30 - How to Build a Tablesaw Outfeed Table

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A few weeks ago, I added the Incra TSIII Fence System to my tablesaw. Unfortunately, my old outfeed table didn't really work with the new system. So its time to build a new one. This isn't your average outfeed table though. Its a full-size work table with a full shelf of storage. Perhaps the best part of all is the fact that it can be made with a modest collection of tools and just a few sheets of plywood. No fancy joinery here! This is what I like to call, a "Can Do" project. Enjoy!
For those who are interested, here are some exact dimensions for you:
Long Stretchers: 62"
Short Stretchers: 38"
Overall Dimensions: 65" L x 39 1/2" D x 33 3/4"H
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[@rodswoodworking7151]

Stating your considerations was very helpful. Way more useful than just offering a cookie cutter plan. Thanks!

[@woodwhisperer]

Because a basic table like this makes a great utility/assembly table as well. I just happen to use the design as an outfeed table.

[@lowrider9367]

Thanks for your vids. You break things down so simple. Please keep em coming.

[@bobbailey1288]

I like the way you go into detail about your thought process

[@miriambelanger7292]

Marc, you are a great teacher and video demonstrator. Your out feed table is beautiful and practical.

[@jeff5694]

Thank you so much for this video. I'm just getting started in working and was finding that I needed an outfeed table and I also needed an assembly table to get myself off the ground. I made a 4x4 table with this design and couldn't be happier. you made this so easy to follow.

[@AwesomeRedKite]

Thanks for including other options for tools and joinery methods that you can use on these projects!...I've been watching for a while and sometimes on other videos I'm like I'll never have one of those so now what. Its a great addition and much appreciated!

[@mrsverdin10]

I've had the chance to use this table a couple of times now. It's fun to whip out in front of people:) I can see what people are talking about when they say the legs are delicate, but they're design to support a "mostly" vertical load, not be torqued from the side or pushed back into place. If you just let the table open or close on it's own and don't force anything, it works great kzbin.infoUgkxyFZUPFEey-PuqsPMxqaykBhgA1LWxFHh Once it's set up, it's pretty solid. My only gripe would probably be related to the clamps provided. They're not the highest quality. They do the job, so no big deal, but they could be better. All in all, pretty cool gadget.

[@LiloUkulele]

Simple, efficient, cost effective...well done!

[@stanhafers2462]

I have been watching shop vids for years, it is so nice to see some one using the incra fence system. I was beginning to think that I was the only one they sold it too, although yours was properly a lot cheaper then mine. A great tool doing a great job.

[@marvinboswell6889]

This same style of construction with casters makes great roll around carts and are unbelievably strong. I built 4 of them about 20 years ago to use in a company operation and all are still going strong ,used just B C plywood and painted them

[@janmankidiaz9676]

First time I watched one of your videos, thank you so much for the clarity and simple directions. Hope to build a smaller version in the near future.

[@woodwhisperer]

You're very welcome Jan! Thanks for the nice comment

[@johnburdock4797]

Very nice and I like that it's simple but sturdy. Thanks for the ideas!

[@FukMePinkAndCallMeRo]

Good video. I liked the inclusion of your thought process, showing how a woodworker goes from concept to finish. Sometimes we can over think things when trying to achieve/make something and the insights/tips that you guys explain often take away some of the mental clutter that grows around us when we're a little green. Experience and all that, I suppose. Thanks.

[@001pmats]

Looking into starting woodworking (for kitchen cabs and hobby as well). I dig the ideas that you share on your channel. Thanks for sharing them!

[@robertromo4816]

First time to watch what you do, I must say "VERY GOOD" thanks.

[@mikedavidson7470]

I've been needing an outfeed table and I think I'm going this way. I was going to make one with all these drawers but this looks much simpler and cheaper and quicker, Thanks! Sometimes simpler is better!!

[@pteddie6965]

What a great design and easy to follow directions, Marc. I've just purchased a new Delta saw and soon I will make this out feed table and I can't wait to get started.

[@g00dberger]

what an awesome clamp collection you have. Thanks for the tips on the table too.

[@TheTigero]

Half way through and I had to pause to say this: your shop is absolutely gorgeous! It looks so amazingly we'll organized and clean... I really want this exact shop!

