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Updated Shop Tour – Detailed

Since well before Christmas, I’ve been working on a background project.  Making my work areas more efficient.  In the couple of little projects that I’ve done since this Summer, I’ve realized that a few things needed to be moved to a better location.  Here is the results:
Main Workbench:

Rather than building a bench from scratch, I [...]

How Many Times…

How many times can one reorganize ones workshop?
I showed Kathy my newly reorganized workshop and she said ” 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 ?”  The real answer is probably much higher than that.
I found that I wasn’t using my sharpening station that I built in the garage because…well, it’s not in my shop.  In order to fit [...]

Shop Tour – Pictoral

I know, I know.  Finally he shows his entire shop.  Of course when you entire shop is less than 10′ x 16′ there isn’t much to show off.
First, here is my main work bench.  Someday, I may build my own from scratch but I wanted to get to work so I bought a bench kit [...]

New Project – Hanging Tool Cabinet

As I mentioned in several earlier post, I needed to build a tool cabinet to hold my hand tools for easy access.  Some secondary purposes including making some hand cut dovetails and use up some of the left over plywood that I had (yes, the tool cabinet would be better if it were solid wood [...]

Past Projects – Shop Cabinets

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 [...]

Under consideration – Workshop Change

As a woodworker, I am primarily self taught.  This means that, I’ve figured things out myself, watched videos/TV shows to understand techniques, and read books and magazine articles to understand additional techniques.  During all this, I’ve been (nearly entirely) focused on using power tools – table saws, bandsaws, hand power tools, jointers, routers, planers and [...]