How to build a Table Saw with Simple Tools - Part 1: Blade Lift Mechanism 

Saw your video. Impressive. Do you have plans for building this? Would love to build one since my Craftsman Table Saw has a broken gear that Sears has discontinued and won't replace.

I love the simplicity of the design. And, I thought I was sarcastic... I love it!

Guess I first need to buy a pantorouter... :-D ;-)

that kinda explains why my last glue-ups didnt go so well, i dont own a pantorouter thanx for the tip! Good show

As for a threaded rod vs acme, my 30 years old table saw made in germany Rapid, has threaded rod not acme, and still working perfectly

great build is there a PDF plan with the exact measures? thank you

This is the most simple easy to build lifting mechanism that i found on youtube. The others videos show how to make this is very complicated and require other skill like welding.

Dear Cosmas, do sell the plan of this project?

Thanks for this excellent project and your explanations ! Could it be possible to get some drawings with dimensions ? Thanks in advance ! ;)

Ball bearings are always a good touch. My cheap ancient table saw uses fine pitch threaded rods for movement of one axis and it always gets caked in dust and becomes really stiff. But it doesn't look like yours is exposed in the same way so I think you're is fine. Good video as always.

Hi. nice build. what is the thickness of the plywood you use. and the size of the steel pins. they look so huge on this video.

Hello, I greet you from Iquitos - Peru. Your design is excellent. Do you have plans with design measures? Can you please send them to me or post them?

Good old Cardboard Aided Design. CAD.

Hello Cosmas. Це ГЕНІАЛЬНО ТА ДУЖЕ ПРОСТО, Я ПІДПИСАВСЯ НА ВАС ТА З МЕНЕ ЛАЙК

Hello Cosmas. Safe to say you promoted yourself onto my most admired homemade tablesaw builder with this :D I hope you are still planning onto finishing the series because I am eager to (poorly) attempt to build it. I have one question about this part. I love how you solved the raise/lower mechanism, the sliding bearing block is awesome. my only concern is, is there a good chance of dust/chip getting into the slide and limiting the travel? I was wondering if it was better or worse to cut the slots for the bearing motion all the way through the plywood panels, to possibly allow for cleaning every once in a while? Another question I have is how do you change the blade? I see your saw has a button operated spindle lock, which is similar to my makita 5705R I plan on using, and yours seem to be hardly if ever accessible when the saw is mounted. does it work to just pinch and hold the blade while tightening the retaining bolt?

great cosmas, this video inspired me to make these table saw

What the f is that suppose to mean you cant build without pantarouter...... And why the hell did you mention the name of the video ''simple tools'' while there are none ??...... dislike.

When can we expect Part 2 of this? I'd like to see the in-depth discussion on the tilting part. Thanks!!

Great design and well explained. Love your work!!!!!

Sad that You didnt show the electronic part of your saw. What kind of switch and cables to you need?

8:13 been watching primitive technology :D ? Hat's off for your table saw audacity, especially with the safety fuzz watching

Thanks for share your good work... Do you have the plans or templates...? Greetings from Mexico.

Measurements please

Great design, Can you provide the templetes or the measurement please

nice work...👍...can u provide us with dimensions file,, or if u have solidworks assembly for it..

Cosmas - the self-taught master of DIY tablesaw systems.

Thank you foe sharing this video, this is awesome.　I`d like to copy this tablesaw, so would you please let me know what thickness of Baltic plywood.

Wow. Good woork. Can i get a Technical drawings with measurements for this lift mechanisam? I am going to built this muself and it will be lot easier with technical drowings😊

really nice job! But, you need to add a divider knife, be careful of the kickback! sorry for my English...

Good job! Thanks for sharing... Just, please, be carefull with your hands. When you are using this outside down circular saw... Piufff !!!... just be carefull please. ..We want you to make more videos ok?

Fine work, i appreciate it very much but... You should pay more afention to your personal safety ex. using push sticks or push blocks, crosscut sled etc Sometimes your fingers are too close to the blade and that crosscut using the fence has big potential risc of kickback Take good care of your health 👍

Simple tools? Where? I see a drill press, festool jigsaw? And a router... Pls.

hello friend I'm from Uruguay, I loved your channel, a show the mountains, I'm going to make one, what a shame it is not only the Spanish language, I do not understand what it says, now I write in Spanish and translate with the google translator, I'm going to make that table just watching your video, but without understanding your language, thanks for your contribution

Here in California you just used almost 60 dollars worth of wood just on this saw motor holder. Wood here in this crazy over taxed state has more than double in price since I started woodworking 15 years ago. I am building one now so I can get a table saw with my own custom features. But I would spend less $ if I just just purchased one of the low end portable table saws.

birch plywood is very expensive in my country.... do you think that good quality pine plywood would do a good job for this???

