There are few upsides to this pandemic, but it has prompted a lot of folks to start woodworking. If you’re one of them, welcome to the club! To support your new hobby, maybe you’ve bought a jobsite table saw like the DeWALT saw shown above. But you’ve probably discovered it’s lightweight, it offers very little support behind the saw table when you’re cutting really long workpieces and it could use a more stable, sure-footed stand.
Well, this mobile workstation can give your new saw the “home base” it deserves. The substantial drawer cabinet on wheels raises your saw to a comfortable 36" working height. Behind the saw there’s a full-size router table on a base you can build with ordinary pocket-screw joinery. The router table serves as a spacious outfeed table for your saw while it also opens up lots of new possibilities for your woodworking pursuits — shaping edges, making joinery, template-routing and more. Best of all, I’ve designed this compact cart to be very easy for a new woodworker to make, and I bet you’ll have fun doing it.
Building the Carcass
We’ll start by building the carcass that houses the drawers. Measure, mark and cut the top and bottom panels to size, according the on page 45. Cut the carcass’s two sides to final size. Their length should match the width of the top and bottom panels. Now cut the divider to size. Note that it is shorter than the side panels by one thickness of