[@donmccall515]

Kevin Klika just

[@mxrider525TC]

Excellent video, this is the first one I’ve watched. Look forward to seeing more. Thank you for the very clear and detailed step by step explanation. also the tips and tricks I found to be very helpful. definitely picked up a few things

[@yota4004]

I just built one of these after watching this vid. I made a few changes, I put the legs to the inside of the stretchers and let the plywood hang over 2" on the table saw side to cover the gap and make it fit tight to the saw table. and I painted it to match my PM2000, including the black pinstriping. thanks for the idea!

[@timothymbess]

Thumbs up for KZbin recommending this to me in 2019.

[@AngieWilliamsDesigns]

Nice table. Simple and easy. I was wondering why I had never seen it before and could tell it was older. Thanks for sharing it. A very nice looking table.

[@MrDstapleton77]

Thank you so much, this video is very detailed and well put together. I cant wait to make it.

[@TheARassassin]

I've watched a lot of your videos and have to say that this is one of the best. if you want to make videos for the everyday guy, this is the way to go. make more videos like this!!!

[@pteddie6965]

You're right, Pitt. I watch all of Marc's videos, but I love it when Marc makes videos that us 'regular guys' can do. Of course, most of us don't have the tools or the budget that Marc does.

[@tyashaev]

I really like how you explain everything and really know how to teach. Definitely a subscriber now!!

[@HonestDoubter]

I have watched the original New Yankee Workshop video - and this one I like a little more. Love both and will make it more my size. Thanks again for your show. I learn a ton.

[@matthewphelps5136]

Nice build. Seeing all your shop tools turns my stomach, and then i turn green. (with envy)

[@fellovercliff4525]

Simple but effective'' great vid, cheers! I'm in the middle of setting up my own woodworking man cave and your vids are a great help, thanks!

[@bounphommarath1810]

Nice table that is very easy and cheap to make. Nice job on the video too. Very clear and easy to follow.

[@billbryan1390]

Great job on the presentation I watch alot of you tube video and yours are the ones I enjoy the most and I am going to build my oufeed table using your methods as a guide love that you give reasons for your methods Thank you for an easy to watch video !

[@pashashayan]

you the best man, thank you so much for posting videos

[@synergyck]

Lol, "build an outfeed table for a table saw".... 8:30 is priceless!!!

[@shawngriffith2280]

i cant go 10 minutes without stumbling on one of your videos...and they out class most others. Thanks.

[@stevereinker4474]

Love this and making my own now.

[@VirginiaWolf88]

Inspiring! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!!

[@doubledarefan]

Those strips added to make it look better also adds strength/stiffness to the table top.

[@brentdhedrick]

There is more money in clamps on your wall than there is in my entire shop lol. Good video Bud.

[@TomKaren94]

15:30 to more easily install the cross support, simply tack small strips on the top of the support that extend beyond the ends and "hang" it in place until you connect it to the structure with pocket screws.

[@IntimateGamer]

Great tutorial as usual. I built something very similar recently using a butchers block for the table top.

[@MohammadWassef]

great simple table , thanks a lot

[@inderjeetrrrana3191]

You are very good teacher pal. Rana

[@howardrickert2558]

Great videos Mark. Thanks

[@j4god1980]

Nice project. Love the t-shirt. Big fan.

[@brunovanhaudenhuyse7127]

Marc, I've been watching your videos, 2-3 a day, and I really want to thank you for your effort and clear explanation. I changed careers 3 years ago, still working at becoming a real pro woodworker though it is already my main source of income. I've picked up several ideas and I see my work improving already. You've got another fan across the ocean, my man :)

[@michaelreyes3653]

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[@buckeyeboi2010]

You are the man...great video.

[@89wheatthin]

Quick tip, if you installed your long stretchers first, then your short stretchers and your dividers would be the exact same length so you could just cut them all the same time. Then you would save time and not have to measure later. Great videos, always learn something when I watch.

[@mayorsnorkum4005]

I'm just about to build the table, and was just realizing this! (about the time that I realized that I don't think he mentions that the long stretchers must be cut 1.5" shorter than the length of the table top). It's still a great video. I'm jealous of his great wall of clamps ;)

[@TheRestless48]

LOVE YOUR VIDEO MARC! someday i will make some table like u did on this video!

[@ecaff9515]

Excellent video and project. keep up the good work. good luck...

[@grbroussard]

Not only your videos are awesome but your definitely the cool T-Shirt dude!

[@paulprice]

Kind of a funny point that it's a video about making an out feed table for a table saw and Marc still shows you how to cut the plywood if you don't have a table saw. 😂

[@woodwhisperer]

I do still have my drums and no I don't practice much. :) As for the intro music, we like to occasionally change things around to keep things fresh. But we've been using the same music for years now.