Hi, can you estimate what is the weight of the whole thing? I want to do this with steel and industrial motor, which I guess will be like 3-4 times heavier. So far I plan on using lead screw 24x5 C45 or bigger C15, but I actually have no idea if it is enough and what will be.

Hello, I've got a little question. Making my own tablesaw and run into a bit of a pickle. How did you get your sawblade to be parallel to the carriage and perpendicular to the pivot axis? The video is great

How many table saws do you have? xD

It is better to go to a second hand source like a garage sale or estate auction, get a 3 horse or better motor and construct a real belt driven table saw from another video or upgrade a cheaper saw.

Hi, I’m halfway through my build. Did you apply any finish to the inner mechanisms? Im worried about any expansions or warping of the birch plywood over time. Many thanks

Oh dear God, crosscuts without sleds and pushing with bare hands. Someone is seriously asking for trouble. :( :( :(

I have made the lift already. But thought if the lift consisted of two blocks in serial on the threaded rod, both with a "link" and without the pin. I wonder if this would result in a saw lifting rather than tilting up. Thus allowing a riving knife. I may upgrade in the future.

Yes I was doing this way back in the 80s because my mom said I couldn’t have a tablesaw and I had an old circular saw and I made my own this in a new idea it’s been around forever

Здравствуйте уважаемые Космо Байер, пожалуйста поделитеь с чертежами станка вашего, распиловочного станка, с уважением ваш подписчик.

Can you provide templates pls

I hope I have those sipmle tools

Can you still use the spindle lock button on the circular saw?

Be carefull when using the improvised table saw it dosent have a spliting blade so you shouldt use your hands to push the wood it can be dangerous

Hello Inevitably is a wonderful work and well done The use of translation is a wonderful thing for other races is this true

How do you change blades? I tried something like this once with a Makita and the housing for the saw was messy to make room for my fingers to push in the locking lever.

Lol about the pantorouter. Very cool build! You're a better woodworker than I however please be careful. I got a little nervous watching some of your cross-cuts. Looking forward to seeing your next video!

So u need a pantorouter table to made this? Just joking. I think this design is worth doing, congrants! Do u have the plans or a sketch of all this? What do u think about mounting an induction motor with pulleys to drive the machine? Would it be able to handle the weight?

No I'm guessing I need to go spend about five hundred thousand bucks to build this $20 table saw wow. I guess he uses clickbait for people to watch his videos because I ain't seen a simple tool yet in the whole video.

Evet çok güzel mekanizma tebrik ederim

Привет! лайк однозначно ! Видео прям в тему для меня ). Хоть я и не понимаю по вашему ни слова ( но все понял по картинке ! только хочу уточнить шпильки .валы какого диаметра ?наверное 16 мм ? и подшипники какие если можно напиши пож..

Excellent work. Can i have plans for the work you have showed. Many thanks.

2:50 Thumbs up if you thought you needed a pantorouter. Looked up how much they were, before realising it was a joke.

Please... for the love of god - get a push stick...

Genial. Jetzt noch eine Schritt für Schritt Anleitung. Danke dafür. Daumen hoch. I Like :-)

Circular saws suffer from several problems. 1.) they are under powered 2.) they are direct drive 3.) In the US they are115 volts 4.) They have 7 1/4" blades thus limited depth of cut.

Merci beaucoup pour la vidéo

Broke the finished mechanism and made the same? 😆😆

Don't bother with the ACME spindle. We all know how things went for Wiley Coyote, and he used only ACME products.

Hello ... the project you did, what it does is make a lot of time ... and now thanks to you I see the way to do it ... would not you have the templates available with the measures of the mechanism and the structure itself? Greetings from Paraguay!

Can I get the dimensions and measurements for this workpiece and specifically remove the part of the code-fixing mechanism and I will be thankful to you and grateful to you

“But in reality...” because that’s not the space in which that type of RU-vid commenter resides haha.

