Hello! Does anyone have any experience or reviews of the qcw table with legs and all? Stability? Would you purchase again? Any pros/cons. If don’t have qcw table what design did you use. Thanks for any response.
Awesome! Thanks for the info. The look of it makes me think it would be that way. I was hoping I was wrong though.
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DUDE. You parking your car on that thing?
My plywood order got put off a few days, thanks IRS, but I gotta get that tabletop sorted out this weekend for sure. Because I’m gonna get this machine any time now, right??? /s 
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I have it on heavy duty casters
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The QCW and Kreg bench is the only thing i regret buying, After i finish my new shop, I will be custom making my own bench and table. IMO it is not sturdy enough. pretty wobbly. and that is after all the extra bracing i did. I think the QCW is too flimsy for a foreman. might be fine for smaller models. My 2 cents
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Perfect, better to over do it than under do it. We think alike.
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So I made my own table. Full 4x4 corner posts, 2x6’s mortised and tenoned plus dowel bolts, 3/4" plywood gussets on all corners, custom welded adjustable feet. Spoilboard slides back to reveal rotary table and vertical clamp section (not accessorized yet)
Dimensions 68" wide (X) x 72" deep (Y)
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I’ve done some practice cutting. Rounding toolpath and an attempt at a wrapped moulding toolpath, but the moulding toolpath only wanted to complete each section at a time rather than taking off a 1/16 along the entire length at a time like the rounding toolpath. So I’m not sure how to change the toolpath strategy since I’m only using V Carve Pro not Aspire.
It takes about 10 minutes to go from the big table to the rotary including the probe settings
For that same money I got the elite JM, revolution, tool changer. tool setter, 220v spindle, and stiffy, so, you should not have any problems going over your limit. Order soon if you want the free dust boot. It saves you 80 sum bucks. and works with the ATC. as to the QCW I just do not like the way it wobbles. then again, I already have my table after selling my x50 JM.
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I guess it depends on how you intend to use it. I ran a basic cnc machine for 12 years in a school shop. In those 12 years 99% of the projects were done using just a V carve bit. I did experiment with dovetails vertically and made some cool boxes with just a 1/4" end mill. If you are intending to make money with it, the rotary in my opinion is not fast enough to pay for itself. However an ATC lets you save time changing bits freeing you up to pull cut parts from a jig and setup a new blank in my opinion. For me, its just a hobby.
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Its not finished but 4x6 legs, 4x4 apron, and on top its mounted to a mix of 8080, 4080 and 4040 extrusions. I need to space out the cross members and get the spoil board cut. I’ve just been lazy without a spindle.
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No choice for me, the ATC will be used all the time and I really like mine, I have a rotary as well but it only gets used once in a while, so far only for chess pieces. The ATC was a game changer for me.
Pat
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Your table looks fantastic, do you have any other photos? I’m getting ready to build mine which is for a journeyman.
ther are a bunch more pictures. I think you can find them from this link: https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/onefinitycnc/original/3X/f/2/f23f2f78a34a0a29b6b6a4bd4d1a8d39cf0eb27e.jpeg
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ok that did not work so here is a link to my original post about this table.
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I have journeyman on home made table and foreman on qcw legs. love the ease of qcw legs. both can shake a bit, just due to speeds i run stuff at(pretty fast). also, my spindle is a very heavy spindle.
i could steady it up by connecting legs, but i’ve not yet. I have created vacuum table on my setup and it works well for that. mine is top load, not bottom. i added 4x4 piece of mdf on top of slats. then cut grooves and holes for vacuum. now it has 2nd piece of mdf on top of that. all in all, the home made table takes up too much room in my opinion, and i’d get the qcw for just that reason alone. only on 3d and vcarves do i really see it shake. most of my cuts are on 4x4 ply and melamine. no issue with that. vacuum really helps hold down parts, but makes surface very stable and repeatable.
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If you are looking to purchase the QCW just for hold down your work piece, I would spend the money for the airweight system and get the Kreg table stand. I have the QCW for my Journeyman elite and not very useful and I just place on top of my Kreg stand.
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