MFTC — the portable workshop

A folding worktable on wheels that carries your essential tools and moves like a hand truck. Stop working on the floor or on shaky sawhorses: bring a real workbench to every jobsite.

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Why it exists

Working in clients’ homes usually means improvising: the floor, makeshift horses, nothing at the right height. The MFTC was engineered to fix every one of those problems in a single design — 10 months of development and 2 full prototypes before the first plan was sold. Years later, it is still being built around the world, from Pittsburgh to Toronto to London.

What it does

• MFT-compatible top — same height and length as an MFT table, one row of 20 mm holes narrower so it fits through doorways and staircases. Use your bench dogs, rail dogs and clamps as usual.
• Folds to under 50 cm deep — stores against a garage wall, in a trailer or a van. Footprint of a folded jobsite saw.
• 4 Systainer drawers + accessory drawer, with push locks so nothing opens in transport. Use it as a rolling sysport in the van.
• Tool shelf with shop-vac bay underneath — dust extraction on board, and the weight makes the bench rock-solid.
• Folding extension tables (plans included): slide them into the T-track on any side. Both on one end = a table that supports a full sheet. With sacrificial top strips you can saw right into them — or turn one into a router table.
• Built-in rail storage — the weight-saving cutouts hold your guide rails; two 1400 mm rails slide inside the top for transport.
• Adjustable feet + perforated legs for vertical clamping, hooks for a battery charger, reinforced front so you can pull it into a truck bed.

What’s in the plan

• 50-page step-by-step PDF manual, with photos of every stage
• Dimensioned layout sheet for every part + cut list + material list
• Full SketchUp 3D model (opens in the free SketchUp viewer)
• Metric, adapted to imperial · Available in English, French, German
• Extension table plans included

Materials: roughly one sheet of 12 mm plywood, an MDF top, some solid wood and standard hardware (drawer slides, casters, hinges, adjustable feet, T-track). Builders report ≈ €150 in materials and about two weekends of work.

Tools: track saw or table saw, router, drill, jigsaw (required) · Domino joiner (nice to have) · planer, bandsaw, jointer, mitre saw, sander, brad nailer, pocket-hole jig (optional).

Builders speak

“Tim’s plans were excellent and the design/engineering is great.” — shop owner, Pittsburgh, USA — built three for his crew

“Extremely useful and mobile. I’ve gotten a ton of good reviews from customers and even turned a few other carpenters on to the design.” — carpenter, Massachusetts, USA

“We built two MFTCs and they happily work every day — we modified one with air-filled tires for rough ground.” — woodworkers, Toronto, Canada

“I’ve built an MFTC to these plans — it’s brilliant.” — builder, UK Workshop forum

Plumbers, general contractors and furniture makers run MFTCs daily. Popular user mods: added router-table extension, pneumatic wheels, Baltic birch construction. More builds in the gallery →

Good to know

• Print the templates at full size (not “fit to page”) — reference dimensions are printed on them so you can check.
• If you build the top in 18 mm material, consider slightly larger wheels set further back for easier tipping — a popular community tweak.
• The 20 mm hole pattern can be drilled with an LR32 system, a hole jig, or a CNC — the manual covers the manual method.

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