Ciao hai pdf progetto con le misure? Grazie

What do you do with all these table saws, Cosmas? Have you got multiple homes?!

Please can I get the dimentions of this saw mount. I will be very greatfull for you

Made with simple tools! What a joke.

Are any plans with dimensions available. If so how ?

Plise give me size to make table saw.. thx

Shit! I don't have a panto router...I'm screwed...

Your construction is simplest for reproduce and precise in work, and many DIY-masters on their RU-vid-channels told that. Thank You and good luck!

Do you have a plan for this Saw Build ? The Saw ist Killer , i want have :D Perfect Little Saw

how many inches is the circular saw, greetings from Mexico

Dear Cosmas Bauer, First of all congratulations for the beautiful project, I have already shown your video to several Brazilian colleagues who, like me, are lovers of amateur cabinetmaking, everyone found their work excellent. I was looking for a solution like this for my cutting mechanism. I would like to know if you would detail more about the turning mechanism for 45 degrees, if possible explain how you defined the exact location should position the pivot of rotation in relation to circular saw. Already grateful. Jânsle Fernandes

Cosmas I just need to say that I have copied all your ideas and put them into practice with much more precision and a classier finish than you could ever wish for...after that I invented safe, sustainable nuclear fusion! Thanks for a brilliant and inspiring build which has allowed me to upgrade my own basic DIY table. I genuinely learned a lot. Thanks. Jim Noonan Btw. Bollerx to the acme thread disciples

Hello. not in such a complex design backlash saw?

trapezoidal thread spindle would be better

Cosmas thank you for sharing. I'm getting tired of living with my badly made homemade saw so i'll start a build like yours. But in your arrangement the ball bearings for the slide won't roll unless enough play so you could be safe just with a solid sliding guide. Please don't take as smart ass comment i've made several devices with this basic error? Regards. Peter

Cosmas, great video and awsome design. I'm trying to build it myself. But you didn't mention anything about the accuracy of the saw. How did you solve the problem of keeping the blade perpendicular to the surface of the table top and paralel to the vertical plane it goes up and down?

can you provide us the plans?

This is awesome. I really liked. This workbench. I dare to say that it is better than a lot of professional table saw that we have here in Brazil.

Good time! Please tell me the markings of the bearings.....?!?!

Hello Cosmas Bauer....May i know U'r e-mail...i have many question that i want to ask U....Thank U before....🙏🙏🙏

I want to build this. Where can I get a pantorouter?

Why did you use a cast iron bearing housing for the tilt mechanism but a plywood one for the depth mechanism? Why the different materials?

Da steh ich sehr wahrscheinlich alleine da ... aber ich find den pantorouter nicht so wirklich nützlich ... die schablonen muss man doppelt so gross herstellen damit man dieselben auch benutzen kann. Das ist nur so richtig nützlich ... wenn man solche arbeiten öfters hat ... und dann würde sich die anschaffung von einer cnc fräse schon rechnen. Außerdem sehe ich hier nichts was den pantorouter so wichtig macht ...

That is a really nice crank mechanism :) You need some wood gears to speed it up a bit! Thanks for the video :)

Very nice Cosmas. Do you need some sort of locking mechanism to hold the saw at the desired height, or does the threaded rod (with its steep pitch) resist rotating under pressure sufficiently well?

Sorry, Isn't there a block in the lift mechanism? Can With the vibrations the blade go down?

Cosmas hey, I'm also an amateur hobbist woodworker and I admire well done projects. My question is this. Do you get any clogging, due to saw dust, in the up and down mechanism holding the saw, that creates any problem. I got the idea because the fit has to be tight. I would appreciate your response. Ioannis Kassanis Athens.

Belo projeto de Serra circular de bancada. Parabéns pelo trabalho. Muito show!! Uma boa noite pra você e família. Abs brother. Falando de São Paulo Brasil. 👏👏👏🤘👊🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

puede compartir los planos amigo

How much did Matthias Wandell pay you to say that!?

hee Cosmas. when do you publish part 2 ?????

Hi, you have part 2 of "compact Table Saw, Blade Lift Mechanism" or the Tunions part?

ِGreat design ..... Any plans available???

Друг привет. Ты молодец. А где чертежи? Поделитесь пожалуйста.