Table Saw Cabinet Complete

I finally completed the table saw cabinet. It took a bit longer than I anticipated because real life circumstances dictate that some of my woodworking has to wait until the weekend. Still, after a small delay I completed the cabinet. I still have a bit of future work to do; I plan to build a small drawer which will sit above the blade caddy, a door to cover the blade caddy area, and possibly a couple of doors for the cabinet. I also will eventually add a couple of hooks on one side to hold the folding outfeed holder. However, those will wait for another day because I have some other, better projects in mind.

Blade Caddy Progress

I've been making some progress on the blade caddy. When I left off, the core pieces were cut to size and I had made the dados and rabbets. Rather than letting it float, the center shelf is held in place with a simple mortise and tenon joint. I designed the center shelf this way so that the shelf could double at the top of the blade caddy, as well as finishing off the small box in which I plan to place a drawer. I decided the best way to cut the mortises was to use my router and a 3/4 inch straight cutting bit for the right hand side, and a 3/8 straight cutting bit for the left side. The left side is only half thickness because it also forms the rabbet for left side of the blade caddy. The mortise and tenon joints are 3/8 deep, and setting the proper depth on my router is easy with my cutting depth gauges.

Table Saw Cabinet With Blade Caddy

My current table saw setup is less than efficient, so it's time to update it to provide additional storage and better access to all the accessories. This is a project that I've been meaning to do for a while, and I'm finally getting to it. Right now I'm using an old fiber board book shelf (the super cheap kind you find at big-box stores) to store table saw blades and miscellaneous things. We used it in our first apartment so many years ago, but after we bought our first house and acquired real furniture it found a home in the garage. You can see how crowded and poorly placed it is in the following image:

Fast forward to today. I want to build a dedicated cabinet to store all of my table saw blades, table inserts, arbor wrenches, and any other accessory that fits. The primary function of the cabinet is to serve as a place to store blades, so the design will be built around that. This is an old problem, so I started by looking around the web to see what other people have come up with. Why reinvent the wheel, right?