[@epiryx]

Built this last weekend. Only mods were didn't glue in the top (it pretty much sits flat anyhow, and will make easy to scrap and replace later) and used 12" wide 3/4" MDF planks for the bottom. Gunstock stain and 3 coats of poly and it almost looks too pretty to scrape up with use. Thanks for the video - passed it along to a buddy who wanted the plans for it.

[@douglasnogueiradecarvalho9864]

Very good. It´s simple

[@TheNottonight]

I made mine work bench just like your out feed table thanks for the idea

[@MrWSM1]

Awesome build! Thank you for the free plans. BTW, I purchased your miter saw and flip top tool stand plans too. Looking forward to making some saw dust!

[@BARCLYFARMSTED]

I liked the table great simple good looking

[@wb5mgr]

I very much like this design. Inexpensive (relatively) and easy to construct. I am looking currently to build an out feed table and my one mod would probably be to also run a brace laterally between your center brace and the ends to brace the center. That would only take two more small strips of plywood to do.

[@1984Sawyer]

The shelf stretcher next to the saw could borrow a term from structural engineering - “upturned beam”. If the stretcher by the saw was installed above the shelf with the shelf “hanging” from the stretcher, you could mount the shelf lower and gain that volume for storage on the shelf.

[@perrych2012]

When fitting the top Marc says "I just got lucky..." No - he is a very good woodworker: measure accurately, cut accurately and it's job done!!!!

[@WilliamSmith-gq4nu]

Great simple design. Low fuss.

[@geoffroberts4342]

Don't we all miss Norm!, thanks Marc.

[@DarkCarmack]

I found this funny but your shirt changes from your intro to your normal video.......O.o magic

[@joshw490]

The amount of wood clamps in a woodshop is never too damn high!

[@keithwilliamson236]

Love it!

[@HappyDoesYoutube]

Lol... all you need is a drill and a circular saw... . . . . And wood glue, pipe clamps, a biscuit cutter, a 4ft straight edge, a bradley nailer, an air compressor...lol. just busting your balls, this was a great video, can't wait to make one!

[@fredcasta6152]

thanks great job on the video

[@YUBUGGINME4]

Hey Mark, nice video. I especially like when you cut the wood and don't give your father inlaw a dust mask. Haha take care and keep it up!

[@TPstrongman]

Hahaha, my thought was he probably refused... old school haha. I was expecting a comedic pop up or narrative hahaha

[@williamberger2178]

I was suprised you didn't Add a chamfer or round over for the leading edge, just in case your work were to dip a little so as not to get stopped by the table.

[@imadsaid5401]

very nice, and great i really like it

[@UsernameFECKLE]

I actually built my workbench/table to be my out feed table, since I have very limited space (1/2 of a 2 car garage) and have only been doing this sort of thing for about 5 months. Made it somewhere around 1/32 - 1/16 of an inch shorter than my table saw, which, if I remember off the top of my head, is 34 inches to the surface. There is a house construction project next door to me right now, and we asked the contractor if I could collect waste materials from their dumpster (of course he said yes, since every pound I take out is money they don't have to spend at the dump), and I was able to get the equivalent of about 6 full 2x4s out of the dumpster. We had a couple scrap pieces of 3/4 inch underfloor board, which is essentially (or may actually be) super heavy MDF. So, I used the 2x4s to make legs and runners, and used the underfloor board for a table top and a shelf a little more than halfway down the table. Legs are made from face-jointed 2x4s, runners are just single sections of 2x4. Connected legs to top with glue and screws that I "pocket holed" into the 2x4s manually. Has stood up pretty well so far. Could be a little more stable, but I didn't expect perfection out of the materials I used.

[@allanchin5077]

J.

[@2beesbuzzin850]

built this and its awsome

[@walterrider1612]

thank you

[@89wheatthin]

Also, when installing your dividers, I used a longer excess piece and cut two notches that would slide over the long stretchers about an inch or so. This holds the stretchers exactly where you want it and you get a snug fit. Then you can cut the ends off of the excess piece just on the inside of the notches and you have another divider if need be. Once I got the middle one in, I didn't need anything to hold it together for the next 2. 3 was probably over kill though

[@dinaen1]

Awesome video and project, your shop looks amazingly clean! I was looking around your shop as the video was rolling along and…HOLY CLAMPS BATMAN!!! Looks like you have more money in clamps than I do in my whole shop?!?!? Is that 20 Bessey Parallel Bar Clamps? Wicked!

