I’ll probably never build one of your tables, but I love the videos because I pick up so many tips and good practices from you as I watch. I’m looking forward to watching the rest of this build, as well as seeing what new smart ideas and projects and products you’ll highlight. Thank you for your unique contributions to the woodworking community. Always learning, always improving, never quitting-that’s Ron Paulk!
I built a Paulk work bench from plans I purchased from you about 7 years ago. I use it all the time and it is by far the most important tool in my workshop. Good luck with work station it deserves to be a great success
After building the original Paulk Bench, I can totally agree with avoiding pocket holes on half inch! I will definitely follow that advise on my next Paulk Bench! Thanks for the great content Ron!
Thanks for all your content. I just started my own handyman business and once I got a cargo trailer I started building your cabinets from the ART plans I purchased. I am customizing them to my tool set but I have to say they do take some time to make but boy are they worth it in the end. Can’t say enough about your simple and extremely functional designs. Thank you.
I appreciate you sharing your skill, talent, and experience. I have built several of your plans and they work very well for me. You have enhanced by skill level as well. Thank you.
Love the videos, keep them coming. About to buy total station 2 plans. Bought the smart woodshop plans last year. Just ordered an 8 1/2 x 14 trailer. Modifying the plans to add 4 x 8 plywood storage against the wall behind the tgl. Also making room for 28' extension ladder and our metal break by eliminating the 8' drawer and the bottom row of drawers from db2. We want it all inside, no ladder rack on top.
Totally agree about bushings instead of pattern bits. I've noticed some pattern/bearing bits will gradually make the template grow with repeated use. Bushings are the way to go.
I purchased plans for the original bench and separate mitre stand and could not work without them. Am very interested in the new bench for its compact all in one idea. Keep the videos coming!
Thanks Ron, it's always a pleasure to see what your working on and wish the best for you and your family up there in Washington state. Take care. - Luis (La Mesa, CA)
I think this will be the year I make one of these. Been wanting to for a couple years now. Was going to order the plans last year but never had the time to start/finish the project.
Hey Ron. Love all your videos. Well done and very informative. Please confirm that the PTS2 plans that I previous purchased is the same as the STS in this build series. You’re just changing the name. Thx.
Well I just start a course of cabinet making on Jan 8 2020, it is a year and half long course and I am looking forward to how I can input your project in my future career, I follow you and many other on you tube and it is a pleasure you guys are the cream of the cream and I can not stop to watch .
Gilles Desrosiers hi this is impressive 1,5 year long course for cabinet making! Impressive. Do you do that in US? After this you will be super professional!
The STS (PTS2) is two years old now😎🤙 The PTS for some reason is as popular as the newer version so it is still a current plan and offered on our site.
I’m in the middle of breaking down the plywood on my PTS2/STS and need some help on sizing the depth of the center section cutout on the front of the bench, so that it will fit the bed height of my miter saw (90mm). I found a Festool user group online that had a discussion about the bed height of the Kapex. In the discussion, there was a dimensional diagram that showed the Kapex bed height to be 110mm, however one user commented that his measured 112mm. Another user said that the difference was due to the rubber feet on the bottom of the saw. To add further to my confusion, when I go through the plans to do the assembly stack up, I calculate that components have been sized to account for a saw bed height of 108mm. Two questions: 1) are the plans designed to position the miter saw bed surface 2-4mm proud of the bench top surface? Seems reasonable. 2) should I simply add 20mm to the heights of the center section of the bench front and width of the miter saw supports to achieve the same results with my miter saw? Thanks!
I have the plans cut no where can I find the radius of the holes for from back, cross members. I’d like to know the radius for either finished product or template. I can wing it but I’d like to know for consistency. I can’t subtract side from center point because that isn’t there either. Thank you!
