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I built a stand for my Porter Cable Portaband.

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Zeke

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Can't buy one for this model, you have to make it. Watched the video at Welding Tips and Tricks and then set out on my own.

It works and is nice and steady. That little bent square sits in a track or whatever you want to call it and holds the backbone of the saw.
 

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The pic is deceiving I guess. No provision for horizontal. I didn't even think about that.

I'm working on a small table but I really don't see the absolute need. If a piece to be cut were so small as to be unstable on the existing rest, I'd likely use a jig saw or something else.

Who knows? We'll see. Frankly, I use the Portaband more frequently as a hand held saw. Much easier to take the saw to the work than the work to the saw. But, even as I built the stand, there were a couple of cuts in the vice where the vice got in the way. And I would have gotten a straighter cut using the stand.

It's great to have it both ways.
 
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I like it, just needs a table now. Been meaning to do something like that for my portaband but it's on the long list of future projects!
 
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