Welcome to the MPT Blog! The MPT is a portable work table that I designed and built to fill the need for an efficient, shop-built table that is easily portable and works with a variety of accessories. Please visit my new site, danpattison.com for more information about the MPT as well as to purchase plans.
Here are some shots from the DP Shop Talk episode showing the MPT L-Boxx Worktop in action for a variety of common woodworking tasks. Click on any photo to enlarge it. Click here to watch the full episode on YouTube.
The MPT L-Boxx worktop can be used for a variety of common woodworking tasks such as drilling, routing, sawing or sanding. The convenient clamp anything anywhere setup allows all of these operations to be done easily and with both hands on the tool. It can also be used with stationary tools such as using it as a miter saw stand or table saw outfeed support. Similar to the MPT, Parf Dogs can be used on the worktop to create an accurate cross cut station for a track saw.
If you don't have a stack of L-Boxxes you can still use the MPT L-Boxx
Worktop by clamping it to any other workbench, table or even saw
horses. This gives you the same features and utility of the worktop
without the need for a full stack of L-Boxxes. Another alternative way to use the MPT L-Boxx Worktop is clipping it on top of a Bosch dust extractor to give an easily mobile work surface that will roll around with you. To purchase a full set of plans and instructions or for more information click here.
I have just finished designing and building a new MPT style worktop for use with Bosch or Sortimo L-Boxxes! This new worktop has the same system of 20mm holes as the MPT and therefore can be used for some of the same tasks with some of the same accessories. I've also created a full set of plans similar to the MPT plans. For jobs where you don't have space to set up the full MPT or jobs that are too small to require it, this is the perfect solution. Measuring 20"x24" it gives a generous sized worktop and is also solid with a bolted connection. The MPT L-Boxx Worktop is designed to mount to an L-RACK-S quickly and easily with no major modifications to the L-RACK-S. By using an L-RACK-S to mount the top to it gives space under the top to accommodate accessories, such as clamps or Parf dogs. The height of the worktop is adjustable by varying the number and combination of L-Boxxes that you use under it. It basically gives you a mini MPT that is extremely portable and can go along with you anywhere your L-Boxxes do. Click here to see the MPT L-Boxx Worktop in action.
The MPT L-Boxx Worktop allows you to clamp work down in the same way that the MPT does and use accessories like the Parf Dogs to make the worktop into a mini track saw cutting table. The worktop attaches to the L-RACK-S in seconds with 4 machine screws that are captured within the L-RACK-S so there is no loose hardware to keep track of. The hardware setup is all detailed in the plans as well as the precise location of the grooves that get milled in the bottom of the worktop to accommodate the nibs and locking cleats of the L-RACK-S. The worktop can be quickly uninstalled from the L-RACK-S and it can be used as a normal L-RACK-S with L-Boxxes clipped on top of it again since the mounting hardware does not interfere with it's normal operation. Here are a couple of quick Instagram videos that I made showing how the MPT L-Boxx Worktop works as well as a full DP Shop Talk episode showing it in detail.
