Having no clue what I was doing, I decided to use a hand-pushed circular saw that I borrowed from a friend. My first cuts were far from straight, so the table surface was all kinds of warped and the table itself was mega-wobbly. I devised a very time-consuming method to make straight cuts (clamping a 2x4 orthogonal to my cut, using the square to align it, and guiding the saw against that 2x4), but it was too late: This table was not going to be level by any stretch. That's okay, this table won't be a build surface. It will be for the drill press, bench grinder and band saw.
Here is a great video that I learned a lot from with respect to building these. I watched this a few times and even paused it during my own build. And these guys had a build marathon.
8 hours, 10 minutes. No joke. Took a while to learn how to use the countersink microstop and I did a lot of bit changing with the cordless drill. I put the wood glue on a few members, but decided it wasn't going to add much, so I stopped using it.
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