Well, most of the previous posts are now obsolete thanks to Hurricane Katrina. The stand I built for the table saw and the ultimate tool bench all swelled up worse than a boxer’s eye in the face of 15+ inches of flood water. I have started the layout of a new simple stand made out of dimensional lumber for the saw in SolidWorks. The key in designing it was to only use tools which are “functional”, which means no ripping. So with the chop saw, a router and a band saw I can build this pretty easily.
It looks like this at present:
It’s a great deal lower than my saw was before. For some reason I had built the bench along the back wall of the garage 42″ high (I don’t remember why it’s been 10 years) so I had built all the tools to be near that height, but it was just too high. Everything now is aimed at being 36″ high (which is the height of most of the cabinets I just put in the garage). It seems much more user-friendly than before.