Gut Shop Reorganization

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1 Preliminary ideas

My garage /shop is tiny, weighing in at 10′ × 19-1/2’. Recently I acquired a couple of tools and all of a sudden I’m running completely out of floo...

2 Planning layout

I finally sat down with a calculator and paper and figured out the layout I’ve been roughly organizing in my head. I also decided to permanently fi...

3 Workbench inspiration

I’m very tight on space. My original plan did not allocate room for a garbage can and only partially for dust collection. I think I’ve come up with...

4 finally creeping toward starting

I really need to make a table for the CMS because I have a bunch of house projects that will require it. I just picked up 5 sheets of 3/4 pine plyw...

5 design versus reality

Stupid tape measure. Always proving me wrong. I got my first box make and installed, which was for the CMS. I needed to get that thing off the floo...

6 Flip top planer done

Today I made some more progress. Got the flip top cabinet made for the planer. I designed the cabinet but made the support/table on the fly as I ca...

7 Stupid stupid stupid!

I had some free time this afternoon so I decided to make some drawers for one of my shop cabinets. I designed them weeks ago, carefully taking meas...

8 Drawers done

OK these mistake drawers retrofit into wood slides are finally done. I just need to lubricate the slides and fill the drawers up. I was going to si...

9 Superior dust collection

I have an old delta contractor saw. Underneath was a pan tilted about 45° to the back to let the dust drop and sort of keep it away from the front ...

10 flip top drill press

I’m exhausted. I built this over the past 2 days which is a day too long. I wasn’t sure about the height and had problems making it fit the swing t...