SonomaProducts.com wrote:
Should close escrow on a forclosure in a few days and need to build
out my 2 car garage shop. Besides pulling in all my machinery and
tools from all the various shops an other locations they currently
live, I need to build a shop table.

I am going for a 4 x 8 flat surface. I'll build storage under it as
needed and I will make sure it is movable. I am thinking of a
derivation of this design. Anyone else have design ideas or input?

Do you really need a continuous 4x8 surface? If not, consider this...

I have a pair of identical tables. Each is 36" high, 12" deep and 48" wide.
They are simply built, four inch tray on bottom (I keep pipe clamps in
them), 4-2x4 legs attached to inside of tray sides and ends with carriage
bolts, 4" rails on all four sides at top of legs (more carriage bolts), ply
attached to rails, laminate on ply, all on casters. The 12" top overhangs
sides and ends by about 1 1/2 inches so I have something to clamp to.

I can put them mano to mano and have either a tabletop 12" x 96" or 24" x
48". I don't often do that, normally have them side by side but separated.
Easy to lay short stuff on it/them or spread them apart a bit for whatever
span I need. Great for clamping halflap joints (among others).

I like them a lot. The only thing I'd change - and I will one day - is to
make them so they could be laid down giving me low tables to use for tall
stuff.

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