Cut-off saw sliding and floating shelf < Make it, Break it, Fix it

I was given a cut-off saw as a gift. The saw is very, very handy. But I have no where in the garage to put it!

Because I dont use it as frequently as my other tools and most of the use of the saw is in the preparation (ie. the saw is only under power for a brief period of time). I decided to make a sliding shelf for it so that it slides under my main bench while i’m not using it. This is my first project involving both wood and metal together, so it was quite exciting.

Design and planning the project took a while (I am not very good at either) but at the end it was executed fairly well with only minor adjustments needed along the way. All in all the shelf is very sturdy (I added additional brackets that you cant see in the pictures later on) and ive used it several times since installation.

: Design and planning. This took quite a while to do and im certain there is a much better and easier way of doing this. But im not too good in this part of the project and I lack brilliant ideas. Never-the-less, the shelf turned out nice

: Shown here are also pieces of metal I can use for the shelf. Also shown here is the saw.

: The shelf will be made to go here

: This is under the bench

: Another shot of where the saw will placed

: The metal ill be using

: Cuting the wood for the shelf

: Drill press is so darn handy! Im using my new drill press to make the holes in the brackets which screw in to the wood

: Brackets screwed in to the wood from below, so you dont see the screw heads from above

: hanging shelf brackets

: The wood with metal brackets will slide in and out for saw use

: At the time I didnt realise this, but the retiaining metal (top square tube) wasnt long enough to hold the shelf in place when it was slid out completely. This was fixed later