[@AccuracySpeaks]

Awesome!

[@TimKey2911]

Excellent video. Thank you for sharing. I will be building one of these this week. I really appreciate people like yourself taking the time to pass along woodworking skills so people like me (a newbie to woodworking) can progress forward in the craft.

[@TimKey2911]

Here is a photo of my finished outfeed table. Works very well. goo.gl/photos/BqAr4M1zj2d8QfiB8

[@derekalexander4030]

Nice job Tim. I see you used a full sheet on the bottom shelf, so I guess you did that before putting the top together? Did u make any other changes and what size is yours?

[@woodwhisperer]

Mostly self-taught but I also worked with David Marks for a period of time. Not long enough though! :)

[@woodwhisperer]

I honestly don't recall. I pretty much got the inspiration from a New Yankee Workshop project and probably just followed Norm's lead. I think it's a six/half dozen sort of thing.

[@lennyf1957]

it’s so nice your wife might want to use it as the backyard picnic table

[@legion2k988]

Inrca is my dream goal some day.. that and woodpecker tools..

[@TheTsunamijuan]

I am late to the game i realize for this video. But I am a big fan of using repurposed counter tops, or melamine, or just putting laminate on the outfeed table. It provides a surface that materials glide easily across. One of the shops i worked at over the years had done this. I can never go back after how well that works for outfeed tables. Plus they make great places to draw out stuff for explanations or problem solving. Then easily erased after that.

[@whirled_peas]

Easily get a whole sheet on the bottom. Built a table a few days ago with this exact structure, just put it in diagonally and rotate it into place.

[@tconst1729]

It was a tad pricey, but VERY multi functional,, but i used a $1200 automotive scissor lift and a 4x8 birch laminated on top for an outfeed table,,, I can drop material and make several rips by dropping the "outfeed table". I am able to rip sheet goods by the mile without moving the first cut. I complimented it with a surplus store hand fork lift to feed ($100) so I can raise the material (infeed side) while I drop the outfeed side. Makes ripping plywood a one man operation even if its 100 sheets.

[@scottsnyder9984]

Great project. I built an assembly table in a similar manner. However, over the 3/4" top I laid a sheet of 1/8" masonite. It is cheap to replace and takes a beating.

[@mikejunot6363]

How did you secure the thin masonite to the 3/4" plywood top ? Did you have any problems with waviness?

[@scottsnyder9984]

I used double stick tape actually. It did let loose after a while but I just reapplied it. Since the tape is thin I have had no issues with waviness.

[@TheLkvoice]

this is nicer than my dining room table

[@natureboy4815]

Nice job! I have been looking for an idea/design for a kids play table (trains, cars, legos, etc...) that is easy and possible with my limited tool selection. So, just take your design, lower it to the appropriate height and, perhaps, finish it with stain and clear - They will love it! Thanks much, well done.

[@mattfollett6459]

If you don't have a tablesaw you can use....wait, if you don't have a tablesaw why are you building a tablesaw outfeed table?? lol :]

[@munch15a]

was thinking that

[@brettm1118]

I originally built my work table/outfeed table for my router table. All heights from that were the standard including the eventual stand for my eventual table saw

[@Richard-wk9le]

You might want to anchor it to the table saw to prevent any movement in the middle of a cut which could be a dangerous distraction.

[@ForeverMrZaphaell]

When you said that your policy for finishing workshop furniture is "anything goes" , I thought for a moment that you might use some purple paint "you got a good deal on" ! :D

[@scottmoore765]

"My only concern at this point".... Is that I have a concern with my concern. I sure love this guy! But my only concern at this point is... lol.

[@jimtate5816]

Great idea, better than having the wife hold long pieces coming off the end of the table saw!

[@kseattle79]

Thankyou so much how to make

[@mgeez9641]

Like the legs -- simple

[@Aikidoman06]

I like the table. I would prefer the top surface be total smooth. I dropped my table down a half inch to avoid the need the route guides in the top. I also like a lip edge to clamp to when needed.

[@magissemperdeficiet4259]

Bro ...that table in your shop looks better than some of my house furniture ..LOL ;). great job, and thanks for not trying to sell me products in your videos...

[@PatriotDad]

I'm a few years late to the party but great video!

[@TheHarvey1941]

Marc's ability is second only to David Marks, if not a dead heat!

[@philwell76]

the T-shirt whisperer:)