With my potential changes to my shop coming up, I’m looking around the shop to see what I may need to do. In the mean time though, let’s take a few minutes and look at some of the shop cabinets that I’ve already built and am still using.
The first to talk about is a lower but large cabinet. When designing the cabinet, I wanted my Festool portable table (older version) to fit on top and have that surface be flush with the top of the table saw. It has several large equipment drawers that routers and saws are stored in. The smaller drawers are for router bits and other shop supplies. If I do wind up getting ride of the table saw (see previous post) I may convert the top to a torsion box for assembly and such.
The next are a pair of quickly built cabinets. One is for my drip press and it has drawers for various drill and sanding supplies. The other is a flip top cabinet which was originally for my planer and an oscillating sander. It still could flip but I found that it was more work to use it that way so I simply move the small equipment to a bench top to use. It’s still good for equipment storage.
I may have to remove some cabinets and rethink storage going forward. I certainly am going to need a new, full size work bench. That may be a good project for me too since it has a lot of joinery possibilities and is a project that can use hand techniques as well as power. I’ve really enjoyed the Renaissance Woodworker’s podcast covering the robo workbench design and construction.
