David...Be careful not to get too much padding between the saw and the stand...Although some is needed, the purpose of mounting the saw in the first place is to make it more solid...When I designed this stand, I initially had the saw mounted on rubber bumpers between the saw and the stand...The thought was that it would isolate the vibrations caused by the saw from the stand, so the stand wouldn't try to "dance" around...BIG MISTAKE...After mounting it that way, I turned the saw on, placed a scrap work piece on the table, and watched it and my hands become a blur...It made my fingers kind of tingle...It was almost as if I had my own little earthquake factory...I then remounted that saw as you see in the picture of the plans, and as sp-343 stated, it's as solid as a rock.