have been looking at this hard. Lots of people trying to make MFT on TH-cam. Most are not going to be accurate. Ron's clearly is. Just watch his smart crosscut video where he pushes the bench dogs through his jig and into the table. There is no way I could measure and drill a line of holes in two separate sheets drilled at different times that are going to line up that perfectly. I have been looking for a way to avoid buying the parf jig because of price. I have a festool track saw and plunge router. If I buy the 32mm track and the router base that indexes to the track, that would set me back about $400 instead of $200 for the parf jig but then I would have the festool set up going forward. OTOH I would be betting that I am correct in thinking that the Festool track would produce similar excellent results. There is a video of a young man doing it but he doesn't demonstrate the accuracy of his results. Finally I can get the Festool accesories today instead of waiting for shipping. I am seeing the merits of using the 32mm system and thinking that it doesn't matter what the hole spacing is but if I use metric I am going the way of the future no matter how long it takes and if we keep fighting it, it will just take longer.
even though i understand that you have 32mm to match your jig and insure the 20mm holes are perpindicular and parallel, if I devise my own way to build a jig to do the same thing, I am not seeing the value of making everything metric. I would be happy if we switched to metric as a country but until we do... I am thinking of redesigning and building mine imperial.
@@TheSmartWoodshop I'd be interested in the pdf plans for Emily's jig, yours looks different from the original video, did you make your own modifications?
could you point me to where you discuss the reason for going to metric? Is it just to match the 32mm system of cabinet building and being able to use your jig for boring the 20mm holes for the hold downs? does it have something to do with actually using the 32mm system so that hinge and drawer guide fitting is easier? I am not seeing why it matters how the hold down holes are spaced. I built the first workbench and like it a lot. I am building the STS for my new dewalt miter saw. and because I moved off and left the base of my old router table.
Like the way you explain how you made your templates. Question for you. Where you found that apron? I use a L.V. one but the saw dust stick to it like a magnet.
I use the Atlas 46 Workshop Apron. I have a link in my Amazon store, but it is showing out of stock currently. If you go to my web site and click on the Atlas photo it will take you to their site and then look for the Workshop Apron. We are an Atlas affiliate so they give us a commission on all sales from our site. thesmartwoodshop.com/rons-store
Hey Ron, I purchased the plans for both the pts2 and the paulk workbench 2 (along with a couple others) will the jigs I make to cut out the side holes and the router insert work for both or are they different on each bench
Great videos. I have a couple of questions. First are you sponsored by Festool? You said you like Festool routers, but every tool I see you use is Festool. Since they are usually at least three times the price of other brand name tools do you think the quality justifies the price? Second- the plywood you generally use does not look like baltic berch, so what type do you recommend for quality and price?
Rick Nelson I am not sponsored by Festool or anyone at this time, but willing.😎 FT is built to be the best and worth every penny. We have many options most infact that are built with price being the #1 consideration when designing them. The plywood is UltraLight from Moreland, but they resently closed down and I have not found a replacement yet.
i built one for my basement ,it's only 2' X 6',and it has a vise as one whole end, and a seperate top, {2' X3' suspended with dowels2" from the other top} that acts as a cross cut rail /track sort of thing i have set up on the other end,,i have a dewalt saw, so the offset is 5",,,i cut a slot in the table top at 2 and 4" from the edge , front to back, and there is a sorta rudder that rides in the slots , attached to my saw, and the edge of the bench acts as my zero line,, a fence at the 2nd set of dog holes in from the back, and a mitre guage, i think from a table saw , from a thrift store that i attached to a dog,,so i can do angles as well, it's way more consistant , and accurate than my 12" sliding mitre saw, and because it's a permanant fixture, it takes up no more space than to hang it on my wall when i'm not cutting,,, originally i had two strips of angle iron as a saw guide but they moved around too much,, i stole the whole set up from at least 5 or 6 different set ups i saw on you tube,, so far the table top hasn't split from the slots , but i'm gonna put a piece of sheet metal to span the underside of the seccond top
2011leoc, did you bother to watch and listen to the video before commenting? Are you familiar with the product? Table saw is instrumental in the Construction of the product and the product is designed to be used in conjunction with a table saw. Check out Ron’s channel and see what it’s about. This guy is talented and innovative and loves to share his knowledge.
It’s a multifunction table incorporating a miter saw stand, router table and table saw entension. If you don’t know what those are for stick with just your table saw. Please watch for fingers because you may lose them without an extension.
I’ll probably never build one of your tables, but I love the videos because I pick up so many tips and good practices from you as I watch. I’m looking forward to watching the rest of this build, as well as seeing what new smart ideas and projects and products you’ll highlight. Thank you for your unique contributions to the woodworking community. Always learning, always improving, never quitting-that’s Ron Paulk!
the build series has begun,!!!!!!!! Thanks for this Ron, I will be watching each one.
