw in or pull it out

independently of the outfeed table. As I mentioned before, don't use glue to

assemble this outfeed table if you think you might want to take it apart and use

the wood for other projects elsewhere