A Hobbiest thinking and working with wood by hand and with machines.
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