I built a Paulk work bench from plans I purchased from you about 7 years ago. I use it all the time and it is by far the most important tool in my workshop. Good luck with work station it deserves to be a great success
It is the bits of experience and advice that keep me coming back. I’ve learned so much from this channel.
Agreed!
Waited all day for this!! Whoop!!
After building the original Paulk Bench, I can totally agree with avoiding pocket holes on half inch! I will definitely follow that advise on my next Paulk Bench! Thanks for the great content Ron!
Thanks Ron, I’ve learned a lot from you over the years and I always enjoy watching you work!
Thanks for all your content. I just started my own handyman business and once I got a cargo trailer I started building your cabinets from the ART plans I purchased. I am customizing them to my tool set but I have to say they do take some time to make but boy are they worth it in the end. Can’t say enough about your simple and extremely functional designs. Thank you.
That crosscut jig looks like exactly what I need.
I had both in the video but misspoke and called Emily's parallel guide a crosscut.
Hi Ron I found that spax screws work really great in 1/2 plywood. I use their exterior grade so it no worries about rust.
I appreciate you sharing your skill, talent, and experience. I have built several of your plans and they work very well for me. You have enhanced by skill level as well. Thank you.
Great video. I built mine with just the plans. This video would definitely have saved me time. Thanks Ron.
Like what I see. Ron keep up the fantastic filming and narrations.
Love the videos, keep them coming. About to buy total station 2 plans. Bought the smart woodshop plans last year. Just ordered an
8 1/2 x 14 trailer. Modifying the plans to add 4 x 8 plywood storage against the wall behind the tgl. Also making room for 28' extension ladder and our metal break by eliminating the 8' drawer and the bottom row of drawers from db2. We want it all inside, no ladder rack on top.
Totally agree about bushings instead of pattern bits. I've noticed some pattern/bearing bits will gradually make the template grow with repeated use. Bushings are the way to go.
I purchased plans for the original bench and separate mitre stand and could not work without them. Am very interested in the new bench for its compact all in one idea. Keep the videos coming!
Ron... enjoyed the video. I like it when you do build videos... thx!
Woo Hoo! Really looking forward to this series
Bought the plans yesterday. Looking forward to building the STS 2.
Great stuff, I’ll watch every one
Love the videos and have built the original Paulk workbench and Paulk desk. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks Ron, it's always a pleasure to see what your working on and wish the best for you and your family up there in Washington state. Take care. - Luis (La Mesa, CA)
I have to say I love watching these videos. I'm always learning something. You can teach an old dog some new tricks and I like it.
I think this will be the year I make one of these. Been wanting to for a couple years now. Was going to order the plans last year but never had the time to start/finish the project.
Very interested in this series. I am moving and will finally have a shop that this system will incorporate nicely in. Thanks for posting.
Hey Paul, You're an inspiration and your work is amazing.
That would be Ron!
Hey Ron. Love all your videos. Well done and very informative. Please confirm that the PTS2 plans that I previous purchased is the same as the STS in this build series. You’re just changing the name. Thx.
Well I just start a course of cabinet making on Jan 8 2020, it is a year and half long course and I am looking forward to how I can input your project in my future career, I follow you and many other on you tube and it is a pleasure you guys are the cream of the cream and I can not stop to watch .
Gilles Desrosiers hi this is impressive 1,5 year long course for cabinet making! Impressive. Do you do that in US? After this you will be super professional!
Lyubomir Velchev Well it is Québec Canada, and also I am 68 years old, and I love the course I am learning a lot.
Hey Rob, disregard my question. Watching the first video again I realized that you answered my question at the beginning.
Amazing! I love your videos. I am building a modified version of your benches now.
Thanks for the videos, Ron! Keep up the good work!
Very inspiring videos! Love your work and ideas
I watch all your videos. Regardless of the topic.
Love the videos, Ron. I will be buying this plan and making the station.
Love all your video. You inspire me to make my own SMART trailer. Thanks and please continu making those great video.
Excellent video!
Cant wait to download these plans, great designs and videos Ron!
Love the Paulk work bench!
