HokieKen's Messy Shop

I'm amid a shop reorganization at the moment but everyone is posting their shop tours so I wanted to get in on the action.  I wanted to wait until it was nice and clean but I figured what the hell, this is what it typically looks like anyway so I may as well be "honest" about it 😉

My shop is an oversized 2 bay garage.  There is a man door going outside and another that goes into my basement.  This first pic is from the outside man door.

As you can see, it's pretty crowded.  Normally the bins in the floor and the collapsible table in front of the bandsaw aren't there but like I said, reorganizing...

Moving inside, my wood lathe and bandsaw live on the wall with the bay doors. Needless to say, nothing travels through that bay door.  It's only opened when I need to clean behind the lathe.  You can't really see it but my dust collector is behind the bandsaw.  It's mobile and gets moved to wherever it's needed.

Behind the lathe sits my fliptop cart.  It has a grinder for sharpening lathe tools (covered with plastic) and a buffing machine (normally covered with plastic) on one side of the top and my planer on the other.

On the side of the cart, I added shelves for block planes.

In the center of the floor sits my workbench.

On the bottom I keep my hollow chisel mortiser, miter boxes and various odds and ends.

Behind the workbench is a mobile cart with my homemade belt grinder, spindle sander and a bench vise.  There are various other metal working bits hanging from pegboard on both ends and you can see a couple of planes sitting on a shelf on the bottom.  They were acquired after my till was full (like the two above that sit on my bench shelf).

In the front corner next to the man door that enters the basement is my sharpening bench, slop sink, and a floor full of various crap.

The man door holds my grinding belts.

On the same wall, looking back toward the other man door are a couple of toolboxes and shelving.  The red toolbox houses all of my mechanics tools.  The wood one has all of my marking and layout tools (that aren't machinist grade), screwdrivers, and combination planes along with some scraping and sanding tools.

On the other side of the man door is an industrial file cabinet that houses all of my hardware.  And some pegboard over it holds several different saws, drawknives, and other odds and ends that would hang on it.

Moving to the other side of the shop, looking from the back corner towards the front is my drill press and knee mill parked behind my workbench.  You can see my CMS on mobile stand parked at the right of the mill.  So far I haven't figured out a good place to park that SOB so it gets moved around a lot.

Turning and facing the back wall, my mobile lumber rack and a toolbox with my machinists tools. Yard and house stuff hangs on the back wall and on the shelf in the corner.

Turning and looking back towards the bay doors, table saw, router table, and my metal lathe.  The shelving in the corner holds all of my metal barstock, hand tools awaiting restoration/repair, and little-used stuff like my forge, toaster oven, glue pot, portaband, woodburner, etc.
Unlike the other bay door, this one gets used.  I roll my tablesaw and planer out into the driveway when the weather allows to keep the dust down in the shop.

Next to the lathe is my compressor cart.  It used to have a pancake compressor on the bottom shelf but when it died and I got the DeWalt, it became storage for miscellaneous metal. The lid lifts up and I have various pneumatic tools and couplings stored in there.

On the back of the compressor cart is clamp storage.  My parallel clamps stand in the corner next to the shelves by the bay door.  I intend to add a rack to the wall behind the compressor but haven't gotten around to it.

That's about the size of it.  Hope this makes you fell better about how clean your shop is!