Building a project with wood. Plan review requested

[Freija]

The prior day's epiphany turned into today's project after another day of running around picking up a few extra bits to the tune of several hundred more dollars.    The problem of what to do with or where to put my new jointer has been solved by a piece of junk I've been meaning to throw out for three years.

I had this old entertainment center or whatever it was I scavenged off the street 10 years ago and modified by cutting off the top part. At my old house, I used this to support a desk extension I made so it was mostly hidden and I had CDs and DVDs stored in the two ends that open up. When I moved I should have thrown it out but thought it might come in handy for something one day and today was that day!

It had a glass door covering the opening that I removed and stashed away for some future crazy project. Drilled a few holes and bolted my jointer to it and it is perfect.



Almost perfect.

It is really heavy and I'd rather not store it outside so I came up with a plan make it mobile but the problem was if just bolted wheels to the bottom, that would make it a little high to work with and potentially unstable so I made a little dolly for it and a ramp to get it up over the threshold and into the house.



Tip up one end, slide the dolly under and away it went! I gave myself a pat on the back and told myself how clever I was! 



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The jointer and my table saw with my cross-cut sled now are the same height and also the same height as two benches so I have some end support for cutting the long boards. Those 8 footers are still a bit unwieldy so clamped a little piece of corner molding to my sled and used a bigger clamp (not shown) to keep the piece being cut against the square edge and it worked great.



I'm actually ready to get started but fear I won't get very far until middle of next week. I'm sim-racing with my league from noon to 2:30 on Saturday and is supposed to rain Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Wah!

Actually, I'm racing Saturday, Monday and Wednesday at noon, Thursday night from 7:30 until 10:00 and Sunday from 6:00 to 8:00 and I practice 1 to 2 hours for each event so it takes up a lot of time but I told myself I wasn't going to ditch one hobby for another so my sleeping pod with storage shelves comes second.