I have a set of PTS1 plans, but see that I will need to order the PTS2 now!
The STS (PTS2) is two years old now😎🤙 The PTS for some reason is as popular as the newer version so it is still a current plan and offered on our site.
Always learning from you sir.
Yes keep making your videos there great
I’m in the middle of breaking down the plywood on my PTS2/STS and need some help on sizing the depth of the center section cutout on the front of the bench, so that it will fit the bed height of my miter saw (90mm).
I found a Festool user group online that had a discussion about the bed height of the Kapex. In the discussion, there was a dimensional diagram that showed the Kapex bed height to be 110mm, however one user commented that his measured 112mm. Another user said that the difference was due to the rubber feet on the bottom of the saw. To add further to my confusion, when I go through the plans to do the assembly stack up, I calculate that components have been sized to account for a saw bed height of 108mm.
Two questions: 1) are the plans designed to position the miter saw bed surface 2-4mm proud of the bench top surface? Seems reasonable. 2) should I simply add 20mm to the heights of the center section of the bench front and width of the miter saw supports to achieve the same results with my miter saw?
Thanks!
Great content.
Great Job RON...
I plan to make one sometime soon.
oh ya , i put a sterio in it too , it makes a very good speaker cab as well
Its a great video. Thank!!!
good stuff! like it!
keep the videos coming,
Keep making them their fun
Just got the plans. Hope to do it this year.
I like to write on my templates what bits go with it. Bondo is a quick filler for imperfections that need to fixed in a template.
thanks for sharing that
Thanks Ron.
Make More Vids! ....Make More Vids!!! ( and the crowd went wild!)
I have the plans cut no where can I find the radius of the holes for from back, cross members. I’d like to know the radius for either finished product or template.
I can wing it but I’d like to know for consistency. I can’t subtract side from center point because that isn’t there either. Thank you!
i am planning a mobile woodshop, my question is do you ever work somewhere without electricity? Do you ever use a generator?
Great video
Always helpful!
have been looking at this hard. Lots of people trying to make MFT on TH-cam. Most are not going to be accurate. Ron's clearly is. Just watch his smart crosscut video where he pushes the bench dogs through his jig and into the table. There is no way I could measure and drill a line of holes in two separate sheets drilled at different times that are going to line up that perfectly. I have been looking for a way to avoid buying the parf jig because of price. I have a festool track saw and plunge router. If I buy the 32mm track and the router base that indexes to the track, that would set me back about $400 instead of $200 for the parf jig but then I would have the festool set up going forward. OTOH I would be betting that I am correct in thinking that the Festool track would produce similar excellent results. There is a video of a young man doing it but he doesn't demonstrate the accuracy of his results. Finally I can get the Festool accesories today instead of waiting for shipping.
I am seeing the merits of using the 32mm system and thinking that it doesn't matter what the hole spacing is but if I use metric I am going the way of the future no matter how long it takes and if we keep fighting it, it will just take longer.
even though i understand that you have 32mm to match your jig and insure the 20mm holes are perpindicular and parallel, if I devise my own way to build a jig to do the same thing, I am not seeing the value of making everything metric. I would be happy if we switched to metric as a country but until we do...
I am thinking of redesigning and building mine imperial.
I'm excited for this series!
On a job, do you use your original workbench along with the total station!
I use the Total Station and Compact Bench. I plan on building a new PWB2 at some point.
So, it looks like you're back in the old big shop? Or is this from a year or two ago? How great to have all that space.
You caught me. I built the Total station 2 years ago.
@@TheSmartWoodshop I'd be interested in the pdf plans for Emily's jig, yours looks different from the original video, did you make your own modifications?
@@00Clive00 I added a calibration adjuster but did that in the beginning. This set is the only set I have made as it works and keeps going strong.
Keep watching this video waiting for part 2!
could you point me to where you discuss the reason for going to metric? Is it just to match the 32mm system of cabinet building and being able to use your jig for boring the 20mm holes for the hold downs? does it have something to do with actually using the 32mm system so that hinge and drawer guide fitting is easier? I am not seeing why it matters how the hold down holes are spaced.
