SawStop launched new tool cabinets designed to fit under their table saws.
There are two sizes – one with an 18″ width, and one with a 30″ width. Both SawStop table saw tool cabinets feature 4 drawers and 1 vertical drawer with pegboard panel.
The drawers have soft-close ball bearing slides with unspecified load rating, and a plastic top that can double as a work surface.
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The larger SawStop tool cabinet measures 32″ wide, and the smaller one measures 18″ wide. Both are 25-1/4″ deep x 31-1/2″ tall.
SawStop cautions that the 32″ cabinet will not fit underneath a saw equipped with the floating dust collection attachment or right-side inline router table, and the 18″ will not fit underneath a PCS with 36″ fence assembly that’s equipped with the same
The cabinet come with 4 swivel casters for improved mobility.
They both ship with (1) foam block insert, for customized storage to fit tools and accessories, (3) drawer liners, and (6) pegboard hooks (3 small and 3 medium) for the vertical drawer.
Price: $499 for the 18″, $699 for the 32″
ETA: January 2024
Discussion
I can see the appeal of something like this, but the price seems a bit steep. Personally, I plan to build my own out of plywood. When I have a chance. (And that’s exactly why I can see the appeal of a ready-to-go solution.)
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The “foam drawer insert” sounds neat, but a photo of what it looks like and how it can be used would be nice. Is it just a piece of Kaizen foam? Or is it more like pick and pluck foam?
It seems like the 18″ cabinet is designed to fit underneath SawStop table saws with a 36″ fence assembly, and the 32″ cabinet matches the 52″ table saws, with exceptions mentioned above.
According to the user manual, all you have to do is install the casters, which shouldn’t be much issue for tool cabinets of this size.
Robert
So does Sawstop have a patent on the soft-close ball bearing slides that won’t pinch your fingers?
I am a bit surprised they don’t have branded inserts to house extra cartridges and blades in style.
IronWood
I assume so, and also that they’re lobbying to make those features required on all cabinets, while suing to prevent anyone else from coming up with equally safe solutions. Those early SawStop antics will never sit right with me.
They look fine. But I already used my Jet to make one myself for a fraction of the price. That’s the beauty of owning a cabinet saw: I never have to buy overpriced shop cabinets…
Koko The Talking Ape
Soft close slides are widely available, at Lowe’s and the like. There are also soft stops you can use with ordinary slides. They look like a little spring-loaded rod that the drawer hits right before it closes.
Cristobal Figueroa
They are not commenting in serious manner and instead riffing on Sawstop patenting their blade stopping technology and then lobbying to try and get it made mandatory. They probably make snarky comments about Festool’s pricing, Bosch’s silly naming conventions, Packout only coming in Red, etc.
John
It seems like anything you put under a table saw will eventually get filled with fine dust.
ToolGuyDan
Remember that, and think about how your lungs are also functioning near a table saw, the next time you think, “It’s just one quick cut, I don’t need to wear a mask.”
Rob G Mann
Yeah, I have also planned to make plywood cabinets “when I get a chance.” I immediately clicked on this to see if I could get a turn key solution. I saw the price and decided that I’m still going to make them myself “when I get the chance.” 😂
Jared
I don’t own a sawstop, so obviously it’s not for me – but as a guy who has had to tell himself to stop inventing projects for himself, I appreciate the value in a turnkey solution.
I often have “great” ideas for “better than store bought” solutions… but I never seem to have time to get more than a fraction of them done.
Peter Unlustig
Yeah, good one. 👍🏾
Charles
Exactly this!
I have a sawstop saw and I love it.
But these cabinets are unsurprisingly overpriced.
Also I have a router lift in the outfeed table I should actually measure and see what could fit the idea isn’t bad
And I’m never going to get around to making them myself
Koko The Talking Ape
I haven’t seen a vertical drawer like that before. Interesting. It would save materials and hardware, because you could access tools from both sides. It wouldn’t collect dust either. It doesn’t need drawer sides to support the weight because even pegboard is strong enough along its plane, . It doesn’t even need a drawer front, maybe just a handle.
I wonder if it uses regular drawer slides?
Stuart
I have. I built something similar into my old workbench, but with Gladiator rail instead as of pegboard.
There have also been different cabinet implementations. This was an interesting one – https://14cyiuhvcgv.com/new-kobalt-41-toolboxes-with-slide-out-pegboard/%3C/a%3E .
Koko The Talking Ape
You used regular drawer slides? How did you attach the rail to the slide? Maybe you have a post about it?
Charles
Pretty simple just think of it as a one inch wide extra tall drawer
Stuart
Here, it looks like they used slides on the top and bottom.
What I did was mount slides to the sides of the workbench legs, as if they were attached to a deep drawer on the top and bottom. They were attached to a piece of scrap solid shelf material, and I mounted the Gladiator rails to that.
These days I might have looked for a more elegant way to do similar.
Rob
I have sawstop and as other have suggested just made this myself within a few months of getting the saw. The top section is a dear cabinet for a router table insert I put into the side table with drawers facing the front, router but storage on the backside. Certainly good to fill the unused space but can be done with $150 of plywood and $30 of slides. At a commercial shop maybe not worth the time but for a home gamer like me….
Ben
This was also my first thought. Space is at a premium in my garage. I have a router plate and lift installed there on my table saw. The space that’s left fits my crosscut sled and other jigs perfectly. Also, the dust collection branches right off the table saw’s with a blast gate.
It would take a lot more than a rolling cabinet to beat that space savings.
eddie sky
My neighbor’s Unisaw has a scrap shelf under his extension.
I guess Awstop isn’t making the sales numbers and “accessorizing”.
I want to know the gauge and where manufactured. And no locking mechanism? I mean some homes have shops and those “sawstop replacement cartridges” aren’t cheap (I would think this ideal for storing them). And black will show sawstopdust in seconds of use … I don’t care how good your dust collection is.
Pass.
Cristobal Figueroa
Considering you resort to childish name calling in reference to the brand I don’t suspect you are the target customer. 🤷♂️ Have fun using your neighbors Unisaw. Maybe you can start calling it the Eunoch-Saw since it lacks blade stopping tech. Joking of course….in actuality both SawStop and Unisaw make great machines. The constant un-original badgering of certain companies just gets old and does nothing to further useful discussion. At least get some new material instead of recycling the tired drivel that shows up in the comments section every time certain brands people love to hate get posts here.
Mikey C.
Seems like a missed opportunity to fill that vertical pegboard with sawstop doo-dad holders. The DIY cabinet under ours if filled with blades, brakes, wrenches, push sticks etc. I made a 3/4″ tall drawer on slides that has 10.5″ circles milled out of the top to hole four blades flat. Would have been cool to see something like that right under the plastic work top.
Jim
I built a cabinet similar to this for my Sawstop and modified plans from Kreg. I love the cabinet, it works great under my saw.