Miter Saw Stand: The Project Continues

I finished the stand part of my miter saw stand at Thanks Giving 2014, which was really nice. I can throw an 8 foot board on there to cut and I don't have to do any fancy work to support the boards.   I just put it up there and cut.

I had always intended to put some sort of tool/building material storage in the space inside of the frame and since I finally finished the trains project, I decided to take a stab at putting drawers in. There was an amazing amount of pre planning that went into it.  I worked on it every afternoon this week and still was not able to complete the project; but I wanted to show my progress.

I built the first two drawers in a couple of afternoons with plywood I already had.

The next step was to screw the rails on for the lower drawers. This was extremely difficult because I had to figure out how to get the rails on so they would be even, and so they would be at 90 degrees to the front of the frame.  I had to cut several shims to get ones the exact right size so they would be square.

This is my progress after the first day of cutting plywood.  The big stack of squares is the drawer bottoms.  I learned several things while cutting the big 4' X 8' pieces of plywood. The biggest being that I can't cut a sheet that large and have it be good clean cuts.

Joel wanted to be in a picture as well

This is all the wood for the 8 drawers except for 1 piece that got ruined by a mistake.  This is about a sheet and three quarters of plywood all cut up into smaller boards and it was quite massive.

These are two of the shorter drawers getting glued up.  I only have enough clamps to do two drawers at once.

Today I woke up early and glued up another pair of drawers. Then at 2:30 I glued up another pair. And then finally at 9:30 when the kids were watching TV I glued up the last pair. Tomorrow afternoon I should be able to start work on the faces.  I'm in the home stretch which is pretty exciting.