I built the first workbench and like it a lot. I am building the STS for my new dewalt miter saw. and because I moved off and left the base of my old router table.
never mind, I found the explanation on the smart crosscut video
Like the way you explain how you made your templates. Question for you. Where you found that apron? I use a L.V. one but the saw dust stick to it like a magnet.
I use the Atlas 46 Workshop Apron. I have a link in my Amazon store, but it is showing out of stock currently. If you go to my web site and click on the Atlas photo it will take you to their site and then look for the Workshop Apron. We are an Atlas affiliate so they give us a commission on all sales from our site. thesmartwoodshop.com/rons-store
@@TheSmartWoodshop Thank you Ron :)
I use Atlas46 shoulder/belt rig and various pouches for my diy work, very nice products
Hey Ron, I purchased the plans for both the pts2 and the paulk workbench 2 (along with a couple others) will the jigs I make to cut out the side holes and the router insert work for both or are they different on each bench
Hole saw size?
Calculated out, I think it’s a 6 1/4” with a 3/4 router bushing with 1/2” bit. 6 1/4 is $70+, going to stick with 6” for ~$40-4
Great videos. I have a couple of questions. First are you sponsored by Festool? You said you like Festool routers, but every tool I see you use is Festool. Since they are usually at least three times the price of other brand name tools do you think the quality justifies the price? Second- the plywood you generally use does not look like baltic berch, so what type do you recommend for quality and price?
Rick Nelson I am not sponsored by Festool or anyone at this time, but willing.😎 FT is built to be the best and worth every penny. We have many options most infact that are built with price being the #1 consideration when designing them. The plywood is UltraLight from Moreland, but they resently closed down and I have not found a replacement yet.
Hallo Ron do you have a link to emeli’s jig?
I will see if I still had the PDF
We love you here in South Georgia
I'd like to see you make a mobile CNC. That would be cool, and I think you could do it if you kept the table small like 2'x3'.
I am already looking to add a CNC LowRider to the bench as it can be assembled/disassembled as quickly as this workbench
i built one for my basement ,it's only 2' X 6',and it has a vise as one whole end, and a seperate top, {2' X3' suspended with dowels2" from the other top} that acts as a cross cut rail /track sort of thing i have set up on the other end,,i have a dewalt saw, so the offset is 5",,,i cut a slot in the table top at 2 and 4" from the edge , front to back, and there is a sorta rudder that rides in the slots , attached to my saw, and the edge of the bench acts as my zero line,, a fence at the 2nd set of dog holes in from the back, and a mitre guage, i think from a table saw , from a thrift store that i attached to a dog,,so i can do angles as well, it's way more consistant , and accurate than my 12" sliding mitre saw, and because it's a permanant fixture, it takes up no more space than to hang it on my wall when i'm not cutting,,, originally i had two strips of angle iron as a saw guide but they moved around too much,, i stole the whole set up from at least 5 or 6 different set ups i saw on you tube,, so far the table top hasn't split from the slots , but i'm gonna put a piece of sheet metal to span the underside of the seccond top
You're a genius
Hey mate are the plans available in metric?
They are metric only no imperial. stores.modularmarket.com/paulk_homes/the-smart-total-station-sts-aka-the-pts2-p14.php
What roundover bit are you using? 1/8,1/4.....?
I use 1/16" most of the time when I want to just soften square edges quickly instead of sanding.
What size hole saw are you using?
152mm (6") Page #4 on the plans
Cool
Is there a link to Emily’s cross cut device somewhere?
th-cam.com/video/NBqPlAjObg8/w-d-xo.html
Crosscut jig? Aren't Emily's jigs rip guides?
Yes, I made that correction in one of the earlier comments.
what size is that hole saw?
6", but a Router template guide and scrap of plywood as a pattern is cheaper and safer
Hey Ron, ur shop too damn big, gonna need more equipment 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Buy a table saw! This is a joke
2011leoc, did you bother to watch and listen to the video before commenting? Are you familiar with the product? Table saw is instrumental in the Construction of the product and the product is designed to be used in conjunction with a table saw.
Check out Ron’s channel and see what it’s about. This guy is talented and innovative and loves to share his knowledge.
It’s a multifunction table incorporating a miter saw stand, router table and table saw entension. If you don’t know what those are for stick with just your table saw. Please watch for fingers because you may lose them without an extension.